New to JDS
Hi there,
I am currently using windows and i dont want to be any more for many reasons.
I am looking to get a new OS which will do most of the things my windows OS did - in-other-words nothing fancy just internet, CD/DVD playing burning, text docs and spreadsheets etc. using a couple of different logins for family.
I already have Open Office, Mozilla etc which I am happy using and I just want to change over to a good OS without too many dramas.
Qs:
Do I have to basically reformat my hard drive to install JDS?
I have a newish laptop here which is a friends and has no OS. If I download and install say the demonstration package, is it easy enough to uninstall back to what I had (ie just a C:/ prompt)
I have looked up the download centre and it says to download image 1,2,3 (and 6 for instructions). What is an image? will it run from the c:/ prompt? Should I download it onto CD and then install on the empty laptop?
I have a heap more questions but that might do to start with.
Thanks!
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rjw001] at [2007-11-25 22:33:52]
# 1
You don't have to reformat your hard drive; JDS will happily co-exist with Windows, on a separate partition. You can use the disk management options in the JDS Installer to do the partitioning, but many people feel more comfortable using something like Partition Magic for Windows.
The "images" it talks about are CD-ROM images (.iso files), which you'll need to burn onto blank CDs to do the installation.
I haven't installed the demo myself, but the usual way to delete JDS afterwards (if you've installed in on a separate partition) is, again using something like Partition Magic, delete the JDS partition, re-join it to your Windows partition, and use the Windows installation disk to restore the Windows Master Boot Record (which will have been overwritten when you installed JDS).
Alternatively, if you choose to overwrite Windows when you install JDS, the only way to get back your "C:/ prompt" afterwards is to completely reinstall Windows.
If you just want to see what JDS is all about, you might prefer to try the JDS Live CD instead:
<a href="http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/http/mirror.linuxquestions.org/jds _rs_lcd.iso" target="_blank"> http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/http/mirror.linuxques tions.org/jds_rs_lcd.iso</a>
Again it's a CD image. Once you've burned it, you can boot direct from it, and it won't install or change anything on your hard drive, it will run entirely from the CD. For that reason it will run a bit slower than the real thing, and won't have /all/ the features of full JDS, but it's a safe way to have a play.
calum at 2007-7-5 2:50:38 >
# 2
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I am looking to get a new OS which will do most of the things my windows OS did - in-other-words nothing fancy just internet, CD/DVD playing burning, text docs and spreadsheets etc. using a couple of different logins for family.
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Oh, btw... like most Linux distros, unfortunately JDS won't let you play commercial DVDs out the box, as a licence is required to distribute the decryption library.
Free versions of the decryption library /are/ available on the internet, but I'm not telling you where, as they're most likely illegal for you to download and/or use, and as a representative of Sun I couldn't possibly condone that sort of thing :)
calum at 2007-7-5 2:50:38 >
