well, i don’t know… number 3 seems to have failed to arrive. I can’t say I am entirely disappointed.
So, on Friday, I decided it would be a good day to format my hard
drive, and reinstall windows and all that. Since much to my
disappointment, my ethernet card is actually broken, and it’s not just
Windows being dumb, and I therefore still could not use it online, I
decided what the heck, I’d download a linux iso on my powerbook, burn a
cd, and install it.
Anyway, first I tried out Mandrake Linux, which was working pretty
well, except apparently installing a Linksys wireless card in Linux
requires extensive knowledge.
Not completely satisfied with Mandrake, and having stumbled upon a
website about a newer distro, called YOPER, and having an interest in
it sparked, I decided to give it a try.
It actually looks really nice and functions pretty well…. but
was a little more difficult to set up. For one, you have to
manually set your resolution capabilities manually in this config
utility… which isn’t hard, but uhh.. it confused me for awhile why i
couldn’t get my resolution above 640×480…. The next
exciting thing was trying to get Windows to boot again. For some
reason, the boot loader didn’t automatically have Windows as an
option…. and it took far longer then it should have to figure
it out. I was confused at first because both my hds are on my
secondary IDE, and so they are /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd… you know,
instead of /dev/hda…. yeah. and so i was all “What do you
mean there’s no hda! there is an hda!” But I admit it, I
was wrong…. there is no hda. Only an hdc. By the
time I figured this out, my boot loader’s probe button had royally
screwed up my lilo config, and so… I had to rewrite it from
scratch… which was certainly enjoyable.
Now I can access my windows partition, but for some reason Windows decided to break itself, and so now I am reinstalling it.
On the plus side, except for reinstalling Windows… this has
been at least moderately entertaining… since i have my powerbook to
do things on and therefore don’t get too frustrated with my other
computer not working completely.