well, i don’t know… number 3 seems to have failed to arrive. I can’t say I am entirely disappointed.<\/p>\n
So, on Friday, I decided it would be a good day to format my hard
\ndrive, and reinstall windows and all that. Since much to my
\ndisappointment, my ethernet card is actually broken, and it’s not just
\nWindows being dumb, and I therefore still could not use it online, I
\ndecided what the heck, I’d download a linux iso on my powerbook, burn a
\ncd, and install it.<\/p>\n
Anyway, first I tried out Mandrake Linux, which was working pretty
\nwell, except apparently installing a Linksys wireless card in Linux
\nrequires extensive knowledge.<\/p>\n
Not completely satisfied with Mandrake, and having stumbled upon a
\nwebsite about a newer distro, called YOPER, and having an interest in
\nit sparked, I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n
It actually looks really nice and functions pretty well…. but
\nwas a little more difficult to set up. For one, you have to
\nmanually set your resolution capabilities manually in this config
\nutility… which isn’t hard, but uhh.. it confused me for awhile why i
\ncouldn’t get my resolution above 640×480…. The next
\nexciting thing was trying to get Windows to boot again. For some
\nreason, the boot loader didn’t automatically have Windows as an
\noption…. and it took far longer then it should have to figure
\nit out. I was confused at first because both my hds are on my
\nsecondary IDE, and so they are \/dev\/hdc and \/dev\/hdd… you know,
\ninstead of \/dev\/hda…. yeah. and so i was all “What do you
\nmean there’s no hda! there is an hda!” But I admit it, I
\nwas wrong…. there is no hda. Only an hdc. By the
\ntime I figured this out, my boot loader’s probe button had royally
\nscrewed up my lilo config, and so… I had to rewrite it from
\nscratch… which was certainly enjoyable.<\/p>\n
Now I can access my windows partition, but for some reason Windows decided to break itself, and so now I am reinstalling it.<\/p>\n
On the plus side, except for reinstalling Windows… this has
\nbeen at least moderately entertaining… since i have my powerbook to
\ndo things on and therefore don’t get too frustrated with my other
\ncomputer not working completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading <\/span>