quote:That's why I bought Linux last night. Hopefully, I'll manage to get it installed soon
You don't know what you've got ahead of you. It took me three weeks to install Mandrake 7.0, including getting the sound to work and to get my various USB things to be detected. Not to mention configuring the kernel to a tee.
And I still haven't found a winmodem driver for my Compaq modem, so I can only go online in Windows until I buy a "real" modem ...
------------------ -Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
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Well, I got Red Hat. If this is the easy-to-install distribution, I don't want to see the hard ones...
Actually, I'm just kidding. So far, the problems I'm having aren't Linux' fault. The problems stem from the fact that I didn't put more than one partition on my hard drive when I set up the computer, the fact that Win98 uses a stupid Microsoft type of partition, rather than normal FAT32, and that fact that I don't have any way to back up right now (I'm going to buy a CD-RW as soon as possible).
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A partition is when you split your hardrive into two (or more) parts, thus giving you more drives. I, for instance, have a C drive, a D drive, and my CD-RW is E drive.
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More acurrately, a partition defines the file system(s) on a hard disk and how many sectors a filesystem is allocated. Linux uses the Unix standard, Extended 2. Windows, more conventionally, uses FAT 16 or 32. I also believe MyOS, OS2, and BeOS have there own respective file systems as well. Also, unlike Windows, Linux requires a swap partition seperate from the space applications occupy; so thus, there is no performance loss when your Linux partition is full.
Most distributions of Linux on a CD come with a utility to slice you hard drive up into the necessary pieces (i.e. a cut down version of Partition Magic).
------------------ -Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited August 21, 2000).]
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Scuzzy: Yeah, my problem is that the partition utility w/ Linux couldn't cut parts out of the already-existing Windows partition. I borrowed Partition Magic from a friend, but it was an old version, and it couldn't work w/ FAT32X, which is apparently a spawn of Microsoft designed for Win98. So, I got a CD-RW, and I'm going to back everything up and start over, making multiple partitions to start with...
------------------ "It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing." -Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited August 22, 2000).]
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