PapawSteve
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What's involved in running Linux on a Windows XP computer?
It is very easy.What's involved in running Linux on a Windows XP computer?
Next make a bootable CD/DVD or USB with the downloaded Linux image.
If you have a spare 5.25 bay, you're just missing a mobile rack, and you can keep your XP, install Linux on a SSD, plus have a blank hard disk for doing bare-metal backups!What's involved in running Linux on a Windows XP computer?
something that is essential here is to let you know that the downloaded Linux .iso must be burned to the optical medium or usb stick. using special software. it is not sufficient to make a bootable device and then just copy the .iso to it.
software that can be used for this purpose on windows include (for USB stick)
Etcher
Rufus
UNetBootin
unetbootin includes an option for Persistence, which allows for changes to be made on the stick and saved between boots. i understand Rufus also has that option now, but have not tried it.
HTH and welcome to the site
chris turner
wizardfromoz
Now that's funny. The ten to twenty step process to burn a CD/DVD.Going through the ten to twenty step process to burn a CD/DVD on XP I can live without....but then I'm a lazy newbie!
Send me $9 and I will burn any Linux distro you like to a DVD and mail it to you!Or if you're a lazy newbie like me, you can just buy a LiveCD of whatever version of whatever distro you like off Ebay for under $10. Going through the ten to twenty step process to burn a CD/DVD on XP I can live without....but then I'm a lazy newbie!
Hmm.Download ISOburn
Download SystemRescueCD
Download MX Linux or buy it from the guy in Denver
Get CDs
Burn the above ISOs
Prepare hdd with SystemRescueCD
Partitioning
Formatting
Set boot flag on / partition
(this will have to be done, any way you look at it and It's all in the manual here)
Install Linux [See Vrai's post re: BIOS]
SIMPLE! and only 7 steps!
Enjoy!
I never download and create a rescue disc.
What am I going to rescue I haven't installed the Linux distro yet.
A successful end result is the goal no matter what method used.
+1 poorguy!
Download ISOburn
Download SystemRescueCD
Download MX Linux or buy it from the guy in Denver
Get CDs
Burn the above ISOs
Prepare hdd with SystemRescueCD
Partitioning
Formatting
Set boot flag on / partition
(this will have to be done, any way you look at it and It's all in the manual here)
Install Linux [See Vrai's post re: BIOS]
SIMPLE! and only 7 steps!
Enjoy!
Let's go back to basics, because everybody has given an opinion about what Linux, what media, and have assumed that your computer is a low end rock.What's involved in running Linux on a Windows XP computer?