Forum: Installation

Hi, I had Windows Vista and Suse linux 10.2 on my machine. While trying to install the Suse linux 11, i encountered some error and was not able to...

Just wondering if anyone had any experience using Linux on the MSI Wind NB. The version that comes with Linux (SUSE I think) also comes with a...

Heya! Short story: I installed Debian yesterday, latest version on my laptop. I had previously tried Slackware 12.1 which worked perfectly, but I...

Some one gave me an older Windows machine and I had to put a hard drive into it. It is formatted and partitioned with nothing on it. I plan on...

Hi, I want to get Step by step information of installation of RHEL 5 in a computer which already has windows xp in C drive and having 4...

Trying to install something from source and configure stops and suggests I should add the *.pc file of some package to PKG_CONFIG or something...

hello everyone, my first posting to this forum, hope someone can assist me. I am running a desktop m/c, with tower in which I have 3 separate hard...

I'm having trouble installing either grub or lilo onto a ProLiant server. I'm hoping someone has seen this problem and maybe has a simple answer. ...

ok, I know this has been beat into the ground on these forums. I have been one of the people replying to the newbie questoins at one time...but i...

I'm having difficulty getting java programs to install by source code. I believe I have all the java requirements as this is what I get when I run...

I have four HDDs in my machine -- sda, sdb, sdc, sdd -- and I'd like to install Fedora onto a logical volume extending over most of sda and sdb. I...

Hey all, I'm looking for any opinions or feedback you may have about this particular topic... I just graduated college with a B.S. in Computer...

Right now I have a computer with just Windows XP on it and I want to make a live usb stick with Debian on one partition (live install), a knoppix...

Hi all Iam new to linux I have these partition on my Windows operating system:- (c) primary disk of ntfs file system (d) logical disk of ntfs...

I want to install Linux on a 300mhz Pentium II which has 2 hard drives. I am using Red Hat 7.3 installation cd's. When the screen to partition the...

Hello, I originally used Slackware back in the day and then Redhat, before it went commercial. My job changed where I mainly had to use AIX, so I...

Hello Over time, my system has morphed into a rather complicated arrangement, which I'd like to simplify. Any help would be much appreciated! ...

Hello, I have a slightly complicated situation in that I would like to install backtrack 2 or backtrack 3 which is essentially slax, to another...

I'm trying to get my computer to boot from a usb flash drive even though the BIOS doesn't support it (even with bios flash and directly from GRUB)....

I have an Acer Aspire laptop with a measly 60gb HD partitioned into 10gb Windoze and 50gb data. I bought a 80gb USB drive and installed PCLinuxOS and...