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Aug. 7th, 2002 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hyurilovely.
having found a working hard drive, I finally decided to install linux (again) last week. unfortunately, the latest distribution I had on disc was Slackware 7.1--a two-year-old distribution featuring kernel 2.2.16, glibc 2.1.3, and XFree86 4.0. not a good start, but enough to get it running. little did I know...
this was the beginning of a very ugly cycle: install linux; download updates; attempt to install said updates (sometimes successfully); break system; attempt to recover; break system even further; format drive; repeat. after seven, fifteen-hour days of this, I gave up and downloaded the Slackware 8.1 ISO, transferred it to our Win2k machine and burned it to disc. problem solved, ne?
I only wish.
as testing on the aforementioned Win2k system showed the disc worked, I deleted the image. I popped the new disc in my main system, rebooted--and watched the system boot into Windows, having failed to find a bootable CD-ROM. Not Good.
another day and a half of tinkering with the innards has shown that my (currently irreplaceable due to unavoidable financial conditions [read: I'm broke]) DVD-ROM is taking a shit.
ah well, as long as I can still watch movies on it I'll deal.
[addendum, 06/06/2003: wasn't the DVD-ROM, it was the power supply]
having found a working hard drive, I finally decided to install linux (again) last week. unfortunately, the latest distribution I had on disc was Slackware 7.1--a two-year-old distribution featuring kernel 2.2.16, glibc 2.1.3, and XFree86 4.0. not a good start, but enough to get it running. little did I know...
this was the beginning of a very ugly cycle: install linux; download updates; attempt to install said updates (sometimes successfully); break system; attempt to recover; break system even further; format drive; repeat. after seven, fifteen-hour days of this, I gave up and downloaded the Slackware 8.1 ISO, transferred it to our Win2k machine and burned it to disc. problem solved, ne?
I only wish.
as testing on the aforementioned Win2k system showed the disc worked, I deleted the image. I popped the new disc in my main system, rebooted--and watched the system boot into Windows, having failed to find a bootable CD-ROM. Not Good.
another day and a half of tinkering with the innards has shown that my (currently irreplaceable due to unavoidable financial conditions [read: I'm broke]) DVD-ROM is taking a shit.
ah well, as long as I can still watch movies on it I'll deal.
[addendum, 06/06/2003: wasn't the DVD-ROM, it was the power supply]
