[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

[Nick Johnson]

Yah guys, everything is working fine with the cd and the partitions, but the
only problem that is persisting is that my mouse no longer works...

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:

> In case for some reason some things still don't work with the linux
> partitioner, defrag and scandisk in windows, then try it again.
> Some linux software may not be able to handle a badly fragmented drive.
>
> If that still doesn't work get partition magic(in windows) and create an
> Empty partition by shrinking down the windows partition, do not move it!
> To be on the safe side try rebooting into windows to make sure everything
> still works, some older versions of windows may freak out and start
> scandisk
> after resizing the windows partition, let scandisk do its thing. If windows
> is still working after all of this then take your linux cd and boot from
> it.
>
> When the installer gets to the partitioning you "should" see an option for
> installing linux to an empty partition. Install to the empty partition and
> things should take off and install.
>
> The above was derived from many, many screwed up linux installs I've done
> Over the years. Before I found this group everything I did was by trying it
> to see if it worked, if it didn't I got to format and reinstall everything.
>
> Also it would be better to have another computer to try linux on because if
> you mess something up you don't have worry about saving your windows
> install.
> One last thing you could try, Microsoft virtual pc, it has the ability to
> mount the iso directly. That eliminates the problem of trying to burn a
> disc. Hope this helps...
> -dh
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Todd Walton
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:25 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Which Distro is best?
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
> <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> > Do you have a full backup of your system?
> > Have you tested that the backup actually works?
>
> Just to return to the big picture: the backup is "in case".  It's very
> unlikely that you'll screw up your Windows partition.
>
> -todd
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