Did you feel the earth move Saturday morning? Did you notice a new moon eclipsing the sun? Did toads rain down from the sky without warning?

Well, I finally broke down and decided I should take a stab at linux. I had a dual 300 512MB with 50GB SCSI storage just sittin there and some time to kill...

I did some reading and searching and decided to go with Suse 9.0.

I did the FTP install option and after several hours of frustration (mainly because when you enter the directory pat you have to put pub/suse/i386/9.0 and NOT /pub/suse/i386/9.0 or pub/suse/i386/9.0/ - of course it doesn't tell you this and you have to dig through forums to find out what the fuck is going on - but of course it DOES do the 50MB download of the core files before it errors out. Piece of SHIT! Sorry...

Anyway - I finally got it running from a local mirror and it started installing - all night - got up in the morning expecting to play with it - but no - now it needs patches - about 3 hours worth - yeah, WAAAAAY better than windows (My hairy white ass it is). So patches are done - it's finally time to fire it up - got logged in to the desktop in 640x480 mode. Yes, so much better than windows - So I spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out how to change my resolution and said "Fuck it!" and booted a 98 floppy and fdisked away all the partitions.

So I drop my 2k3 Server disk in there and start booting - and what comes up but GRUB boot loader - hmmm - fdisk/mbr did the trick on that - finally got it going but now Win is telling me it can't install the nt boot loader for some reason.

HOW DO I GET THIS FUCKER OFF MY COMPUTER!?!@?!#@?#!!!!

For some reason it won't load the nt boot loader - it's driving me nuts. I have 2 raids installed don this box a 2GB mirror for os and a 50GB Raid5. I really don't want to break the raids, low level the drives and then rebuild the raids - what do I have to do to get linux to let go of the damn boot record?

hell if i know, i had mandrake linux and when i formatted it went away, i dont know about suse though.

I've formatted - mbr'd and fdisked my brains out...I had 2k3 on this server just before I installed SUSE and it worked fine - so I'm pretty confident it's something Suse did to my boot record.

I haven't tried formatting in NTFS - just FAT32 because I can't get to the stage in NT loading to have the option of configuring the drives (that's where it fails).

I guess I should whip up a ghost or drive manager cd and get it squared away - I'm just really really unhappy with my Linux experience this far. I am not impressed at all.

Just wipe the drive.

i dont know what to tell ya, i have no idea what to do. Maybe ask someone on the maximum pc forums, i always get alot of good help there. ( www.maximumpc.com ) just go to the reader forums section.

I'm assuming that the drive currently has nothing on it that you want? If that's the case, you can boot up on a linux disc, and guarantee that everything is gone by:

1) finding out what linux calls your drive (hda, sda, something like that)

2) at a root prompt (#), type this, and replace hda with your actual drive name:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=1

This will overwrite the first meg of the drive with zeros and give you a completely clean slate.

eh, chainsaw isnt in this forum anymore, he requested to leave.

Posted by Kbasa eh, chainsaw isnt in this forum anymore, he requested to leave.

why? might i have permission to know.

aaa he was kinda pissed at you and NYUE for some reason.

who wasnt pissed at NYUE

yeah what ever happend to him, banned? Didnt he sends somehting threatening email to av?

Yes he is banned and yes he did. He was an asshat, which is what he was also talking through half the time.

And full of shit. He said he had all these kick ass computers and servers but didn't know shit about them.

maybe since NYUE is gone Chainsaw will come back? I'm not that bad

yeah, ill pm him one of these days.

I'm thinking about getting linux and was wondering if anyone had any tips or links for downloads etc. any help would be greatly appreciated.....

i would stick to windows, linux is quite a bit different, and almost less functional than windows...but if you want linux i would suggest mandrake linux 10.0, thats what i had and it was decent.

Posted by Kbasa i would stick to windows, linux is quite a bit different, and almost less functional than windows...but if you want linux i would suggest mandrake linux 10.0, thats what i had and it was decent.

well, I have an extra computer lying around so i just figured i'd mess with it.

yeah get mandrake, its real easy to use. just search for it

Mandrake is nice.