gargan's Journal: fuck

damnit. every fucking time.

so i get tired of suse not letting me install anything because yast is stupid, and i try to install slackware 10.

the only reason suse worked on my machine was because it has a safe boot option, which disables DMA, which apparently is what has been making my computer unstable.

whenever i try to install linux or even windows it gives me weird random errors about packages not being able to be installed or being corrupt, and the slackware installer eventually just hangs. suse did the same until i used safe mode install, and it worked fine since then, albeit a little slow, but yast is stupid and wont let me install anything because of dependencies and wont let me set a remote install directory to one of the official suse mirrors so as to resolve said dependencies and overall just isnt my kind of distro.

so now im stuck. i dont think suse will boot anymore because slack is half installed over it, and slack wont finish installing, so i type this from good ol' knoppix, which recently underwent improvements which allow me to very easily use my modem and dial my isp, but it is a bitch getting it set up again every time i reboot. so i guess i'll go for some uptime.