tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88471922011-09-04T12:27:55.941-07:00My adventures in Linux and using it to save one poor negelcted laptop.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168177837764165626noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847192.post-1100257337452425262004-11-12T03:55:00.000-07:002004-11-12T04:02:17.453-07:00

Over the past week I have tried Debian, Red Hat 9.0 and Slackware. The end result. I'm back with Vector. It seems the most stable and easiest to use. Tomorrow I'm going to do some customization. Uninstall some uneeded programs and maybe add a few. Right now the ultimate goal is to make this laptop usable for writing. (I write Science Fiction short stories). I was also going to install Fedora

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After 7 attempted installations of Linux today I've come away tired and hoping my laptop isn't busted. I started with Slackware this morning. Tried it 3 times and I just couldn't get it to work. I need to learn what packages I do and don't need better because I kept installing to much. Next I re-intalled VectorLinux but it turns out I used the wrong disk and installed 4.0 instead of 4.3. So I

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01168177837764165626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8847192.post-1099862792225000312004-11-07T14:24:00.000-07:002004-11-07T14:26:32.226-07:00

I started installing slackware. I got quite a ways throught the installation and it tells me ther isn't enough hard disk space. I'll wait until another to install Slackware because I have more stuff I have to do today. I'll just go back to Vector.

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Slackware 10 is downloaded. I Decided only to download disks 1 & 2. Tomorrow I will be spending my after church hours (after 3:30 pm) installing Slackware. I here it can be difficult to install but difficult is what I live for. For me, working on a computer problem is almost zen like.

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I've tried posting the pictures. Well, let's just say with everything google does really good, posting pictures on to a blog sucks. So what I'm going to do is try to find an online picture sharing service and just post the link when there are new pictures. It's not the best but what can I say. On another note I found an FTP server that actually has the Slackware 10 ISO's to download instead of

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I got my $20 digital camera. The pictures come out pretty crappy but what can you expect from a $20 camera. I've been trying to post them but you have to use a seperate service called Hello to upload the pictures and it keeps encountering a server error. I will work on it tomorrow and hopefully put some pictures up Also I got CD 1 of Slackware downloaded and am working on downloading CD 2.

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I've got Slackware Disk 1 at 75.9% completed from bittorrent. I started last night about 11:30 pm so at this rate it'll take about 24 hours a cd. I'm going to get on later and see about a different bittorrent client. Hopefully it'll work faster because with 4 cd's to download it could take forever. Soon I will be able to include digital photos. I convinced my parents to get me a $20 digital

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I've started downloading Slackware 10.0. I'm excited but it might take a few days. The only way to download Slackware is from Bittorrent. I'm using the Bittornado Client which lets you change the settings to get optimal download rates. But it still says it will take anywhere from 12-36 hours to downlaod and that's only for CD 1 and there's 4 CD's. Well, patience is a virtue.

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Here is a paragraph I saw on the Distrowatch.com website We urge our visitors to boycott LINUXTODAY.COM. LINUXTODAY.COM is currently sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and displays sponsored anti-Linux content on its web site. We consider this practice immoral and hypocritical for a web site that acts as a Linux advocacy resource. PLEASE DO NOT VISIT LINUXTODAY.COM. I checked out this claim and

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I just finished installing FireFox on my laptop and I must say I was plesantly surprised. Instead of most linux software that you have to compile from source FireFox actually has an installer. You uncompress the file to whatever dircetory you have it in (/usr/local/src in my case) open up your file browser, head to the firefox-installer folder (/usr/local/src/firefox-installer) , click on the

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This post is for anyone who might be dissapointed with the fact that I don't have any information on putting linux on a laptop with only a 25-30 mhz processor about 4MB RAM and about 170-200MB Hard Drive. Here's a HOWTO on Linux.org called the 4mb-laptop HOWTO. Enjoy

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The RPM's don't work on my system, of course they were designed for Fedora Core and Red Hat not Slackware and Vector Linux. To bad. Althought the nice people LinuxQuestions.org pointed me to LinuxPackages.net which has a ton of Slackware Packages and I'm sure Vector will get more packages as Vector Linux 4.3 Matures. The one thing I like about open-source software is that, unlike the careful

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I discovered a new feature. Debian and Red Hat/Fedora can take their single package systems and shove it. Vectorlinux comes with 2 package managers. It has it's own Vecpkg tool for VectorLinux Packages but it also comes with pkgtool under VASM for Slackware Packages. If you use VL the slackware version is 9.1 so you can look for those on the Slackware site. Well gtg I'm going to use pkgtool to

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I got VL 4.3 installed. I got a kodak plus digital disposable camera and got most of the process on film. However I ran out as I started going through the best new feature of version 4.3. That new feature is that the VL team got rid of the out dated Red Hat Sound Configuration tool and opted to use ALSA. One of my biggest problems was that I couldn't get the sound to work and i was going to try

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Right now I'm downloading VectorLinux version 4.3. Since there was a request for pictures I will get a disposable camera tomorrow and take pictures of the installation and get a picture disk with it when I get it developed. Just be patient I'll get those pictures up as soon as i can pay to have them developed.

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I found an easier way to get LiLO working without having to re-install Vector Linux. I found that you can use the install cd as a boot disk so at the start-up prompt I put in linux root=/dev/hda2 (where linux is installed on my hard drive) and hit enter. Once I got to shell I logged on as root and ran /sbin/liloconfig to setup lilo. Now I can tackle my next major problem, audio. I tried

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Hello in Blogging Land. Here is my blog on my efforts to resurrect an old laptop. I've had it for a couple months now and I thought I would give some background and the current state. Background I got and NEC Ready 120LT for helping repair someones pc. The perks of beeing a neighborhood geeky is that you commonly get paid for services with old equipment. The system specs are A Cyrix 200Mhz

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