Re: Newbie Questions

Timothy Brooks wrote ..
Hello,

I am about as new as they come. I have downloaded Fedora and am about
to
install. I have a Windows 98 machine and am not sure if I want to set
up a
dual boot or just put Fedora on this computer. It is an older machine
(500MHz, 128 RAM) but I would like to see what Linux/Fedora is like. What
would you recommend?

Not really a recommendation, but I usually run windows and linux on different hard drives.

Dual boot is not all that difficult. If you have only one hard drive and that drive has only one partition (if you know what that means), I would recommend just running linux for simplicity.

If you have only one hard drive and it has only one partition (which windows always does), get a second hard drive or partition the drive. Partitioning a drive usually results in the data on the drive being lost. I've heard you can repartition without loosing data, but I never tried it.

My STRONGEST RECOMMENDATION is to have 2 computers one linux and one windows so you can keep your windows system running in order to get email and get help from this email list if you have troubles installing/running linux. That is, until you are comfortable with Linux.


I need some instructions on installation of Fedora from a hard drive.
The
instruction with Fedora are too limited for me. Can someone please direct
me to a more detailed source.

I think you should burn the images to a CD and install from CD's. I honestly wouldn't try it any other way.



Do I need to burn the .iso files to CDs? I understand you cannot just
copy
these files, that they need to be copied as .iso images, correct? What
does
what I just said mean? Copy as an "image". Is there a setting in my CD
burning program that I need to use?

Most windows CD burning programs will recognize a ISO image file and automatically configure themseles to write the data to a CD. Programs like Nero running on windows can do this.



I think these questions help the group understand my level, which is very
Newbie.

We all started somewhere. Congratulations on at least starting.



Does Fedora have programs with it? Does it include a browser or program
to
check email? Word processing? Or will I need to find Linux software for
this computer?

Linux comes with so many programs you won't know what to do with it all. Typically, firefox is used as the web browser and OpenOffice is my personal preference for office programs that come with Fedora linux. Both of these can also be run under windows.

Also included are development tools, games, and multimedia for listening to music and watching movies.



Sorry for the simplicity of my questions but as they say, you need to start
somewhere.

Thank you for any direction.

Tim Brooks

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