Problems in Linux

Hi guys,its been a long time i thought about using Linux operating system as i was busy with the windows os with my project and now as my project is getting ready to completion ,i was thinking of getting back to Linux and learn some thing new in it and i thought of the problems i faced while using the Linux os a while ago and i thought i may share with all of you. I usually use Fedora core ,i don't know why but i like it .so here goes the story

Installing Linux

The First and foremost problem was installing the Linux in a new partition in my system.I started installing the Fedora core from the cd's i downloaded from the internet,it was going on fine till the step came for selecting the partition for installing Linux,as i was new to it,i didn't know what to do and selected automatic selection.

The Setup asked me to whether to use the free space in the hard disk or use a window partion and or use a old linux partition.I didn't have the last 2 options in my hand and so i thought of trying the first one and the setup showed the free space in all the existing partitions but i had data in it so i could not even use them .so i stopped the installation


What actually went wrong in the installation was that i should have created empty partition first in the windows itself or should have known to use the manual partition setup

Easy Installation of Linux

Follow these steps for easy installation

• Boot your system in windows
• Select an existing partition which you can wipe out and move the needed data's to other partition
• The size of the partition should be at least 5 GB,i recommend 10 GB for good usage
• Use a partition software like Partition Magic and delete the partition and restart
• After restarting ,the partition should be gone form the system
• Now boot your system from the Linux CD and go through the installation process
• At the stage of selecting the partition ,use automatic and select the option of using existing free space
• Now the setup will take free space we have created by deleting the partition
• Go through the rest of the setup and install Linux.

Manual Installation

Manual installation differs slightly for different versions of linux,mostly all the linux needs 3 partitions namely

1. Boot Partition with a minimum of 100 MB size
2. Swap Partition with a minimum of 128 MB size
3. Root Partition with a minimum of 4 GB size

There will be a partition software in the setup,use the new ,edit and delete to create these partitions and it looks like this


Delete any existing partition which is not needed and create these new partitions and select the partition type as ext3 which is the Linux partition type for boot and root partition's and swap partition if of swap partition type itself.

For the mount point type you need to select /boot for boot partition and / for root partition and for swap you don't have mount point itself. After creating all these partitions ,you can also create a extra partition if you want like the D and E partitions in Windows os.just create a new partition and select any mount point other than / , /boot.

The newer versions of the Linux now don't need the boot partition but need the remaining 2 partitions.