[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Argh, linux headaches!

[Pete Stephenson]

In article <slrncubb5a.1nbe.nobody at 127.0.0.1>,
 Steven Maesslein <nobody at nowhere.invalid> wrote:

> The FreeBSD documentation is excellent. I suggest you take a look at the 
> FreeBSD handbook:

[snip]

I shall definitely look at that.

> > I've heard good things about Red Hat as well, and am downloading the 
> > ISOs for that as we speak. More tinkering around with this will be good.
> 
> If you're downloading Red Hat, you're downloading outdated stuff. Red 
> Hat's community supported (free) edition became Fedora Core in August 
> 2003 or thereabouts. FC2 is reputed to be not bad, but whatever you 
> choose out of RH or FC, you're going to end up with a desktop solution 
> rather than a server solution. Of course, this might be what you're 
> looking for...

I meant that I was downloading /from/ Red Hat, specifically I was 
downloaded FC3. I don't mind text-based installers like Debian has, but 
the FC3 GUI installer was quite nice.

I managed to actually get it to install, load x, but then I'm stuck in 
some sort of psuedo-desktop environment that I have no idea what to do 
with. It's kind of an off-color greenish-blue.

After some swearing and hair-pulling, I've readjusted the partition map 
on my primary hard disk so it'll be all-Windows and put in a second 
Serial ATA disk and formatted that for Debian. A $5 Linksys NIC card 
seems to be compatible (via the Tulip module) with the Debian 
net-installer, so it's actually installing. We'll see how that goes.

Having a hard disk for each system (Windows and Linux) would be 
exceptionally helpful and probably more fault-tolerant, as it'd ensure 
that each system doesn't accidentally write over the other system's 
files. It also gives me more (160Gb for Windows, 250Gb for Linux) disk 
space for both systems at the cost of slightly increasing the required 
cooling load for my system. Oh well. :)

Now that the net-installer seems to be working, I should probably go 
eat. Yeah, that'd be a good idea...

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Pete Stephenson
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