How To Build A Bootable Barebones Linux Installation

I just bought a refurb computer at the recommendation of a forum member and now I need a manual. Which is the best online ebook to learn Linux for very very beginners! Like ' how to knock the computer on' beginners! A book that doesn't presume I know what a distro is! I'm joining the Linux community and very excited to steep myself in all things Linux but I need to start at the very beginning otherwise I'll end up getting disillusioned by the scale of the Linux dictionary.

Of course I am very Mac competant and not a complete computer unsavvy guy but I believe in order to really know something you have to go back to the basics. Please recommend a basic online books preferably in iBooks.

I look forward to driving you all crazy over the next six months with my ABC questions.


Thanks guys

Hi everyone,
I'm planing to join the development team of Linux kernel. As the first step, I started to clone git repo of the linux-next that I found two contradictory tutorials:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html

https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tut...rnel_patch.txt

Which one should I follow?

Thanks.

Just updated some Linuxes quizzes that could answer many of your questions about Linux.

1. Starters
100 questions for beginners about what is possible and how
2. History
70 questions
3. From the Shell
130 questions and 3 levels
first level is an easy intoduction to the shell and then it gets tricker
4. Expert
75 questions and two levels
5. Wifi
10 questions (new quiz more questions to be added soon)
6. GIMP
30 questions with images on doing graphics with Linux

it's a quick & fun way to see what's possible with linux

oh! where to find them?
easy, just search 'linux quizzes'

Hello. I am an absolute beginner with Linux and would appreciate a bit of hand holding. I am building a small computer for use with Ham radio applications and have never used Linux before.

I have downloaded a Ubuntu build onto a wintel machine and created a cd. The drive in the PC is a CCD an I have only ever used one on a windows machine and then I didn't install it.

Can someone guide me as to :

1) how I should format or in some other way prepare the SSd for the installation of Linux
2) tell me anything I should be aware of in installing Linux to the SSD
3) anything I should watch out for in using the SSd with Linux.

That last one may seem silly but I have been warned never to defrag on the Wintel machine as it will damage the SSD.

I look forward to any help / advice that you may have.

Best regards

Nick (GW6EWX)

Hey Newbie Here

Have A Acer C720 Chomebook With An Upgraded SSD 128GB, Run Ubuntu Threw Cruton But Dont Know To Much

Have Legacy Boot And Really Into Messing Around

Looking For A Bootable Virtual Machine OS, What I Mean Is A Small Operating System With Enough To Support Hardware And Qemu Or Better Installation, Size Dose'nt Matter And Hopefully Something Already Put Together But I Can Understand Instructons

I Once Found A Tinycore Iso That Was Bootable And Booted Straight Into A Partition-er - A Bootable Partition-er And All Around Bootable Disk Management Os..... I Love The Idea Of Bootable Software, It Was Only Like 40+ Megs

Ive Looked All Around Google And Couldent Find Anything

Tried To Make one Myself And Cant Understand How To Put Together Something Like That

Even Just A Terminal That Boots Qemu With The Right Command Or Something That Compares To A Bootable Tinycore Program

Thanks, Open To Better Newer Ideas , And Anything Helps

Good evening;
Following instructions on-line I attempted to create a bootable USB drive (32GB Sandsik extreme) with Linux 17.1 installed to enable a trial before attempting a permanent install beside windows 7 on a new computer with Win7 prof. installed.

On the usb I see a 4.0 GB area highlighted in G Parted but not accessible from the Linux file manager. This shows up as a ~1.4 GB sub-directory titled casper. and also as 4.0 GB 'file' named casper-rw. Can anyone explain what is the purpose of this sub-directory? The software I used to create the usb bootable drive and install Linux to is 'Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.9'. This is a windows executable. My intent was to create a bootable usb drive for Linux that also contained my required hardware drivers, etc. This doesn't appear to be working 100%; although Linux 17.1 boots the nvidia hardware drivers do not appear to be available even though I downloaded these and they are on the same usb. On boot-up a message box indicates that hardware acceleration is not enabled and higher than normal processor usage may occur.

Any assistance / direction, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Regards;
Mike

hi All,

i tried to make a bootable linux mint usb. i thought i succeeded but when i pull out the usb and try to boot back into windows i still boot into linux mint. this is probably a stupid question but have installed linux mint over my windows mistakenly.

help....please

I need steps start from scratch about hosting a site on http and https in linux along with screen shot if possible. I have installed Apache.

Can you please let me know. I am very new to Linux

AOA
Good Morning!
first of all Congratulation to run a tremendous site, which help the needy and passionate people. I want to learn that but i cant find a right person.
Actually in our environment, we run Oracle Red-hat Linux 5.9.
I want to become a Linux administrator.
I have following experience of Oracle Red-hat Linux 5.9.

1. Linux Installation 5.9
2. Driver installation
3. IP Installation
4. How to set admin password
5. How to join domain
6. How to set system name
7. How to check system partition drives
8. How to access any specific folder
9. How to install specific software
10. How to off firewall

I would like to request the admin please, i want to do something new in Linux if anyone help me for learning...

My best wishes always with this side and specially for admin. you are really spread a right and useful information...


thanking you,
Best Regards,
Kamran Ali

Hi, please excuse any misunderstanding about the title.

I'm an experienced computer user, but not with Linux. As a matter of fact, even with Windows, I only do so much at the command prompt.

I am looking for a very fast (boot and etc.) Linux system, that has nothing more than a command prompt. No X-Windows. However, I would like to configure X-Windows immediately after an installation.

I noticed the LFS project. Very cool, but way too complex for me. It is exactly what I'm looking for, except, I would like the basic system to already be proven, maybe even with security updates.

The biggest most important thing is (ONLY WHAT I WANT). I don't want dozens of browsers, a hundred text editors, or any other cool or stupid open source or commercial software. I simply am looking for what Dos 6.22 was in Linux.

There are many distros. Can you guys help me pick one out that is light, secure and ready to be configured to run X windows or X-Free or Xorg, I'm not sure what the best is right now.

PS: I'm a linux noob, but I have had several decent installations of Ubuntu, and some experience with the command line, including compiling software, but still a beginner.