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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cliched unix help thread Post 302088948 by jim mcnamara on Friday 15th of September 2006 09:49:50 AM
Old 09-15-2006
Ubuntu is vary easy to install. Debian is harder. Both will support your hardware if it has been around for more than say six months.

Don't use experimental kernels until you learn how to do backups and restores.

Ubuntu will ask if you want to dual boot - meaning you keep windows. You will need to create a partition large enough for ubuntu (or debian or whatever distro you choose). Then you can install and boot either to Windows or Ubuntu.

The only reason I mention Ubuntu is that it (and probably Knoppix ) is the easiest to install and get running. It's meant for Windows users. Knoppix will run from a cd, without ever installing anything. This is ultra-safe, and also pretty limited.

Please get out and read a lot before you do something you may not like.
Before you do anything, create a full backup.
Try http://www.ubuntu.com/ to start with.
 

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PBUILDER-DIST-SIMPLE(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   PBUILDER-DIST-SIMPLE(1)

NAME
pbuilder-dist-simple - simple multi-release pbuilder wrapper SYNOPSIS
pbuilder-<dist> operation [...] DESCRIPTION
pbuilder-dist-simple is a wrapper that makes it easy to use pbuilder with chroots for many different Ubuntu distributions. If you need more features than pbuilder-dist-simple provides, have a look at pbuilder-dist(1). USAGE
Create one symlink to pbuilder-dist-simple for each distribution for which you want a build environment, naming them like "pbuilder-lucid", "pbuilder-natty", etc. Replace operation with the action you want pbuilder-dist-simple to do (create, update, build, clean, login or execute). EXAMPLES
pbuilder-natty create Creates a pbuilder environment for Ubuntu Natty. pbuilder-lucid update Updates an existing Ubuntu Lucid environment. pbuilder-lucid build ./sample_1.0-0ubuntu1.dsc Builds the specified package on an already existing Ubuntu Lucid environment. FILES
By default, pbuilder-dist-simple will store all the files it generates in ~/pbuilder/. This can be changed by modifying the BASE_DIR value on the top of the script to any other directory you want. If the directory doesn't exit, it will be created at runtime. SEE ALSO
pbuilder(1), pbuilderrc(5), pbuilder-dist(1) AUTHORS
pbuilder-dist was originally written by Jamin W. Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> and Jordan Mantha <mantha@ubuntu.com>, and this man- page by Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. ubuntu-dev-tools February 25, 2008 PBUILDER-DIST-SIMPLE(1)
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