But the main installation is finished. I need to find the CD for our wireless router, because that’s where I have the password and such written down. Right now, the Linux installation will work fine in off-line mode, and it’ll work fine when I plug it into the router, but I’d like to get it working on wireless. And then I’ll try installing some other programs on it, so I can start programming and playing around with some of the other goodies now available.
But, aside from fine tuning, this task is done.
Feb 26, 2011, 08:12AM PST | 0 comments
I got a new laptop way back in April. It originally had Windows Vista on it, but I decided that Vista sucked far worse than almost any operating system I’d used previously, and most of my hardware would not work with it. So I spent a while getting the beast downgraded to Windows XP, with no help whatsoever from Dell. While I was downgrading it, I divided the 300 GB hard drive into three partitions. I put 150 GB into a non-system data partition, 50 GB into the Windows XP partition, and I left 100 GB free with the idea that I would install Ubuntu Linux on it and create a dual-boot system. I downloaded what was then the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu, but I never burned the CD and did the installation. I really should get off my ass and just get it done. A project for the weekend, methinks…
Dec 29, 2009, 09:53PM PST | 2 comments
