Author: Steve Cavers

I finally finished the installation, but with only the bare essentials. Unfortunately, I chose the wrong monitor type during the configuration stage, so now the GUI displays in a video mode that isn’t compatible with my monitor. Can’t read the GUI and can’t change the configuration.

Anyone have any hints?

Well my third try at installing Linux failed at Disc 3. This thing is buggier than a VW factory.

One more time…

After the install crashed, I had to restart it. It’s now happily churning away.

At this point, I have to say that, even though I gripe about the–

Oops. As I was typing that, there was another fatal error. Looks like I won’t be able to install Linux.

I have to say, they have a long way to go before they’re even remotely user-friendly. I have at least some experience with computers and disk partitions, and it’s still impossible for me to install.

I’m very close to giving up.

First problem. It won’t let me install the GUI interface — apparently I need a minimum of 256MB of RAM. I was under the impression that system requirements for Linux were less than Windows.

So I’m stuck with text only. And I haven’t a clue what the command syntax is. Oh this will be fun.

Well, today’s the day. Today I finally get to thumb my nose at Microsoft and install the penguin instead. That’s right– I’m moving to Linux.

Of course there’s only one small problem. Ha! Actually there are a lot of problems, but they all stem from the fact that I know nothing — abso-freakin-lutely nothing — about Linux.

I’m a DOS guy. I know DOS inside and out, backwards and forwards. If you looked inside my brain, you’d see a DOS prompt and the message Bad command or filename. So it’s only natural that I stayed safely within the Windows world.

So. I have an old Pentium and Red Hat Linux. Let’s see what this penguin can do.

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