[SGVLUG] how to download and install a free linux distribution?

[Jess Bermudes via SGVLUG]

If your motherboard is relatively new, then it might have something called
"secure boot" enabled that may prevent Linux distros on external drives
from booting. Go into your BIOS/UEFI firmware settings and see if there's
anything there like that. Also sometimes in the boot device menu from the
motherboard you'll get an option to boot a device in UEFI mode or not, so
sometimes choosing the other option works better. I feel like I'm not
explaining this properly. Anyone else want to take a stab? Although seeing
how you've previously installed fedora I suppose at one time you were
successful in getting something installed?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:54 PM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
wrote:

> I just downloaded the Ubuntu 16 iso, Ran Rufus on the usb and then copy
> the iso to the usb.
> I changed the boot menu to use " removable device" first but when I reboot
> it still goes to the installed Fedora2 version.
>
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> On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 4:08 PM, Jess Bermudes via SGVLUG <
> sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
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> So one trap for newbies in this age where nobody has an optical drive
> anymore is that the ISOs image files provided by the various distros can't
> simply be copied to a flash drive and booted off of. You need to use a
> special program to put the image on the flash drive.
>
> Ubuntu provides instructions for Windows:
> https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
>
> And for Mac users:
> https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos
>
> These instructions should work even if you're not using Ubuntu's images
>
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Claude Felizardo via SGVLUG <
> sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
>
> You may also want to consider setting up for dual boot of linux and
> windows if you have already paid the windows tax and you still have one or
> more applications that work better (or only) on windows.  I've done this
> with just about every laptop I owned.   It's been a while but the last time
> I looked the distros usually supported this from the install disc.
>
> I have also used VirtualBox first with an online compiler class where the
> instructor provided a ready-to-go development environment with all the
> documentation, tools, assignments and test cases; and for work where I have
> several images for testing one of our products on different platforms.
>
> Claude
>
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> On Apr 19, 2017, at 12:02 PM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
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> I just want to get a all around Linux on the box as an alternative to my
> win laptop. I lean towards putting it on the hard drive.
>
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> On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:51 AM, Bryan Backer via SGVLUG <
> sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
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> Do you want to install it on your hard drive? Or just boot linux to try it
> out?
>
> If you want to just try a distro or two, making a 'livecd' image that is
> bootable
> directly from CD or thumbdrive would probably be a good starting point.
> That would let you try out a distro without installing. Once you find one
> you
> like,  you could then take the next step and install it on your harddrive,
> start booting from that.
>
> For instance, at https://wiki.centos.org/ Download
> <https://wiki.centos.org/Download>
> if you scroll down to the 'Variety of ISO images' section
> you'll see a discussion of a 'livecd' and what that means.
> If you see links on that page for 'liveKDE' or 'liveGNOME' they
> should be bootable, runnable without installation setups, differing
> in their windows manager (KDE vs gnome).
>
> I'd suggest you give those a try, see what you like, then proceed on
> to a real install.
>
>
> A different alternative for testdriving linux distros is the download
> virtualbox
> and run a VM on your system and try linux within that. That is a great way
> to test drive but requires a little more robust hardware.
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> wrote:
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> Like Ubuntu etc.? My understanding is download the distribution, get it on
> an USB and boot on the computer. Is the downloaded distribution bootable
> without further tingling?
> Any recommendation other than Ubuntu?
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