Difference between revisions of "How to Install Linux on your PC"

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Depending on if you have an old Pc or new one there are 32-bit & 64-bit. Most linux distro have both, find out what your computer runs at. You can go to linux.com, or d navigate to downloads. There you'll find many distro of linux. Download which ever seems fitting for your pc. Some distro's are in mirror files. Ubuntu however is not.

Ubuntu is still one of the most widely used Linux Distro!. The community is very welcoming and will help with any problems, so we will take it as an example to start.

Steps:

1- Download the distro
You can use this link to download Ubuntu.

2- Either burn the ISO file of the distro to a disc or USB boot.

3- BOOTING LINUX
- CD
There are many free ISO burners on the internet. Just download and install one. (you can use cdrtfe for free as it is an open source softoware).
Onces installed, Run program, burn ISO to your disc. If you do this part right you will simply shutdown your computer with the disc in the CD-ROM drive Restart and run the disc. There is an option to run from disc or install.

- If you need to USB boot the OS (Linux)
You must format the USB drive to a fat32 to boot. When you restart your computer sometimes your system will not notice the flash drive and auto boot your primary OS.
If you cant find a way around this you may want to download PLOP.

- PLOP MANAGER
If your CD-ROM is broken, your computer wont USB boot then the road would have ended and you'd be stuck with Windows. Install PLOP manager to your computer (PLPbt-5.0.13). Then go in to the windows folder of your PLOP. Click on InstaltobootMenu It should be a MS-DOS Batch File.
Once clicked it will pull up a Command prompt displaying this dos box..

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
ADD/install the Plop boot Manager to the Windows boot menu
Plop Boot Manager -Written by Elmar Hanlhofer www.plop.at
Read and accept the license agreement!
Add the Plop Boot Manager to the Windows boot menu? 
{y,n}

You need to TYPE {Y}

Plop will install and run before your Windows OS starts. Now When you restart your PC PLOP BOOT MANAGER will appear along side with a Windows choice. Then hit the Enter key

When it starts up there will be options to boot your Linux distro..

|USB| You can now USB boot, and please note that you need to use formated USB.

|CR-ROM| If you burn Linux on a disc you can boot from the CD-ROM.

4- LINUX ON YOUR SYSTEM
Ubuntu will start you off with a Run from disc/USB or install. When installing you can choice how much room to allow your Linux to have on your HDD (hard drive). This is much safer then trying it on your own in Windows. Onces you have it up and running, there should be severe updates. It would be wise to install them.
Linux has terminal has many text editors inside. type nano and you can get a feel for it. you can lookup directory and even make shortcuts to save on time.

WARNING

DON'T SETUP LINUX OVER WINDOWS WHEN PARTITION HARD DRIVES

If you allow Linux to have to much space on the hard drive it could effect your Windows OS. Basically do not over lap storage. Since there on the same hard drives it could effect both and end badly. Even if you use the bare minimal amount of hard drive space to run Linux, it will run well enough for your needs.

Linux is a very powerful OS. some systems have bee know to stay up and running with Linux for over five years! So whatever your need Linux is there.