[NBLUG/talk] dual boot beginner

[Lynn]

So I took the advice and went for a newer distribution.  I bought 5 
disks of suse 9.1 pro.  I stuck in the #1 cd after running scandisk, 
defragmenting the drive and running suse's memory check.  Things went 
very smoothly, the hard drive was repartitioned (shows up on fdisk as 
being changed anyway and my windows 98se now has 5 of a 10 gig hd. But, 
the package load returned errors on 47 of the packages and the installer 
would never allow me to do the configuration phase.   I tried 4 times to 
do the install using the repair tools that came with the disks but the 
installer would never complete the process.  One of the installs said 
there was no /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and other times it just said 
unable to complete install.  My small experience with linux is from when 
red hat 7.2 was brand new and my experience then was that I never had 
any problems with the linux install.My problem  was  trying to get the 
windows and linux to get along on the same drive and configuring linux 
to dial out  or some such thing.  What does this sound like to anyone 
that would care to respond?  My guess is a faulty install disk. That 
guess maybe just me not wanting to admit defeat.  I bought the disks 
online from a place called " love of scents/pcTech101"  and they cost me 
9.99.  Thanks....Lynn

Nat W. wrote:

>Fedora has what I think is the easiest partition resiser, but you have read
>the directions, not just click away. (yay for impatient clickers such as my
>self :p )
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>-Nat W. 
>http://www.pseudoweb.net
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>From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
>Lynn
>Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 3:12 PM
>To: A'fish'ionado; General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to
>questions,etc.
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] dual boot beginner
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>Which distro do you recommend for a newbee-friendlyness? .... Lynn
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>A'fish'ionado wrote:
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>>>Best to go with a recent version of Linux: Fedora
>>>Core 3, Mandrake 10.something, SuSE 9.2 or Debian "Sarge". You'll
>>>have a much better experience with any of those. And the
>>>installers are better, too.
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>>Much as I love Debian Sarge :-) it doesn't have a newbie-friendly
>>partition resizer (AFAIK).
>>
>>William
>>(Running Debian Sarge...)
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