Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Linux

I finally gave up on trying to repair my old windows XP desktop. It was struggling along but finally bit the bullet last night. It froze and when I tried to restart, it said it had a disk failure. Nothing would fix it and I could not reload and backup images on it.

I unplugged the bad drive, jumpered my old "E" internal drive as a "master", downloaded openSUSE 1.4 and stuck the disk in. It opened and offered to install. It is now working (I am on it) and I am working through some little difficulties. I am a complete novice with Linux so I am starting at the beginning.

Norma is busy cleaning the motorhome for the fifteenth time so I am hiding in the computer room.
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4 comments:

  1. DonNovember 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM

    LOL, I'd be hiding too! Especially considering the earlier post about loading the motorhome.

    Good luck with Linux.

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  2. Pat TorivioNovember 1, 2011 at 8:30 PM

    What was you deciding factor on openSUSE? I've installed UBUNTU on my spare PC to play around with. Considered moving completely over to it.

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  3. CroftNovember 1, 2011 at 9:15 PM

    It was the recommendation of Stan on the Escapees Forum. I have no experience with it at all so I am starting with a blank slate.

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  4. living.boondockingmexicoNovember 2, 2011 at 6:11 PM

    Any travel plans yet?

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