Aight, I downloaded Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 for my WinME laptop, made a bootdisk by rawrite-ing the boot.img file to A:, and booted my PC back up. When I reboted, I got a Trustix installation screen, and selected the "Install" option, so so far, so good.
Then, it said that it was missing something. Any help from true Linux users?
EDIT: It said "Boot failed, please change disks". Which disk should I use instead, and when should I change it? Or does it even work that way?
EDIT FROM THE FUTURE ('06): Nvm, Trustix was a server build! No GUI = no fun. I'm using Ubuntu right now, and I must say, Linux r0x0rz t3h n00bs b0x0rz. I'm a-keepin' my new OS!

Last edited: Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 10:44:17 PM

Umm sure what did it say you were missing.

The first thing you might want to look at http://www.linuxforums.org/ or just try a google search on your problem. I normally don't do the bootdisk. I have changed my BIOS so it reads my cd drive before my A drive or hard disk. That way I just copy the ISO file to disk, stick it in the cd drive and away I go.

Ok heres what I do. I have three computers that run linux, one is dual boot. To change the BIOS on each I had to hit either esc, F1 or F2 to get into bios. Guess it depends on the motherboard you have. When the computer boots you should see somthing like "Hit esc to enter BIOS". Once in the bios look for something about boot disk order and just make your CD drive go before your hard drive.

So if this was me all I would do is get the bootable ISO from http://www.trustix.net/mirrors/ throw it in the cd-rom and away I go!

Hope it helps.

UPDATE: That tip got me to the point where I started Linux setup, got to Disk Druid, and it said it couldn't allocate the space for the partition or something similar. Any advice from there? I have 900+MB of space free on my HD, and asked for a 640MB partition.

Answer me this: do you have a spare computer in your house?

Spare, no. Other, yes. Usable, no.

To be honest, I have never run into that problem. I know nothing about Trustix either. All I know about it is that it is targeted at companies as a server and usses the RPM package management system,like Redhat/Fedora. I always recommend people to try knoppix out first. Knoppix doesn't install to the hard drive but lets you see if the computer your using will have any probs (will linux find all the stuff on your computer). I recommend the knoppix game cd, TheThree Kings. It offers a Think Tanks demo http://games-knoppix.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ . I have tried a lot of different linux distro's, I got them from http://distrowatch.com/ and if you look on the right hand side you will see them ranked. I personally like fedora, SUSE, slackware and ubuntu (I use Kubuntu, which is a form of ubuntu). For me fedora and ubuntu are very user friendly in the sense that they have great forums and a lot of smart people helping, including the developers. Slack is by far the fastest and strongest distro and also has a good following, my propblem is that it doesn't come with a lot of bells and whisltes. You can add the what you want, but thats takes time and a lot of it is above my head. I have an old viao laptop with a pent II that I have slack on and I can actually use it as a server for TT. But mostly it used by my kids to play games on. So it really depends what you want to use this computer for.