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This post is titled My pursuit of Linux goodness... by author SoulJah.
The prospect of that has just gotten better. Now that my CD-Rom automagically is able to read CD's again, I went all crazy and burnt all the iso's I've been keeping aside for burning. First up is the Knoppix Live CD 3.6 iso. I've been having trouble with this distro going back since 3.2. Well, ok, I've ran 3.2 and 3.3 on a different system without a hitch, but it just doesn't seem to want to work with this laptop. Now that 3.6 has kernel 2.6.7 (I believe), it now works like a charm on this machine. This distro even piqued a co-worker's interest and copied it and was very much giddy playing around with it. In fact, I'm running Knoppix 3.6 right now, posting on Blogger with Mozilla browser. I haven't gotten around to installing anything yet, coz, frankly, I want to take it one step at a time.
Maybe I shouldn't be installing any programs for an OS that's running off of a CD mayhaps. Maybe I should be looking for a decent enough installable distro? Well, that's what I thought, but I'm still wary of installing anything coz yes, I admit I'm a n00b. Considering I've had success with using SuSE 9.0 Live Eval CD that came with Linux Format Magazine, I was eager to download SuSE personal 9.1 when it became available. Oh a sidenote, the personal, installable iso is a new addition to the SuSE family. Used to only have a network installation package and a Live Eval iso, no run-off-of-a-cd iso back then. On another, another sidenote, I wanted to offer SuSE Enterprise for this webserver this organization wanted us to quote, but Red Hat won the day. If it was my decision, I'd take SuSE hands down.
So yeah, back to the topic. Partitioned my HDD, leaving an empty 2.5 Gig space, and inserted the SuSE 9.1 installation CD and waited with abated breath. To my surprise and chagrin, the installation was the most beautiful thing I've ever encountered. I mean, when I "tried" to install Slackware 9.1, I basically had to learn everything about the naming convention of the logical hard disks and the significance. For instance hda1 to hda4 would be for the primary disk and hda5 to hda9 was for the logical disk, if memory serves me right. Then I had to pick the Swap partition and pick which filesystem best suited for my use, either reiserf, ext2 etc. Installing LILO, configuring LILO, I mean, it was hard work for a complete Linux n00b like me, and that's with a guiding hand from the Linux Format magazine which I also got the installation CD for Slackware 9.1 from. Hell, during Computer Science Architecture's assignment on how to dual boot Linux and Windows, it took like around two pages to explain fully how to do it step by step from a complete n00b's point of view.
Installing SuSE? The freespace that I left earlier, the 2.5 Gig one, I thought I had to do the same thing again, partitioning, swap thing, bla bla bla. Oh how wrong I was. The installer was more than able to handle it itself. Given it around 280+ MB for the swap space and leaving the rest for the linux filesystem, defaulting its choice to reiserf, I was mighty impresed. Giving the option of using GRUB or LILO or booting into SuSE from a floppy disk (which I wholeheartedly recommend as it won't mess with your MBR, master boot record), everything was laid out in a nice GUI, and you can click on it to change any option you want, without much of a hassle. Ah bliss... Those people at Novell deserve a kiss on their rings. In fact, you won't see a command line type thing during installation, apart from when it boots up to the installation GUI. Everything was up and running in an hour, which I could spare.
So here we go, delving into the world of Linux at last, at my own pace, at my own time. Glad to be able to join ya guys finally. Now to try out other flavors, maybe Slackware 10.0 or Knoppix STD or Mandrake or Fedora or, *gasp* Debian!?! Ok, I'm getting way in over my head... Slowly dude, slowly...
Maybe I shouldn't be installing any programs for an OS that's running off of a CD mayhaps. Maybe I should be looking for a decent enough installable distro? Well, that's what I thought, but I'm still wary of installing anything coz yes, I admit I'm a n00b. Considering I've had success with using SuSE 9.0 Live Eval CD that came with Linux Format Magazine, I was eager to download SuSE personal 9.1 when it became available. Oh a sidenote, the personal, installable iso is a new addition to the SuSE family. Used to only have a network installation package and a Live Eval iso, no run-off-of-a-cd iso back then. On another, another sidenote, I wanted to offer SuSE Enterprise for this webserver this organization wanted us to quote, but Red Hat won the day. If it was my decision, I'd take SuSE hands down.
So yeah, back to the topic. Partitioned my HDD, leaving an empty 2.5 Gig space, and inserted the SuSE 9.1 installation CD and waited with abated breath. To my surprise and chagrin, the installation was the most beautiful thing I've ever encountered. I mean, when I "tried" to install Slackware 9.1, I basically had to learn everything about the naming convention of the logical hard disks and the significance. For instance hda1 to hda4 would be for the primary disk and hda5 to hda9 was for the logical disk, if memory serves me right. Then I had to pick the Swap partition and pick which filesystem best suited for my use, either reiserf, ext2 etc. Installing LILO, configuring LILO, I mean, it was hard work for a complete Linux n00b like me, and that's with a guiding hand from the Linux Format magazine which I also got the installation CD for Slackware 9.1 from. Hell, during Computer Science Architecture's assignment on how to dual boot Linux and Windows, it took like around two pages to explain fully how to do it step by step from a complete n00b's point of view.
Installing SuSE? The freespace that I left earlier, the 2.5 Gig one, I thought I had to do the same thing again, partitioning, swap thing, bla bla bla. Oh how wrong I was. The installer was more than able to handle it itself. Given it around 280+ MB for the swap space and leaving the rest for the linux filesystem, defaulting its choice to reiserf, I was mighty impresed. Giving the option of using GRUB or LILO or booting into SuSE from a floppy disk (which I wholeheartedly recommend as it won't mess with your MBR, master boot record), everything was laid out in a nice GUI, and you can click on it to change any option you want, without much of a hassle. Ah bliss... Those people at Novell deserve a kiss on their rings. In fact, you won't see a command line type thing during installation, apart from when it boots up to the installation GUI. Everything was up and running in an hour, which I could spare.
So here we go, delving into the world of Linux at last, at my own pace, at my own time. Glad to be able to join ya guys finally. Now to try out other flavors, maybe Slackware 10.0 or Knoppix STD or Mandrake or Fedora or, *gasp* Debian!?! Ok, I'm getting way in over my head... Slowly dude, slowly...
Posted by SoulJah at 1:48:00 AM
