March of the Distros
Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 6:16 amWell it is a long story but I slapped together a computer for a friend and she said to install a linux distro on it. Well her fav distro is Arch one that I have had a problem or two with as the years have gone by but okay one more time for her.
I downloaded the newest iso for the core and burnt it to a cd. Here goes nothing! Needless to say I screwed up the install the first time, yes it had to be me, however I repeated the process and poof I was sitting in a command line prompt now here is where the story really begins.
I am old school who ever reads the manual? That is so noob school and only noobs read that for goodness sake. The next step involved installing x-org hey not a problem pacman (the arch package manager, and one that is really as good as apt if you pay attention to a couple of basic things) could handle that for me. Well I had it and it was installed, doh here is that pesky read the manual about to jump up and hit me between the eyes. Well me the linux dooder then downloaded KDE as the window manager and tried to start it, yikes a crash this sucks what is wrong with this stupid distro? Well folks it was not the distro it was this bonehead I only forgot one little basic thing HWD a little program that finds your hardware and then lets you configure x-org. Well needless to say that worked and then it was a case of getting everything edited and configured, and that my friends will be posted later as I get my butt out of lazy mode and into reading mode. Later folks and maybe if I do this right some screenshots
Baldy
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