Hello all
i need to install linux flavor ubunto or sentOs not GUI is needed the only
problem is that in my home computer im using win2k ( don't ask my wife don't want to hear about Linux )
so i guess i stuck with installing some kind of virtual pc and install on top of it the Linux
what do you recommend me to do ? what the best virtual pc ? and free ?
also i have old pc p3 1g ram ..
thanks for help
vmware server
does it work on od pc like my ?
You're in trouble. The Pentium III runs virtualization software very slowly. VMware will run, but slow. Go download from vmware.com and see for yourself.
Personally, I would add another HDD and install Linux on it. You're wife may object, but, it is a very good solution. Install a lightweight GUI (XFCE, AfterStep, etc) and see it fly. Install something a little heavier, gain more functionality, but, at a major perfomance cost (GNOME and KDE are usable on a P3 700MHz, I'm doing it now.)
You have plenty of RAM to be able to run a GUI for Linux, or run Linux in a Virtual Machine. Your processor will run it either way, just slowly in VMware.
Or just a VMWare player will be fine if you simply want to use the pre-built VM images. As for performance, if you are running Linux GUI desktop, I don't think performance will be acceptable on PIII.
i RECENTLY INSTALLED mEPIS 7 ON A PENTIUM 3 for my daughter. She says that it runs way better than windows did, and she is using it regularly. Mepis 7 is quite up to date, and fujll featured. I would suggest that yuou just install it on the same drive with windows If that drive is big enough. Check in windows by looking at Start - My Computer - drive c: -and look at properties. That will tell you how big the drive is, and how much space is left on it. If you are only using less than half of your drive c: then install Mepis 7 on the other half. Mepis 7 comes as a free download "iso" file, or you purchase the disk for about $5.00 and boot from you CD drive. after booting, you can click on the install icon, and install it. Just follow directions. What you want is to install it as a dual boot system. Afterword Mepis will ask if it should write to the MBR. You should let it. It will find windows,and set up you hard disk so that when you boot it will give you a menu at start up so you can use either windows or Mepis.
There's an even better way using VMware, or Virtual Box (I prefer virtual box), but you don't want to irritate the wifef:).
Before you start do a search on google using windows, with a line like this:
windows 2000 linux install "dual boot" tutorial
That should give you access to several tutorials on the subject which you can print out and have them before you while you work. If you can find one on Mepis 7, great, but most such installations are very similar. even if it is a tutorial on installing Debian or Ubuntu, the steps are going to be similar.
Sonshyne5
Or simply run Linux from a bootable "live" CD. Most distros make one available these days.
interesting topic, but has anyone tried cooperative linux?
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Cooperative Linux... Is it the former Topologilinux?. If so, it's great: it runs truly fast, you can choose real Linux boot. I loved it. The bad side is installing it, in my opinion: It is Slackware based and it is not too friendly for a common user. More, I had to install it "twice": first, a real install, and later set it up running from Windows.
What I wonder is why can't you simply make a dual-boot install, so that your wife can boot win and you can boot your preferef OS?
Rebooting in the middle of something might not be an attractive option (although Windows users have to reboot all the time for other reasons, of course).
Recommend either setting up dual boot Win / ubuntu. If you want to run linux or ubuntu from within windows then either vmware workstation or
wubi world accomplish this. VMware workstation would require some additional learning how to use it and also requires xtra memory. Wubi is a ubuntu image that runs within windows. Setting up a dual boot system is easy and usually the better choice
XUbunut and be done with it