Saturday 04 November, 2006 at 7:13:14 pm
filed under personal, software
I finally decided to bite the bullet today and install linux on my machine. After 10 hair-raising minutes during which BootIt NG squashed my sole partition to free up some space, I had three pristine gigabytes of space to play with. I rebooted into Windows (which inexplicably is convinced that it still owns the entire 18 gigs) and downloaded my Debian netinst CD. Installation proceeded smoothly (except for the occasional comment from my sister: “that’s weird!” “why would you ever want that on your computer?”) and I was soon ready to start downloading packages. It was at that point that I remembered that I was connecting through a wireless network, for which I no longer had drivers. After digging up a few bundles of ethernet cable and contemplating a restructure of our entire home network (a bigger undertaking than it sounds for reasons best not discussed here) I gave up and decided to call it a day. If I have some free time tomorrow I should be able to work this out. At any rate, I now truly have a (small, crippled and effectively useless) copy of linux on my machine.
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