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Getting Back to Linux

26 October 2006

Find out about one person’s effort to learn Linux and make the switch from Windows.

Linux and Packages

19 April 2006

Using Kpackage, the package management GUI software that comes as part of KDE is pretty straight forward. It doesn’t take much time to get the feel of it and learn how to find available packages and install them. Different from Windows, Linux installs generally display a lot of info about dependencies, which files are going [...]

Step-By-Step Linux Install

18 April 2006

I’m going to use this post to document each step along the way as I learn Linux.  I’ll put links in this post to other posts that have more detail on each particular issue or problem.  I’ll also include a ‘To Do’ list of specific capabilities I want to include in my Linux setup and document [...]

Setting Up a Swap File

18 April 2006

For some reason during the install, the installer didn’t find the swap file even though I had repartitioned my drives before I started the install and created a 512MB Linux swap file.  I followed the instructions on this forum page to set up the swap file.  Specifics that I did:

Debian: fdisk /dev/hdb [this starts fdisk [...]

Getting the Correct Video & Monitor Settings

18 April 2006

As I briefly mentioned another post (The Basic Install), I had to make several attempts at installing the KDE and the windows-system-core packages.  Each time that they installed, I was queried on video and monitor settings.  For the first couple of times, I selected VESA as the monitor option, because my monitor/video setup said it [...]

The Basic install

15 April 2006

I downloaded the Debian install DVDs from Debian.org.  See my other post for details on how to download the DVDs.  Before starting the install process, I made two new partitions - one Linux and one Linux swap.  I use BootItNG so I was able to make the partitions before starting the install.  If you don’t [...]

Learning Linux - Which Distro?

15 April 2006

I’m an advanced user of Windows who wants to take the plunge to see how Linux works. I’ve played around with it a bit before, but haven’t really gotten a firm handle on how it works. After trying a couple of different Linux distros, either using Live CDs or actually installing to a hard drive, [...]