Leapfrog's Journal: new toys!

The drive has arrived. Yay!
I was able to save the stuff I wanted from the old drive. Double Yay!
Now I get to reinstall my OSes. Err.. yay?

I was just thinking how long it has been since I did an install from scratch. And already, I've messed up the order of installation. (Okay, I'll admit it- there are rare occasions when I must use a Win32 OS. For instance, it was required to register the DSL connection with the provider.) So I installed Debian first. Hopefully, I'll be able to get Win98 to install without it eating the MBR (not bloody likely). Not too much of a hassle, I already partitioned the drive properly, but an irritation if I have to dig up a boot disk to reinstall grub.

I was pleasantly surprised with the new features in the Debian install. I think it may have been a mistake to select the "Desktop Workstation" option, as I know from experience that my 300 Mhz system does not handle Gnome or KDE well at all. So, there will be some package-management in the very near future to install and setup Windowmaker (or maybe Blackbox. I always liked Blackbox.) so as not to kill the system every time I log in.

In any case, I no longer have to worry about selecting too many packages. I now have Enormous Cosmic Space.* Yay!

* Okay, I know that 40Gb is not really Enormous Cosmic Space. It still feels that way to me.