Author: James Swafford
Date: 10:05:47 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 12:24:31, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >My hard drive broke down causing me lots of problems. The only good thing about >this is that I installed a new HD and I got courage to install also Linux. >So, I'd like to have Windows and Linux. I would do the serious stuff with >windows and I will use Linux to experiment with it and for computer chess >programming. I developed my program Gaviota portably, so it can compile in both >MSVC and Cygwin, so to have it compiled with GCC should be a piece of cake. >In that way, I can release a version of my program for Linux! > >So, the question is: What kind of Linux distribution would you recommend taking >into account that it would be mainly for computer chess and experimentation? >That is, xboard, xboard compatible engines, GCC, programming tools etc. >The cheapest one I can find? If in the future I decide to build a dual, would it >support SMP? I heard that Bob Hyatt had problems with Red Hat. I saw Slater's comment that Red Hat has fixed this, but let me add that the latest version is 7.3 > >Should I download Linux instead? (I have access at work to a T1 connection and a >CD burner) or it is too much trouble? $40 for a linux distribution might be >fine. I did exactly that last weekend and had no problems. Don't try to download from RedHat directly, though. Use a mirror site! I used ... I think it was UNC Chapel Hill's, but I don't remember for sure. > >How to do it dual boot? Is that easy to do? Is that supposed to come in the >distribution I buy? Is something safe? I partitioned my HD 20MB + 20 MB already >with the application that came with the HD (Maxtor 40 MB, I have no idea whether >it is good or it sucks but I did not want to wait to do research). I've done this, and it worked pretty well. You absolutely have to install Windows first, though. Use fdisk, leave a partitition without a file system. Install WIndows on the active partition with fat32. When you install Linux, use the other partition. Use LILO as the boot loader. You will have to decide if you want Windows or Linux to be the "default" - which one should load when you start your system. By default it is WIndows. You will have to use your Linux boot disk to boot into Linux. I don't remember all the details, but that's how it worked for me. A word to the wise: make sure _everything_ you need is backed up when you go playing with your hard drive and creating/deleting partitions. :) I'd hate to see you lose your program. > >The good thing is that I can experiment now since my HD is empty (with Windows >98, which came with the machine, I know people do not like it but I'll try not >to buy another version and it worked "reasonably" well for me). > >Sorry about my ignorance, you can really reduce it :-) >If you help me, I will pay with a new Linux engine to download. > >Miguel Good luck! -- James
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