Alex,
> lot of tutorials this kind of step by step guidelines : "Start Windows,
> then look at the value of this parameter, then reboot with Linux and set
> the value of this parameter with the one you saw in Windows", which
> makes me think that installing Linux without Windows is for advanced
The first thing I usually do on installing Linux is to format the entire
file system and nuke whatever version of Windows was once there. If you
do the following:
- Pick the very most recent version of your favorite distribution
- Get as much documentation on your hardware as you can (card names, etc)
- Check the compatibility list for your distro
(Red Hat's is http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/)
...then all is likely to be okay. Recent distros have become very good
at auto-detecting hardware lately and for the awkward things like video
cards and monitors, try to have your monitor handy.
Funny you should mention this actually. I reckon ILUG were the only people
at e-XPO to format the filesystems of our demo machines at 8pm the night
before the show :-)
Dave
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