I bought a brand ew PC to install linux. I want to get experience with linux and oracle on linux, as well as set up a static machine on the internet for remote access and testing. Soooo, the PC is an HP Pavillion a530n (2Gz, 513MB 200G humma humma) comes preloaded wth XP HOME.
First problem was the partitioning was NTFS, which microsoft makes vendors put on the PC - to make it difficult to add an OS! I have a copy of partition magic, nothing seemed to allow you to resize an NTFS partition. I found a linux reference on the net to systemrescue which let you resize the ntfs partition - woo hoo! I did it, and when i rebooted - windows was gone - no os found. Dead in the water. Lesson: backups and copies of system hardware should be done via windows.
So, I pressed on - abandoning the dual-boot option I installed RH Enterprise Linux from CDs I got at Oracle Open World. After setting the resolusion to high for my monitor; the second full install went fine. Then, I discovered my network card was not detected - bizarre since KOPPIX detects it. There seems to be no easy way to detect the card.
I have a DVD of Fedora Core 3 - giving that a go.
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