[clug-talk] Need Help Installing Linux

[Shawn]

I went through this exercise a short while ago.

First, you'll likely need to repartition your drive to make room for one or 
more Linux partitions.  For myself, I just wiped the drive, created my 
partitions, then installed XP with my laptop recovery CDs.  Windows was 
installed to the first partition.  

Next, I installed Gentoo into the other partitions, and used grub as my 
bootloader - with an entry for Windows, and for Linux.  Works fine.

That said though, you may not want to do Gentoo for the first time in this 
type of situation.  Gentoo can be tough to get right the first few times 
(AWESOME documentation though, which really speeds up the learning process).  
And laptops require some special attention, and can be challenging to get 
everything running right (my sound, wireless nic, and power management still 
aren't quite right).  If it's a practice box, go for it, but if you need this 
to be operational asap, I'd recommend another distro (Ubuntu maybe?) that 
does a better job of automagically finding the hardware.

My thoughts.

Shawn


On Friday 09 September 2005 13:07, Michael Lauzon wrote:
> This is upon my purchase of a laptop, it has Windows XP which I want
> to keep so the laptop will dual-boot WXP and Linux using LILO.
>
> I am interested in Gentoo Linux.  If anyone can help please let me know.