OK guys, I guess I used the wrong terminology "Linux for windows", but I am a newbie. What I meant was a program that let me run Linux in a window on Microsoft Windows 7. Anyhow I followed AndrewS & deej1976's advice. I now have a Ubuntu Linux live USB stick, which I plugged into my tablet PC after ...

Ok, I've scrapped the Fedora image and installed the Debian image, this seems quicker and looks better than the Fedora. The only problem now is the partition size on SD card. I have a 16Gb card and 13Gb of it is unmounted. I watched the Youtube video on how to resize the partitions but it says the S...

Thankyou, I went for the Fedora because it was the easiest way to set up the SD card. Will I have to re-partition the SD card now to fit the Debian image on it.
I typed "su" and password into the command line an got to the root, is there a command for changing the time zone in the Fedora ?

Excuse my ignorance but I'm an absolute newbie to linux and have limited knowledge of programming in Basic from 30 years ago. I have my raspberry pi up and running in the gui after using the Fedora ARM installer. I have a couple mistakes of my own making from setting up. I entered the wrong time zon...