What keep you away from linux?

p99 · Post by **p99** » 22 Apr 2007, 00:39

bad_brain wrote:hmm...what an output do you get with
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fdisk -l

It just goes to the shell prompt. Not sure why. Other fdisk commands do the same.

I'm just going to install another distro. I'm quite tired of Ubuntu on it. The only reason I had on there was it had drivers for my wifi card.

But I think I have slax around which I have yet to try.

Post by **bad_brain** » 22 Apr 2007, 04:21

weird....fdisk -l should list all drives, I wanted to check if the USB drive is mounted..

well, maybe it's really better to use another distro, to be honest I'm not a fan of Ubuntu anyway.
and this is maybe something that keeps people away from Linux yet: not every distro is working for everbody, so a little test-phase is needed until the best one is found....

p99 · Post by **p99** » 22 Apr 2007, 20:27

Now i'm pissed. Nothing but ubuntu 5.10 will install on the damned thing. I even found a windows 95 disk and that didn't work.

I have slax and I assume i'm being stupid about the partitioning or something. I've installed it before... I'll try sarge debian.

Actually do you happen to know how to install Knoppix std? "install to hardrive" doesn't work

Post by **bad_brain** » 23 Apr 2007, 04:13

to install Knoppix boot the system from CD as usual, then press CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch into textmode, to start the install type:

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knoppix-installer

but I recommend to try Debian first (sarge, not etch)...

p99 · Post by **p99** » 23 Apr 2007, 19:58

I actually retreived my debian sarge 3.1 disk today. I'm going to give it a go.
But I am trying to teach myself c++ and can't find a distro with it installed. And with no internet access to that computer.... I just need to get usb working properly with my psp.

TY for the knoppix tip. I have like 4 knoppix cd's.

RNA · Post by **RNA** » 23 Apr 2007, 20:40

p99 wrote:I actually retreived my debian sarge 3.1 disk today. I'm going to give it a go.
But I am trying to teach myself c++ and can't find a distro with it installed. And with no internet access to that computer.... I just need to get usb working properly with my psp.

TY for the knoppix tip. I have like 4 knoppix cd's.

gcc is the C++ compiler, I dont know any linux dsitro without gcc.

Post by **bad_brain** » 24 Apr 2007, 04:19

well, on Debian it's not installed by default, but all it takes are 2 commands:

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apt-get install gcc
apt-get install libc6-dev

p99 · Post by **p99** » 24 Apr 2007, 22:02

Wow debian with G++ and gcc already installed. Cool.

I was stuck with it anyways. That or ubuntu. Cool now I program for 2 hours a night!!!!

Thanks. I need my "fix"