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shmokes:
It's time for me to wipe my hard drive and reinstall a fresh OS, but this time I'm planning on setting up a triple-boot with XP, Vista and the Ubuntu Linux Distro.

I'm a professional with XP, but my experience with Linux and Vista is practically non-existent.  Vista won't be a problem, cos it's MS and things aren't going to be too different from what I'm used to.  Linux, I'm thinking, will have a somewhat steeper learning curve.  I'll probably have questions periodically that I'll post here, but here's my first one:

1- I'm in the process of gathering everything I'll need during the installation process.  I'm getting drivers for all my hardware, for all three operating systems and putting them on discs so I'll have them on-hand throughout the installation process.  Once again, XP and Vista are easy.  I have a Dell computer and I can just go grab the drivers from their site.  They have Linux drivers too, but my lack of Linux expertise makes it more difficult to understand.  Dell lists the following drivers for Linux:  Enterprise Linux 4, Enterprise Linux 3, Linux 9.0.  Does anybody know which of these, if any, I should use with Ubuntu Linux?

drunkatuw:
You probably don't want either of those linux drivers.  Those are probably rpms for redhat and not ubuntu.  Most likely all of your hardware will be discovered and installed correctly automatically by ubuntu.  The only thing that might cause a problem would be a SATA hard drive controller.  But most likely that will also be automatically detected.  If it's a peripheral like a sound card or wireless NIC then I wouldn't worry about it and you can just download the drivers once ubuntu is installed.  Or you could always boot back into windows to download the drivers.

But one of the coolest features of linux is a liveCD. 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

With this CD, you can boot into linux and see what hardware works and what doesn't.  Nothing is installed onto your machine.  If it doesn't work, just take out the CD and reboot and you'll be back in windows.

ChadTower:

What is your UNIX knowledge level?  The concepts are the same in many ways.

Dexter:
Shmokes,

Just installed fedora 6 linux on my internet box at home after W2K let me down for the nth time. First time user as well. Its handy enough and you'll thank yourself for putting the bit of effort in. I could swear I've less grey hair now.

Dexter

Glaine:
I tried to install both Ubuntu 6.06 a while back when someone mentioned it here and it never would boot into ubuntu for me to install.

And I tried to install ubuntu 6.10 for 3 days straight last week for a friends computer.
I tried installing it to the hard drive from 3 different computers. None of them installed successfully. Neither of my 2 computers would even boot up all the way into the live cd and while the friends computer would boot into ubuntu occasionally, it wouldn't install all the way successfully (in its defense, I think the friends computer had kernel issues). My personal PC isn't all that old so I have no clue why it wouldn't boot int ubuntu.

I agree that when it did boot up, it appeared to find all the drivers it needed on its own, which is awesome, though I wonder how hard it will be to apply 3d card tools correctly so you can customize your display and send signal to S-Vid. Hopefully there are linux apps for your video card or it might be sort of hopeless for that.

I want to try this. I really do. But so far its been an impossibility.
I ran the disk validity utility and there were no checksum errors.
Would it help to send Amazon $10 for the ubuntu disk (which is probably the same disk I burned off their website)?

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