nxg Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Afaik Ubuntu currently doesn't have the write support out of the box,but you just need to find the.deb package for it (not dure of the nameright now). But keep in mind that writing to NTFS is still experimental.If you reliable write support you stioll need (to buy) the paragon ntfs drivers(if i recall the name right).The Ubuntu live cd is btw. only good for testing the distro, not really for"everyday" use, for that knoppix and the derivates do a far better job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_cinder Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I think Mandrake (Mandriva now FTW) is a good middle ground. Gentoo is too much of a pain in the @ss for the average user, technically versed or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Mandrake, SuSe, and Debian are my favorites although SuSe 10 is being difficult for me right now, but im pretty much a noob so its probably my fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidius23 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 ok im just about a liniux virgin. i mean i have done stuff with it but have never gone all the way. is Ubuntu good for me i just wanna get into linux with having to find to many special drivers or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_cinder Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 No matter what distro you go with, theres always the possibility you may have a piece of hardware that isn't properly supported out of the box.Mandrake 8, I had to build my own kernel module for my video card in order to use X because none of the provided modules worked right..........I hadn't the slightest f'ing clue how to do that, but after a couple days (Yeah I know days sounds disturbing) I managed to build my module properly from driver source. Don't ever get frustrated and give up, it's a learning experience that you'll be proud of when you do get it. I know I was jumping up and down when I finally got KDE fired up and installed Quake 3 and it all went off without a hitch. Dual booting Windows REALLY comes in handy here for 2 reasons. #1 You can hop online and find the info you need to learn #2 You can hop on Windows and say "F*** it!" for a little while and then go back to it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxg Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 ok im just about a liniux virgin. i mean i have done stuff with it but have never gone all the way. is Ubuntu good for me i just wanna get into linux with having to find to many special drivers or anything.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ubuntu is very recommend for beginners, especially because ofthe Debian package manager. Not everything will work out ofthe box, but for the most things you will find.deb (Debiaqn package)somewhere. And even if you run in trouble, the Ubuntu community isgreat for beginners, as I heard and read you can get an answer toevery question without being labeled as "n00b" in every second post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 ok im just about a liniux virgin. i mean i have done stuff with it but have never gone all the way. is Ubuntu good for me i just wanna get into linux with having to find to many special drivers or anything. Ubuntu is very recommend for beginners, especially because ofthe Debian package manager. Not everything will work out ofthe box, but for the most things you will find.deb (Debiaqn package)somewhere. And even if you run in trouble, the Ubuntu community isgreat for beginners, as I heard and read you can get an answer toevery question without being labeled as "n00b" in every second post.Well, good thing I have a FAT32 partition for Ubuntu, so I'll have no NTFS worries.So I looked at the download page.. if I'm on an Intel Pentium 4 file system, what ISO do I want to download? http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu-releases/5.10/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxg Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 ok im just about a liniux virgin. i mean i have done stuff with it but have never gone all the way. is Ubuntu good for me i just wanna get into linux with having to find to many special drivers or anything.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ubuntu is very recommend for beginners, especially because ofthe Debian package manager. Not everything will work out ofthe box, but for the most things you will find.deb (Debiaqn package)somewhere. And even if you run in trouble, the Ubuntu community isgreat for beginners, as I heard and read you can get an answer toevery question without being labeled as "n00b" in every second post.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, good thing I have a FAT32 partition for Ubuntu, so I'll have no NTFS worries.So I looked at the download page.. if I'm on an Intel Pentium 4 file system, what ISO do I want to download? http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu-releases/5.10/<{POST_SNAPBACK}> You need x86/i386. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 ok im just about a liniux virgin. i mean i have done stuff with it but have never gone all the way. is Ubuntu good for me i just wanna get into linux with having to find to many special drivers or anything. Ubuntu is very recommend for beginners, especially because ofthe Debian package manager. Not everything will work out ofthe box, but for the most things you will find.deb (Debiaqn package)somewhere. And even if you run in trouble, the Ubuntu community isgreat for beginners, as I heard and read you can get an answer toevery question without being labeled as "n00b" in every second post.Well, good thing I have a FAT32 partition for Ubuntu, so I'll have no NTFS worries.So I looked at the download page.. if I'm on an Intel Pentium 4 file system, what ISO do I want to download? http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu-releases/5.10/ You need x86/i386.Ah, what's the difference between the Live version vs. Install version?Oh and, is there any tutorials available (link please) to install Linux on a FAT32 partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxg Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 (edited) Ah, what's the difference between the Live version vs. Install version?Oh and, is there any tutorials available (link please) to install Linux on a FAT32 partition?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Live version is the Live CD, it boots directly from the CD without the need to install.That's good if you want to test it.The install version is the install CD ( ), just boot it and it shows you what install modes you can use(Normal install and Server install).For the install on FAT32, try it out if it works out of the box it shouldn't be to hard to do,I don't have any tut in mind for doing that. Edited March 17, 2006 by nxg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tynvar Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Try the Live versions first. For Ubuntu you can download it from their site. Knoppix has a live CD too, it's very similar to Mandriva so you could test it out how it looks before you install. Mandriva to me seems like middle ground between Windows and MacOSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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