[Basic knowledge] Linux Novice series of three _unix Linux

　　Novice to Linux [Series III]

OK, where do I get Linux? For easy discussion, I'll just talk about CD-ROM installation. So the first step is to get a Redhat 6.2 CD. There are two ways to get a disc, one is to buy a CD-ROM, this is relatively simple, there are pirated discs outside, but it should be pointed out that RedHat 6.2 of the CD can not be pirated discs, because RedHat 6.2 under the GPL, it is not charged with copyright fees. So anyone who copies the installation CD is legal. So do not have to buy a "RedHat 6.2 of pirated disk" and complacent or have the joy of stealing success .... Just need to pay attention to, selling pirated disk for the money to do anything, and some of the RH 6.0 plate brush a cover Leng told you this is 6.5 the latest, but do not easily believe. Remember that year (6 years ago) Kill antivirus software popular version upgrade quickly have a variety of fake version, I personally made a kill 500.2来 cheat play, who let him Leng said he that kill 79.8 is true?

Another way is to get the ISO file, which is one of the questions that half the novice must ask. You probably have a network, too lazy or unable to buy a CD. You downloaded a rh62_install from an FTP. ISO such a document of more than 600 m. You're thinking this is a CD-ROM file, but you don't know how to undo it. What do we do?

ISO is the CD-ROM image file. What do you do if you want to pass the contents of a disc to someone completely? Of course, the simplest is the CD copy, if you want to go through the network, you can pass the files on the CD. If this disc is just a few files, but if the CD has such as CD-ROM can be started such a function, I am afraid to pass the file. Let alone on the network, the total number of 600M of thousands of small files is terrible.

So, someone has invented the ISO, that is, can be a CD-ROM faithful "photo", written to an ISO file. The same software can be used to write all the information back to the CD, get a touch of the same disk, including all the ability to start the CD-ROM.

So you've got the ISO, how do you get the disc? Simply, find any machine that can engrave the disc, it must have a similar ezcdpro software. Each such software should have the function of writing a CD-ROM into an ISO file and writing an ISO file as a CD-ROM. You need to look it up in the menu, or find someone to help you, how to put the CD IMAGE file into a CD function, and then start carving, you get a redhat distribution is not bad byte of the disc.

　　a little problem: those down ISO places often have md5.checksum or redhat62.md5 such files, and not small, dozens of bytes, you do not know what they are doing, is also to be download or not can be engraved CD. In fact, you don't have to care about them, those are data integrity checksums, like the tracking documents for registered letters. As long as the letter can come, it doesn't matter if they are there.

There are also FTP installation, with WinImage to expand the ISO local file installation and other means, I do not discuss them.

OK, now you have a RH 6.2 CD, because it is ISO engraved, so it should be able to do CD-ROM boot. Then, put it into the optical drive, and then set the BIOS setting CD to boot and start the machine. We can start installing RH Linux.

Down your first question is "My machine has 16G, divided a C disk 4G, two d,e disk each 6G" I also want to keep the C-disk of Windows, I can install Linux to D or e disk? Oh, very good, you know Linux is an operating system, you may want to get rid of windows, but unfortunately you on the hard disk, zoning understanding is wrong.

The next article will talk about the hard disk partitioning problem.