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What is Linux Selecting A Linux Distribution

Beginners Level Course: What Type of Installation

What type of installation should I do? (Dual Boot / Live CD / Fresh Install / Virtual Installation)

One of the things that makes Linux special is that it c anplay nice with other operating systems. You can run

Linux alongside of other operating systems quite easily. The most popular installation process for installing Linux is

to install aFresh Installation of Linux with no other operating system in place. This allows the computer to

dedicated 100% of its resources to running Linux. However, it is quite easy to install Linux as a one of a series of

operating systems that a computer has available to it.

Here are the most popular ways to install/run Linux on your computer

Dual Booting - If you want to keep an existing operating system, and install Linux as well, you will have what is

known as a "dual-boot" system. That means that you have a PC that can use two different operating systems, and

during the boot process you will need to decide which one you would like to boot into.

Authors Note: Dual Booting between Windows and Linux is becoming somewhat less popular due to the rise of

Virtual Machines. If you like the idea of running two operating systems, then you may want to consider running Linux

as a VM inside of another operating syst em instead.

Live CD/DVD Booting LinuxIf you are just looking to try Linux out to see if you like it, but don't want to commit

to wiping out your main operating system, you may want to consider trying Linux from a "Live CD/DVD". Many Linux

installations provide the option of downloading and running Linux as a "Live CD", which means that Linux runs as a

completely bootable operating system from the CD/DVD. The files are loaded into your computers memory,

rather than being run for a hard disk drive. In layman's terms, this means that you can run Linux from a CD/DVD, and

then when you reboot your PC, and remove the CD/DVD, it will boot back into its old operating system without any

difference to your PC. This gives you an easy way to try out several distributions of Linux until you find the one that

you like!

Using a "Live CD/DVD" is also a popular method of rescuing files from a corrupted operating system, more on this

later...

Linux as a VM inside another Operating System If you like your current (non-linux) desktop operating system,

but would like an easy way to access a Linux desktop or run your favorite open source software, you may want to

consider running Linux as a VM inside another operating system. There are a number of ways to do this, but one

simple one would be to download and install a Virtual Server application, and then install your Linux distribution

under that host software. This topic is covered in the more advanced t utorials on this website I think that I

should pause here and say that eve rything that you can do with yourother operating system, you can do with

Linux. That means word processing, databases, spreadsheets, Internet browsers, e-mail, photo touch-ups, MP3, CD

Players, cameras and then there are a lot of th ings that Linux has to offer on top of all that that ot her operating

systems don't.

Fresh Install of Linux This method is by far the most popular installation method available. In this approach, y ou

take the plunge and format your computers hard drive and install Linux from a CD/DVD. Linux then runs as

your computers only operating system.

What Type of Installation

Author: Linux.org Admin

Publish Date: 05/03/2012Last Updated: 05/25/2012

Categories: Basics, Installation

Beginners Level CourseBeginners Level Course

What is Linux?

1. Introduction To Linux

2. What is Linux

How To Install Linux

1. What Type of Installation

2. Selecting A Linux Distribution

3. Installing Debian

4. Configure Your PC to Boot from the

CD/DVD drive

5. Starting An Actual Installation

6. Partit ioning Hard Drives In Linux

7. Installing the Linux Kernel

8. Completing The Installation Process

9. Basic Linux System Configuration

Working with Software/Programs

1. Installing New Software Programs - Debian

2. Installing New Software Programs - Red

Hat

3. Installing New Software Programs -

Slackware

Fundamental Linux Knowledge

1. Getting Around In Linux Directories

2. Basic Direct ory Struct ure of Linux

3. In Linux, Everything is a File

4. Day to Day with Linux

5. MAN Pages & Useful Information

Working with Disks, Drives & Files

1. Linux File Syste ms

2. SWAP Partit ion

3. File Permissions - chmod

4. File Permissions - chown

Great Linux Commands

1. Useful Commands - For System

Administration

2. Useful Commands - The 'mkdir' command

3. Useful Commands - The 'rm' command

4. Useful Commands - The 'cp' c ommand

5. Useful Commands - The 'mv' command

6. Useful Commands - Even More!

7. File Backup (tar/zip/gzip)

8. Cool Shortcut s

9. Using 'Pipes' in Linux

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