Hi folks,
Well, I finally had time to reformat my desktop and reinstall Windows
and Linux. I decided to use the Windows disk to create two partitions
of approximately equal size (=2 x 95 gig). I then installed Windows
on the first partition, and had quite a time getting things to work.
For some reason the sound card would not work, even after installing
the drivers from HP's site. Then I added Real Player, rebooted, and
the sound card worked.
Next I tried installing PCLinuxOS, but it wouldn't work. I'd get to
the point where I was installing files, and every time I reached the
point where about 25% of the fies were copied, the system would
freeze, and nothing would prod it to move. Fine. I downloaded the 32
bit version of Ubuntu per the advice I got here, and I was able to
install. Things went much better this time. I was able to manually
install, which I couldn't do previously. I took the non-Windows drive
of about 95 gig and made two drives, one with about 85 gig and one
with about 10; I chose the / symbol for the larger drive and "swap"
for the other, and proceeded without trouble. (No, I didn't mean to
create such a large swap drive, but I didn't select the number of
megabytes correctly. Anyway, I have 85 gig to devote to Linux on this
PC, and I think that will suffice for a long time.)
Once again I've set up email, installed drivers that allow me to play
music CD's, and downloaded software allowing me to watch videos on
YouTube. I haven't figured out what to do so that I can listen to the
partial songs that you can preview on some CDs on Amazon's site. I
tried to install Real Player, but after I downloaded the Linux version
of the program I couldn't do anything with it. I double clicked and
got an error message.
I can't get a DVD to play, but from what I'm reading online I'm not
alone. I'm thinking about trying either Freespire or the pay version
known as Linspire. The latter is about $50.00, which will defeat my
dream of totally-free software, but what good is totally-free software
that I can't use fully? I'll start with Freespire, though, and hope
for the best. Hopefully I won't run into any problems installing it
on my laptop.
I went into the Synaptic Package Manager and, without a clue what I
was doing, managed to find and supposedly install Wine, but I can't
figure out how to make it work, or to get it to download any windows
programs. Is there a "Wine for Dummies" or some other book that tells
you what to do step by step in such a way that those new to Linux can
follow it? The program is not at all intuitive, at least not as far
as I'm concerned.
Well, that's it for now. It looks like Freespire is about done
downloading, so it's time to create another disk.
~Sean
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