UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Yes, You have still neglected to mention WHICH OS your planning to install. The specs of the hardware are good to know, when deciding on which OS to install, but you've still never said which one.

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that's what i found while searching

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....=unix&tg=dl-20

look at this web page and tell me what kinf of them would be fine to me

Ahh. OS means Operating System.
MS Windows 95,98, Me, XP are OS's, They are operating systems.
AIX, Solaris, IRIX, BeOS, QNX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DOS, OS/2, GNU/Debian Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, Caadera OpenLinux, are examples of Operating System (OS).
The begining of this thread, you said you wanted to install UNIX, a OS.
We asked you, Which OS do you want to install, since the term UNIX is not a single tangible system these days, You do not walk down the street asking to buy UNIX, you would ask for AIX, or Solaris or IRIX. The brand name of an operating system, Just as Microsoft Windows XP is the name of the latest OS from Microsoft from the Windows Family.

The page you posted on the bottom of the thread is for programs that run inside an OS.
But you're wanting to know how to install an OS, not a program.
Which OS do you want to run today?
Windows XP you already stated you have installed. You said you wanted to install UNIX besides XP, but which OS do you mean, when you said UNIX?
Did you mean Red Hat Linux? or Fedora Core or Gentoo Linux or Gnoppix or Mandrake-Linux?