Failing to be able to do a single question on my maths test, was a demoralized state which span the entire weekend and carried over into the new week. So much for being confident with my maths preparation.
Computers being one of the reasons for my weekend gloom, i decided to dispose a few computer parts:
2x P4 CPUs
1x P4 Mother board
3x CD Drives
3x Hard disk
I tried Ubuntu 7.10, Puppy Linux, and tried installing Suse Linux and FreeBSD.
Novell’s OpenSuse is quite polish to be a business or home desktop, and it can be one of top linux recommendations.
I found a few quires though.
Installation is simple, nice, user friendly, yet I feel some important bits is missing.
For one, the installer is able to make decisions on what partitioning options to use, yet my XP NTFS partition refused to be resize (or the installation). The partition manager didn’t allow me combined fat partitions too. In order not to corrupt the file system, I install on a portable usb hard drive.
However, where was no option where to place grub and they placed it into the mbr of the internal hdd. So I end up having to boot into suse, install the bootloader on the external hdd, then use MbrFix to repair the MBR on the internal hdd. Anyway it turns out my external hdd didnt boot suse and I’m left stranded to windows xp media edition. Which is good, because my projects are there and I won’t get distracted and have my time divided among the partitions and operating systems.
So much for ignoring an true advice not to try linux until the end of projects and exams, but I’m learning the lessons now- no personal projects till the weekends.
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