Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, February 3, 2005 9:19 pm, Robert Himmelmann said:I am still (and have been for the last 10 years) in the phase where I am playing so much with the system that it will break after some time but can't repair it. It has cost my father quite some time to repair my computer when I was of the age where I could only install and play games. The problems I have are often rather obscure: Once X refused to work for some unknown reason (At that time I did not know that there are log files), sometimes the mouse breaks down during an X session or instead of the boot loader I get a shell on which none of the commands I try works. Reformatting always helps. ;)
Ok, you can do that with a 80Gb hardisk. I have only 40Gb and half of
them are used by windows. This setup is also a bit to difficult for me
because I have to format either windows or GNU/Linux every few months
because some part doesn't work properly anymore.
that may be the case with windows, but you should always be able to fix
linux :-)
exactlyOK if you are space challenged you can probably get away with 4-5 G -
do without either gnome or kde (or both, xfce4 is fantastic)
alternatively, ditch windows, or get a second hard drive, they really are
not hugely expensive (or do you have a laptop?)
I am currently experimenting with qemu. There are some things left I can not (yet) run with GNU/Linux: Flash, 3D, my SD-cardreader, iTunes, ArcSoft Panorama Maker and some games.
-- Happy Hacking, Robert
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