Which Linux Distro?

[shud]

So Linux natively uses NTFS? How will a distro format my drive?

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: shud
So Linux natively uses NTFS? How will a distro format my drive?

Linux doesn't use NTFS natively, however it can read & write to NTFS partition.

 

[Enfer Singe]

Originally posted by: OffTopic

Originally posted by: shud
So Linux natively uses NTFS? How will a distro format my drive?

Linux doesn't use NTFS natively, however it can read & write to NTFS partition.

you are going to have to do some tweaking if you want to write to NTFS

 

[shud]

Originally posted by: Enfer Singe

Originally posted by: OffTopic

Originally posted by: shud
So Linux natively uses NTFS? How will a distro format my drive?

Linux doesn't use NTFS natively, however it can read & write to NTFS partition.

you are going to have to do some tweaking if you want to write to NTFS

I'm going to throw some drives into my Linux box for MythTV. What's the best way to format them, as I believe my friend will eventually take those drives out and put them back in a windows machine?

 

[Nothinman]

If you must share them between OSes on the same machine, the only real choice is FAT. If you're going to mount them in Linux and share them via the network any filesystem is fine and I would recommend XFS or ext3.

 

[linuxconvert]

For a buttload of distro's go to www.distrowatch.com. I would be surprised if there was a distro that they didn't have.

 

[shud]

double post, sorry

 

[Enfer Singe]

like Nothingman said, FAT is probably your best option.

 

[fuzzynavel]

OK looks like NTFS may or may not be a good idea depending on who is asked...

So I will have to format my media partition to use FAT 32 or even FAT16.....can it be done without losing data....i.e can a drive be changed from NTFS to FAT file system without formatting first and without losing data?

 

[shud]

Nevermind, this isn't even an issue. I'm going to format my 20gb OS drive as XFS or whatever, the data drives will remain NTFS. I'm retarded. Those won't be used to boot from.

 

[TGS]

You need to be careful if you want to boot off of non-ext2 or ext3 partitions. I don't think grub will have a problem on a non-ext partition. Just make sure the kernel you are installing has XFS support enabled.

I'm fairly sure LILO will be similiar but double check. I believe that automagic partitioning software will tell you to use ext2 or ext3 for /boot.

 

[nweaver]

I have a high school diploma, clean shaven (and dressed in a button down shirt even!) and a wife/kids. I'm a linux user.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: shud

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: shud
I am pretty sure you need an NFS partition to boot with most Linux distros. It can mount NTFS drives, just not boot from them.

Might be wrong though.

You don't need NFS to boot Linux.

Must be BSD then. I heard that somewhere.

You heard wrong. NFS isn't needed for normal installations of any BSD.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: OffTopic

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: shud
I am pretty sure you need an NFS partition to boot with most Linux distros. It can mount NTFS drives, just not boot from them.

Might be wrong though.

You don't need NFS to boot Linux.

You also need a degree in CS, unshaven, and no gf to use linux :roll:

Guess that's why I don't run Linux regularly...

 

[Nothinman]

Guess that's why I don't run Linux regularly...

The requirements for BSD are the same, but you should also be overweight, egotistical and bullheaded. =)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Guess that's why I don't run Linux regularly...

The requirements for BSD are the same, but you should also be overweight, egotistical and bullheaded. =)

Not with OpenBSD. Hell, Theo is an avid climber.

 

[fuzzynavel]

Ended up with Ubuntu distro....tried the live CD version first and it seemed friendly enough so have just created a EXT2 partition (whatever that is) and installed it.....am busily trying to install codecs etc now so that I can have some tunes.....Not too sure about all these terminal commands...."sudo", apt-get" etc etc....but having fun anyway

 

[Nothinman]

Not with OpenBSD. Hell, Theo is an avid climber.

2 out of 3 ain't bad =)

 

[TGS]

EXT2 is just a file system format. Just like how Windows uses it's own NTFS. Linux used to always use EXT2 and typically now you will see installers prompt for ext2 or ext3 partitions.

SUDO is for a user to run a command as root, more or less. Apt-get is for installing/upgrading packages.

Should end up looking like, sudo apt-get install <app name>

 

[overturfa]

Originally posted by: fuzzynavel
Thanks for the help guys......

Will probably end up with something like knoppix live CD so that I can mess with linux without the risk of messing something up to start with.......don't really want to be deleting my windows partitions by mistake!

Thanks again


Doesn't UT2004 have a linux version on the CDs?

If you're doing a live CD then check out Mepis
Mepis > Knoppix and I believe SuSE offers a live CD free for download too.

 

[overturfa]

Originally posted by: PoopyPants

i have it only for the reason of the types of jobs im after, learning it is almost a must as it sets you into the world of Unix, which is different but linux is a nix os, its derived from Unix.

Linux is not derived from Unix. Linux source code is entirely unique in and of itself. It is a UNIX-Like operating system in the sense that the look, feel, and command set are very similar in many respects. Unix != Linux and Unix source != Linux source.

 

[nweaver]

think of sudo as "Run as administrator" command.

I can't believe that even windows users are sooo not used to command line. I use it on a very regular basis for everyday tasks in windows.

I wonder if there is a windows port for lynx..../google

 

[TGS]

I don't think people even tend to believe windows has command line tools. I worked in a large datacenter for a few years and I was one of two people that actually used cli on windows. The other guy was a solaris guy. I was laughing my ass off when someone was manually entering over 500 users into exchange and creating the domain accounts. I showed them how to do it in cli and they were slackjawed.

I'm telling you, if you find an administrator the is lazy they will use cli, because it's faster and you can script repeative operations. Giving you more time to slack off, like now...

 

[Skitzer]

My distro of choice
blag
Second choice would be ubuntu

 

[bdoople]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Guess that's why I don't run Linux regularly...

The requirements for BSD are the same, but you should also be overweight, egotistical and bullheaded. =)

I run BSD only. I dunno about bullheaded, or egotistical, but I am slightly overweight. I am also taller than I should be, heh.