Which version of Linux to use

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Originally Posted by gore

It won't usually find what it tries to download, and then makes the driver. Start X again and use Sax2 if you wanna look at the configuration with 3D. Should work fine as Nvidia supports UNIX OSs. I have had problems with some cards, but most of them work by just doing that. Older cards may need the older vesion of the driver. Just read which ones are supported in which version of the driver and find yours.

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shortly after I posted, I found lots of pages describing the process. It did mention sax2 to get _all_ the features working. Im using legacy drivers.

BTW, I have an old...old copy of Suse. It is version 6.2 and the USA store package has 6 cd's or dvd's in it. Is it worth anything on Ebay?

Thanks for the info. I don't have it installed on anything right now, but I still have the installer on a cd, so maybe I'll give it another try sometime. I may dual boot it on my desktop after I finish doing some other stuff on it.
KP

Since some of you have been asking about installing and seemed worried about it, I've decided to dig up the tutorials I wrote for doing that very thing.

I haven't written one in some time now, and the installers HAVE changed since then. However, the installation is still very much the same for most of these distros.

I know OpenSUSE 11 is basically a live CD, and to start that install you'd just double click on the Icon saying Install, and it starts it up. For the most part you won't have any issues doing it.

Windows is actually harder to install than Linux, and Linux actually has a better GUI for the installers unless it's Debian or Slackware in which case it's text based like most of the Windows install is.

Here you go:

Installing NetSecL:

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=276698
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Installing Vector Linux 5 -

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=268140
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Dual booting Debian and Windows:

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=266065

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Installing SUSE 9.1 Professional -

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=256428

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Installing Slackware 10.1 -

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=264511
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Dual booting FreeBSD and Slackware Linux-

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=262097
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Installing Trustix -

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=257866
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Basic Slackware installation :

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=258140
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Installing and dual booting with, SUSE Linux 9.1 Professional, and Windows XP-

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=258363
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Installing FreeBSD -

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=256949
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Instaling Libranet -

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=251791
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Once you have SUSE installed, this is how you could set up an FTP server on it which would first, give you a way of doing back ups to a central location, and second, teach you how it works:

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=260371

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=260371

Nice, gore. I didn't realize you had written that many.

So another point for linux. I was dreading installing a printer on my wife's laptop (running Ubuntu 8.10) so I looked around for drivers for this particular printer before I even started. Turns out that was unnecessary, because five seconds after I plugged it in and turned it on, the laptop recognized the printer! Everything works man...printing, scanning, and of course copying. I was slightly blown away.

I've written way more than that. I just posted the ones I found first heh. I've written a crap load of those things, but some were really old and wouldn't help anyone right now unless they had an old OLD version they wanted to install, so I skipped those, and I also skipped a few that were re-writes or just "updated" versions that included new stuff if one of the installations had changed or something.

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Originally Posted by gore

I've written way more than that. I just posted the ones I found first heh. I've written a crap load of those things, but some were really old and wouldn't help anyone right now unless they had an old OLD version they wanted to install, so I skipped those, and I also skipped a few that were re-writes or just "updated" versions that included new stuff if one of the installations had changed or something.

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Gore.

If you wouldn't mind, but could you add them all to this thread:>
http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=277827

I had a few links bookmarked, but since the upgraded moved stuff around i cannot find 'em. :(

:)

Yea, I can grab more and put them in there. The other stuff I did was either installation based or using it once it was installed.

I also did a thing for Vi. It was a short one on basic usage for people who were trying to figure out why it just beeps at them when they type.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khdCINnt2kQ

Just check the enclosed instruction book.

im still lookin for the right linux for me. just found sabayon linux and it looked promising. guess ill be on the scene for awhile :(