I win, I win, what's my prize, what's my prize?
I recently bought this new Sony VAIO laptop (and I think I so totally finally understand the vaio logo...analog sine wave then digital digits...it's all technolicious) and the first thing I did with it when I got it home (after making the factory revory disk because they found its cheaper to have you burn a dvd using the computer's software than for them to provide the install disks and drivers with every machine) was to try to get linux on it.
I wanted as little driver conflict as possible, so I installed Fedora Core 4. Install went well, but there was a pcmcia problem. Fedora doesn't provide an automatic "type nopcmcia" prompt anywhere so I was too lazy to force it and thought it would be easier to run a live cd distro and see what I got. I put in Slax (based off of slackware) and it gave the same error during boot. I restarted and passed the "slax nopcmcia" command and it booted...but looked like suck. The resolution was all fun and what not and there was no sound nor could it find my onboard wireless card. I have a card that's found in linux off the bat, but hey, I don't have pcmcia enabled, so...crap.
I try knoppix 3.3 and knoppix std live disks...no problem with pcmcia there. Resolution, sound and wireless still angry at me, though.
I try FreeBSD 5, it can't deal with the harddrive geometry.
I try Slackware 10.1, similar harddrive problem on install.
In total, I installed like 6 different OSs 2 times each on the machine. No dice. Good thing I made that recovery CD before I wiped the drive. Also, the sony recovery disk reformats your whole HDD. It will remake the factory partitions and all. So I would have been mad to have gotten a working and configured install of linux/unix just for windows to chomp it up when I attempted to make a dual boot system. Grahh!
I consider returning the sony and buying an IBM I know will run Slack just fine, but I'm stubborn. This computer is too pretty. It's like the girl who is beautiful and nice and smart but isn't interested in the same things you are into no matter how much to try to coax her. I won't give her up just for that.
So I install Virtual PC and make a virtual slack drive and use a slax bootdisk as an iso as a secondary and use Qemu to emulate mandrake 10. I am setting up the methods to get data on and off of those virtual drives now. I also installed Cygwin and loaded it with all of my linux utils for development and whatnot and even installed KDE3.4 http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/installation.php so X-server runs over windows...Score! I also install Unxutils so I have a unix shell that can run over Dos and cmd. hehehe.
Take that, Microsoft, by your own devices I have turned your own operating system to linux(ish)! Mwahahaha. It now compiles and runs almost anything I ever need and I can run it in KDE...hehe. I have Won! Back to development now that I am done with 8 days of configuration to get this computer to do exactly what I need it to!
*sigh* I feel like such a @#$%ing geek right now.
I wanted as little driver conflict as possible, so I installed Fedora Core 4. Install went well, but there was a pcmcia problem. Fedora doesn't provide an automatic "type nopcmcia" prompt anywhere so I was too lazy to force it and thought it would be easier to run a live cd distro and see what I got. I put in Slax (based off of slackware) and it gave the same error during boot. I restarted and passed the "slax nopcmcia" command and it booted...but looked like suck. The resolution was all fun and what not and there was no sound nor could it find my onboard wireless card. I have a card that's found in linux off the bat, but hey, I don't have pcmcia enabled, so...crap.
I try knoppix 3.3 and knoppix std live disks...no problem with pcmcia there. Resolution, sound and wireless still angry at me, though.
I try FreeBSD 5, it can't deal with the harddrive geometry.
I try Slackware 10.1, similar harddrive problem on install.
In total, I installed like 6 different OSs 2 times each on the machine. No dice. Good thing I made that recovery CD before I wiped the drive. Also, the sony recovery disk reformats your whole HDD. It will remake the factory partitions and all. So I would have been mad to have gotten a working and configured install of linux/unix just for windows to chomp it up when I attempted to make a dual boot system. Grahh!
I consider returning the sony and buying an IBM I know will run Slack just fine, but I'm stubborn. This computer is too pretty. It's like the girl who is beautiful and nice and smart but isn't interested in the same things you are into no matter how much to try to coax her. I won't give her up just for that.
So I install Virtual PC and make a virtual slack drive and use a slax bootdisk as an iso as a secondary and use Qemu to emulate mandrake 10. I am setting up the methods to get data on and off of those virtual drives now. I also installed Cygwin and loaded it with all of my linux utils for development and whatnot and even installed KDE3.4 http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/installation.php so X-server runs over windows...Score! I also install Unxutils so I have a unix shell that can run over Dos and cmd. hehehe.
Take that, Microsoft, by your own devices I have turned your own operating system to linux(ish)! Mwahahaha. It now compiles and runs almost anything I ever need and I can run it in KDE...hehe. I have Won! Back to development now that I am done with 8 days of configuration to get this computer to do exactly what I need it to!
*sigh* I feel like such a @#$%ing geek right now.