Learning Linux and C++

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2005 · #1 Post by **2005** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:42 pm

I recently used Partition Magic 9 to partition off a 4 gig section of my hardrive for Red Hat Linux. I heard it was the easiest to learn on and just about have all three .iso's downloaded. The partition magic program wanted me to partition the drive as a logical and not a primary drive, will that suite my needs??? Any tips or guides for using linux, and does anyone know if the surboard 5100 and my netgear router are supported by Red Hat 9???

Onto C++, I want to start learning to use this... but If at all possible I woud like to be able to do it on my own with tutorials and help from message boards and the like. I understand PB is actually learning it now and had atleast one 7 hour class... anything you can chime in here??

#2 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:02 pm

4GB seems to be.. too small, or like youll want to uncheck some of the things itll ask if u want installed, ull have to be skimpy. i doubt linux will have trouble with the router or modem, the issue here is the ethernet card. i NEVER got mine to work with the integrated ethernet.. or ANYTHING. its gay, the drivers from nvidia are like... they have a few drivers made for some kernal versions like 9.23.1234 and if your actual installed version is 9.23.1235 then it wont fucking work. those fuckers. nvidia also came with some kinda kernal compiler or something so you can recompile the driver to ur version or something but i never got that to work successfully. have to like enter in a lot of commands in the command prompt thing.

oh and fedora would have been a better choice btw, redhat is no longer open source, fedora is the new open source redhat.

well any of those starting out with C++ books and stuff work, the for dummys ones are nice, the only reason i took the class is to push me to actually do the programming, otherwise it got too boring and i stopped before getting anymore more than being able to make a madlib or something... just push urself to study one of those books if you can XD i mean the class was basicly taught off one of them. that was it.

2005 · #3 Post by **2005** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:35 pm

Well the fucken retarded shit I downloaded wasnt a disk immage like its supposed to be, so ill scrap that shit and download Fedora. Ill also resize the partion... maybe 12 gig or so.

#4 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:40 pm

what was it? i went along fine with 10GB btw

2005 · #5 Post by **2005** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:56 pm

It actually was an iso.. just an iso archive and all I had to do was select burn immage in nero and then select the WinRAR archive.... Either way I have the first disk of FC3 downloaded and the others comming. I really didnt want to use Red Hat 9 anyhow. I have merged the partitions back together and will repartition it when all the disks are downloaded and burnt. I think ill go with 10GB instead of 12.

#6 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:02 pm

so... the iso was in a rar? whatever ethernet (and audio) models you have, check with their company sites for drivers for linux, it MAY not work.

2005 · #7 Post by **2005** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:08 pm

Did you dual boot with windows XP and FC3??? Did you use grub??? how did you do it.

#8 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:28 pm

yeah i did, and yeah i think it was called grub... well during fedora's installation it shows other bootable OSes it detects, make sure you go in and like make windows default if you want. without that, if you just leave it in the grub thing when u boot, itll count down 30 seconds and go to which ever you made default. and if its default you can just hit enter without using the arrow keys to move to the right one you usually want..

so um.. yeah itll ask u during installation, pretty straight forward

Q12321 · #9 Post by **Q12321** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:44 pm

Red hat is a piece of shit. It's no longer being improved, nor does it have support anymore. Use Slackware or Gentoo.

2005 · #10 Post by **2005** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:53 pm

OMG this is being retarded, its been over 5 hours and still no linux. I havent even started installing yet. I downloaded red hat 9 and didnt understand the whole .iso archive idea and deleted those so there goes an hour of downloading. Then I download FC3 and got disk 1,2,3 but for some reason the 386 MB disk 4 iso cant be downloaded from linuxiso or any of the mirrors for it. So I said F it and just burned the 3 immages onto CD-Rs. But for some reason I decided to burn the first immage onto a CD-RW and it could only burn at 10x.... keep this in mind. So I burn all three to TDK CD-R's at 32x and pop in the first disk... restarted and the Fedora screen came up. It asked me if I wanted to test the media and for some reason I did... all three disks FAILED. But the CD-RW burnt at 10x PASSED... so its not the immage file wrather how fast it was burnt or something else.. maybe the track at once was a problem or the fact of different media brands. This is starting to piss me off.

This woulda been posted before Q's post but my connection farted and I had to recycle everything. I wana learn slackware, is it as easy or easier then learning red hat???

Q12321 · #11 Post by **Q12321** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:58 pm

Sadly, no. It is a bit harder, but the Linux shell is always the same. All the commands are identical, just the look and feel is different. Slackware is also VERY good for server and networking, if you are into that kind of stuff. Gentoo is nice as well, but tricky.

#12 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:03 am

actually i dont remember ever letting it check

i just let it go and it works...

2005 · #13 Post by **2005** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:53 am

Well Im am posting this from Fedora Core 3 but I seem to have a problem. It appears I can no longer boot into windows XP anymore. During the GRUB setup thingy it sad select default OS and I picked other thinking that was Windows. Every time I pick that option however it Stats up the HP System Recovery which isnt what I want. Any help???? As of now Im stuck in linux.

#14 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:50 am

ok all i know is you can edit the boot data by booting from the windows CD and do that Repair thing (not auto one) and theres some commands you do that can bring you to where you can redo the boot stuffs stuff... heh i never successfuly did it but i remember dragon did before

dragon?