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ALRIGHT, I'm doing it, going for it, right now....
2004-03-19, 2:43 PM #1
I'm backing up everything from my laptop that's important to me. Anyone care to guess why?

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2004-03-19, 2:45 PM #2
you're throwing it in the fire?

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2004-03-19, 2:48 PM #3
Formatting?

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2004-03-19, 2:51 PM #4
I'll go for: "Thorwing it off thr roof of a skyscraper"

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2004-03-19, 2:52 PM #5
Installing a *real* OS, such as Linux?

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2004-03-19, 2:56 PM #6
geting a new version of windows and a new laptop.

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2004-03-19, 3:04 PM #7
[http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-03-19, 3:34 PM #8
Installing Windows in general?

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2004-03-19, 3:34 PM #9
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Installing a *real* OS, such as Linux?

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With Windows partition for gaming.

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2004-03-19, 3:37 PM #10
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Installing a *real* OS, such as Linux?

</font>


Correct, you get a cookie.

Now off to find a distro... Mandrake 10 looks nice, with the 2.6 kernel and all, but I haven't heard good things about Mandrake. Here's the laptop's specs:

Pentium III 650MHz
256MB RAM
6 GB HDD
ATI Mobility M1 Graphics
Netgear 802.11g PC Card

I just wanna use it to get to know linux, and learn some Perl or PHP, still haven't decided which.

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-19, 3:39 PM #11
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dj Yoshi:
With Windows partition for gaming.

</font>



Only a 6 GB HDD, so no windows. If I wanna play games I'll use my desktop, as most everything runs terribly on the 8MB 3D card.

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-19, 3:39 PM #12
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by NoESC:
I'm backing up everything from my laptop that's important to me. Anyone care to guess why?

</font>


I was going to guess because you didn't want your mom to find all your porn.....

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2004-03-19, 3:46 PM #13
The porn is elsewhere.

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-19, 3:49 PM #14
Mandrake is no good for that system. Mandrake works best on a *high end* system.

The way I see it, youve got 2 options.. Debian, via a Knoppix hdd install, or Suse. Either should auto-detect all your hardware just fine....

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[This message has been edited by GBK (edited March 19, 2004).]
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2004-03-19, 3:50 PM #15
[edit]Nevermind[/edit]

Yeah I think I'm going to do Knoppix HDD install, although it doesn't support my Wifi card [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif].

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[This message has been edited by NoESC (edited March 19, 2004).]
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-19, 3:52 PM #16
Knoppix LiveCD HDD install found my WiFi perfectly. Maybe you're just weird.
2004-03-19, 3:55 PM #17
If you're a seasoned Linux user, throw the latest Slackware on it. It's 9 currently. I've seen Slackware run well on low-end systems. The reason why I say seasoned is because you pretty much have to do hardware configuration yourself. Which means you edit the modules.conf, the rc.modules script, get the Linux drivers, and when absolutely necessary, recompile a kernel. That's always fun.

Yeah I suggest Debian, Knoppix for you. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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[This message has been edited by Gandalf1120 (edited March 19, 2004).]
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2004-03-19, 4:00 PM #18
Just booted into the CD. I said I wanted Wifi, and linux growled at me and said no [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]. I'm looking for a reason on google. The card is a Netgear WG511 PCMCIA 802.11g card. Thanks for your help all.

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-19, 4:10 PM #19
Addicted.... to.... FROZEN BUBBLE

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-19, 4:19 PM #20
Yes, yes, Frozen Bubble is quite easy to get addicted to... Infact, when you exit, ie prints "Addicted for xxx minutes"...


Conincidentally, Frozen Bubble was written in Perl... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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The future is here, and all bets are off.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-03-19, 4:23 PM #21
Perl can do THAT?!?

Wow, screw PHP then.

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-19, 4:34 PM #22
Yes, it can do that, and alot more... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-03-19, 4:37 PM #23
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by NoESC:
[edit]Nevermind[/edit]

Yeah I think I'm going to do Knoppix HDD install, although it doesn't support my Wifi card [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif].

</font>


Don't worry, it didn't support mine either...

Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
Perl can do THAT?!?

Wow, screw PHP then.
</font>


IGNORANCE ALERT. IGNORANCE ALERT.

PHP is designed for the web, Perl does more in-house system stuff (like practical extracting and reporting), and some web stuff.




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2004-03-19, 4:43 PM #24
Yes, I know lat. I'm coming from VB so that's the sorta thing I want to get into.

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-19, 7:25 PM #25
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by NoESC:
Addicted.... to.... FROZEN BUBBLE

</font>


Whats frozen Bubble??

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2004-03-19, 7:51 PM #26
I hear FreeBSD is good. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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[This message has been edited. Deal with it.]
2004-03-20, 3:24 AM #27
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by BurrBoy:
Whats frozen Bubble??

</font>


I'm a link.

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-20, 6:05 AM #28
DON'T USE GENTOO!!! Aaaaahh!!!!

(Unless you know exactly what you're doing. My Linux geek friend convinced me to use Gentoo instead of something else. I need HELP!!!

But whatever.

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2004-03-20, 6:09 AM #29
Knoppix finds my WiFi perfectly, I love it!

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2004-03-20, 7:22 AM #30
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SMOCK!:
...My Linux geek friend convinced me to use Gentoo instead of something else. I need HELP!!!</font>


Try hdd installing Knoppix...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-03-20, 9:23 AM #31
Knoppix HDD install, and no root password, this didn't seem to provide what I wanted. So I loaded Mandrake 10. It works great except my wifi card, which sucks as I have no other ethernet that I can use with it. I have a Microsoft wired card but I doubt Linux supports that :P. Oh well back to messing with the wireless.... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-20, 9:28 AM #32
Bah, try your Microsoft card anyway, you never know.

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2004-03-20, 9:31 AM #33
Yeah I just might, thing is it detected my card. It thinks it's a D-Link but I guess they just use the same chipset. I'm messing with the settings a bit, maybe I'll get something working.

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-20, 9:39 AM #34
It gets stuck bringing up interface eth0.

Sits there for a while. Then says:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

failed.

What should I do. Having the wifi working is a MUST.

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-20, 9:56 AM #35
A quick Google search turned up this, although Im not sure if itll help.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-03-20, 10:00 AM #36
Sadly I don't understand much of that, and I have NEVER compiled a kernel, that could be interesting, although I'm pretty sure I loaded the sources in case I need to.

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gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2004-03-20, 10:34 AM #37
Compiling a kernel isn't too difficult... just find a good tutorial. And I'm not sure what you're talking about Knoppix's harddrive install not having a root password... when you install it it asks you for one.

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2004-03-20, 11:02 AM #38
You do realize you can set a root password in Knoppix very easily, right?

su
passwd
EnterPasswordHere
You're done.

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2004-03-20, 11:15 AM #39
Well I didn't actually try it. But from what I see about my wireless card they only have "stable" drivers for the 2.6 kernel. Not that they work or anything... I REALLY don't want to have to load Windows, but that's what it's looking like.

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-20, 2:35 PM #40
Windows is installing [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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