we've all been at the beginning of my story... Sitting in the chair.. blank
look on your face then all of a sudden IT DOES IT AGAIN!!! ARGH. that
annoying BSOD. One day you decide yoiu've had enough. that's it. Where's
the number to the computer store to see if they have a Linux distro that'll
work with your machine.
After about 3 weeks of spending nearly every free moment trying to get
just one little last detail of my system to work ...my fileserving script on
mIRC / or a clone thereof for a *nix client... I'm about tearing my hair
out. first off was the disappointment of Wine not liking Mandrake_Desk (the
menu part of it) and crashing with a whole whopping 6 minute record of
emulation (i got 3 hours on redhat... but my soundcard doesn't work with
their distro). Last week it was fighting with bochs-1.4 and finally giving
up after sitting here for days just trying to get it to load some kind of
boot floppy or image of one to make an image of a windows install. I still
haven't got the slightest clue why that won't work. The third option,
finding a script for kvIRC/BitchX/ircII/epic_ircII/kIRC/smIRC/x-chat/etc has
turned out to be about the most frustrating. Do *nix'ers not do
filesharing? i found one script that was half there (no kind of listmaker
for an index of your files) and one that I can't get the installer binary to
open even after having downloaded/configured/compiled/installed all the
latest versions of c... c++.. compilers... parsers...fortran.. perl, python,
and tcl/tk et cetera, trying different shells... (yep... i checked the
permissions.. .it's 777).
so... here i am back in Winblows writing this on OutCast Express 'cause
i don't feel like re-installing linux for the 4th time in 3 days (at least
it's pretty easy to do with those replay discs). I know.. it's just one
chat room out of a million that i can't work with.. but it's a lot of
friends in there too. I like Linux when it's running smooth. I had my last
linux box up for months without a reboot.
So.. I guess my question comes down to 2 things.. does anyone have
either a fileserving script for x-chat or ircII(or its clones) or a disk
image of a running windows 98 with samba access... or any resources they
could point me towards. If it's going to cost me 300 dollars to get VMware
Workstation, I think I'll just deal with the BSOD. (at least i got mine to
be green instead of blue lol).
oops i wrote a book. i'll shut up
now.
thx in advance! if there's an
answer it's here.
Jerry.
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