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boring computer blather
Apr. 12th, 2008 01:43 pmmy computer likes me a lot more today than it does yesterday.
i've had an idle curiosity for a while to screw around with linux on my computer...but i'm a total noob when it comes to computer stuff other than websurfing, email, and other common applications-type pursuits. i didn't trust myself to partition my hard drive and all that gobbledygook.
i found out a couple days ago that one of the flavours of linux, ubuntu, now has a windows-based installer...which allows you to install it and uninstall it as if it is an application. it runs a little more slowly than if it were installed as an OS, but it's good for messing around, and enough for me to learn some stuff about running linux and to give me an idea if i like it or not.
i'm not willing to do anything resembling wiping my hard drive or making major changes to it this close to finals. that would, clearly, be a bad idea since i'm not a computer geek goddess. i don't have faith in myself to fix things quickly or efficiently if they go wrong. so, the windows-based installer was a rather exciting find.
but yesterday, it wasn't working...i burned the CD image, but during the installation i hit a problem that i had no idea how to get past. it just wouldn't let me past one of the stages of the installation. luckily...i got it to work this morning thanks to helpful people on the ubuntu forums pointing me to the right place of the bug documentation.
i felt stupid, but at least i got it to work. it's not like there's fully coherent documentation yet; the version that you can install this way is still in beta, and will be for the next two weeks. it is probably a bad idea for a computer idiot like me to use anything "beta", but we'll see how this works.
so, long story short...the first episode of the persecuted crack smoker's Big Linux Experiment, installing it, is now a success.
i've had an idle curiosity for a while to screw around with linux on my computer...but i'm a total noob when it comes to computer stuff other than websurfing, email, and other common applications-type pursuits. i didn't trust myself to partition my hard drive and all that gobbledygook.
i found out a couple days ago that one of the flavours of linux, ubuntu, now has a windows-based installer...which allows you to install it and uninstall it as if it is an application. it runs a little more slowly than if it were installed as an OS, but it's good for messing around, and enough for me to learn some stuff about running linux and to give me an idea if i like it or not.
i'm not willing to do anything resembling wiping my hard drive or making major changes to it this close to finals. that would, clearly, be a bad idea since i'm not a computer geek goddess. i don't have faith in myself to fix things quickly or efficiently if they go wrong. so, the windows-based installer was a rather exciting find.
but yesterday, it wasn't working...i burned the CD image, but during the installation i hit a problem that i had no idea how to get past. it just wouldn't let me past one of the stages of the installation. luckily...i got it to work this morning thanks to helpful people on the ubuntu forums pointing me to the right place of the bug documentation.
i felt stupid, but at least i got it to work. it's not like there's fully coherent documentation yet; the version that you can install this way is still in beta, and will be for the next two weeks. it is probably a bad idea for a computer idiot like me to use anything "beta", but we'll see how this works.
so, long story short...the first episode of the persecuted crack smoker's Big Linux Experiment, installing it, is now a success.
