More Linux

Friday night, tried a few more live distros -- Knoppix, one that starts with an ''A'', and a few others. All worked fine, in contrast to the other ones I'd tried: all the apps work, for example. Can save word processing documents to the floppy drive.

(A colleague pointed out that some older PCs don't like reading CD-RWs. Could be. Should try PuppyLinux and Elive again, with a CD-R [which was what the Elive website recommended, anyhow...].)

Tonight (Sunday), figured since the big machine didn't have any of my files on it anyhow, I'd try installing some of the Linux distros on the machine -- just going thru.

DeMuDi (sp?), an multimedia-oriented distro, and Mandriva 2005 and Mandrake 10.1 all partitioned the HD just fine, but failed to find the proper kernel (the ''guts'' of the operating system). Could be that this is a non-typical machine that isn't not covered in the list of options.

Funny that the live CDs worked just fine, but the ''install'' distros didn't. Hm.


So, my attempts at installing Linux have erased Windows XP. Now it's an OS-less box -- a blank slate.

Fun te experiment with, since I don't have any of my personal files on it. So whatever happens, whatever gets accidentally (or intentionally!) erased: No big deal.


--GG