--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> From the BIOS you can boot either a Live disk (CD or DVD) or usb stick and
> install any OS from there, Linux included. You may have to change BIOS
> settings so that it boots the CD/DVD drive before the HD, but most
> computers have that as the default setting. Check the minimum requirements
> of the Linux distribution against your specs and run the Live disk to see
> if everything works before installing.
>
> Roy
I've had live images fail on some machines but the installed distribution ran OK. Minimum requirements has been a gray area for me too. There is minimum good experience requirements then absolute minimum requirements. Some distributions offer low resource install paths. Text mode installs etc. With some hardware there may be no other choice than to text mode install then configure the system afterwards. That happening might not have anything to do with low system resources either. It could just be distribution developers didn't take some piece of hardware into account. GPUs often can be problematic with static images for me. It would be hard to support them all the best.
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