So I bought that new hard drive finally. I’ve wanted to buy it for a while now. I wanted it so I can mess around with Linux and here I am typing this from Ubuntu. I chose Ubuntu because I’ve heard a lot of talk about it recently and a friend who just switched to it 2 weeks ago recommended it. The install wasn’t particularly difficult, learned some new things.
Dual boot didn’t work at first tho, I bought a new HD to mess with Linux to protect my windows HD so it doesn’t get corrupted. GRUB, the boot utility didn’t start up windows, but if I told the BIOS to start up with my windows hard drive, it would boot into xp fine, a big “phew”. I got really lucky tho, I messed around with gaim, the *nix equivalent to a multi-protocol messenger like Miranda, I logged into some irc channels that I am usually at, and proclaimed “so this is irc on gaim”. Some helpful fellow responds by asking me if i was running gaim on windows or Linux, to which I replied “Linux, this is my first distro”, and lo and behold, he managed to help me get GRUB to start up my xp properly. I was thinking fixing this would take all day but in his own words, he was the “GRUB master”. Thanks a lot to benanne, my dual boot works perfectly now.
So far so good in Linux land! 
… still don’t have sound tho LOL
EDIT: w00t w00t, sound works now, had to compile some sound drivers, kinda lame you still need to compile stuff in order for things to work but at least I have sound now 
2 Responses to “My very first Linux”
-
on 02 May 2005 at 2:21 pm Friendly Neighborhood Lun4tic
-
on 02 May 2005 at 2:27 pm Danny
