Journal Keifer's Journal: Adventures with Linux...bleh 3
Over the past ~week, I've been able to narrow down my choice of distros. Actually, my first excursion into Linux goes back to ~6 months ago when Fedora Core 1 was released.
Becoming curious of the "next frontier" (Linux) and listening to Linux zealots here at
The Fedora installer froze right before the graphical part again and again. So I installed using the text installer (at this point a little worried) and when it was done and I was ready to boot, Fedora froze again at the first-boot-config-dealie screen. I googled and found that it was a vid card problem with 9800 PROs. Fuck. There was a way to manually download the drivers in text boot/mode/thing using wget, but I was/am too much of a noob at this new "Linux" thing to follow instructions to configure my connection. Frustrated as hell, I lost interest.
Fast forwared to a few days ago, and the beginning of the journal...
Exploring my distro options, I was able to narrow my choices down to SuSE Personal and Debian (via Knoppix, which I already had).
Both SuSE and Debian, as well as any distro, are no-go's. I wasn't able to resize my Windows partition (while in the SuSE/Knoppix installer) to make room for the Linux partition(s), because it gave my some bullshit about not being able to fool with that partition while it was mounted.
So I turned to Windows for a program to resize teh partition. It ends up that none of the shareware/"try before you buy" partiton manager software will let you actually _do_ anything without buying it. Also, the only freeware partition dealie I found with Google wouldn't work with NTFS. WTF.
Next, I was reccomended Parted (for *nix). I tried it with Knoppix, but couldn't get it to compile despite lotsa Googling.
Linux is now on hold until I come across a way to resize my Windows (NTFS) partition. *over and out*
FYI: knoppix comes with qtparted (Score:2)
Re:FYI: knoppix comes with qtparted (Score:1)
Re:FYI: knoppix comes with qtparted (Score:1)
Nobody will probably read this, but I tried QTParted with System Rescue Disk (based on Gentoo or something) and it worked. ^_^
But now I can't boot from CD (or at least the SuSE 9.1 Personal install disk). Bleh.
So I Googled around and found Smart BootManager [sourceforge.net]...but I can't get it to install on a floppy disk. More bleh.