Posts by onewickedferret

It may be a bit biased, but he did go in full force trying to get this thing installed. He even IMed me in the middle of the night last night, and we spent several hours trying to get things set up in a working fashion. If I had had a...

How's the install been running abf? Been about 12 hours since your last post, figured i'd see if you have an update.

Awesome, glad to hear it. If you need any other help, be sure to let me know. You can message me on aim if you like. Also, maybe someday when I finally get native linux support for my damn oddball graphics card, you can give me...

Because you can, basically. Its fun to play with and see the different things. I once heard of a guy who had something like 30 OSes installed at one time, saw it on the screen savers a few years back, probably has more by now. Had his...

It is quite possible to do this, and in fact, you're in luck. Normally, HDs will only allow you to create four primary partitions, so with the four operating systems you want to install, you're all set. What you need to do is install...

Alright, you may have to try some boot options. How about nopcmcia or acpi=off? I believe f2 will give you a listing of boot options, you may have to play aroud with those. I know my laptop in particular has issues with pcmcia...

See if you can boot the CDs to another machine? Maybe the burn failed.

FC uses yum, which is basically a carbon copy of apt and works just as well, IMO. However, it doesnt have any good gui frontends like apt/synaptic, making it lacking in the visual department, otherwise the dependency hell isue has been...

Rawr, sorry abf, I hate to be a bitch, but that comment about "stock, untouched gnome" just irks me. Every distro customizes gnome, including ubuntu. Check out: http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopArtwork It has all their...

Linux actually runs on its own kind of partition, usually ext2 or ext3, though some like reiser. The only real reason you'd want a fat32 partion would be to make a common partiton to share data between your linux and windows installs....