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My OS News

So its been a while, but I have some updates on my OS escapades.

First, I bought a new computer (well, my wife bought it for me), its an HP a6750y, Quad-Core AMD CPU, 8g of RAM, an onboard ATI HD3200 video card (which I replaced with an old ATI X1300 Pro from my old computer), and a 750g hard-drive. It came pre-installed with Vista 64-bit Home Edition, which isnt exactly my cup of tea, but honestly I just dont have the energy to try and roll it back to XP.

Anyways, I installed Kubuntu 8.10 as a dual-boot, along with the new Windows 7 Beta. I’m loving Kubuntu, and if I can find a way to get WoW and a few other games working I’m saying goodbye to Windows. However, there has been a slight hitch. I can’t seem to get the ATI/AMD proprietary drivers to activate through the Hardware Drivers program. For some reason it just greys out the listing for the driver and does nothing else. Oh well, the fight continues. Once I get the graphics working I’ll try to get the games up and running.

Until then, I’m having fun with Kubuntu.

February 24, 2009 | Filed Under computers, glitch, hardware, kubuntu, linux

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Using ‘alien’ to convert rpm packages to other formats

Carthik over at Ubuntu Blog made a nice post detailing how to convert rpm files to deb packages as well as other distro formats.

Installing using an RPM file

December 5, 2008 | Filed Under computers, linux, software, tips & tricks, ubuntu, utilities

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The dead shall rise…

w00t! I got my 120gb Seagate working again, so I think I’m gonna use my project box as file storage for a while. That is all.

I am currently listening to: MetallicA - Disposable Heros

February 12, 2008 | Filed Under computers, hardware

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Partition Setup - Chapters 2.2 to 2.4

Well, I got the old box up and running, after finding out that one of my three hard drive’s went to shit (unfortunately the 120gb one, I’m gonna see if I can’t get it up and running). I booted it up and started the LFS setup.

Using the guidelines from nixCraft - The importance of Linux Partitions and Linux Partitioning mini-FAQ I chose to setup my partition table on my /dev/hda (60gb) like so:

hda2 / - Root partition - 1gb
hda3 /home - Users home directory - 24gb
hda5 /var - Stores files which keep changing size, e.g. log files - 10gb
hda6 /usr - Linux/BSD binary programs are installed here - 10gb
hda7 /usr/local - Tarballs, and locally built software. - 10gb
hda8 /tmp - Temporary files partition - 3gb

Although I’ve added a few partitions at the recommendations of various other sites:

hda1 /boot - 128mb
hda9 /swap - 2gb

I am leaving /dev/hdb (40gb) empty for now until I can figure out something for it, maybe just a sandbox storage, any suggestions are welcome. Using cfdisk, it was a breeze, simple and easy.

I am currently listening to: Static-X - Loser

February 9, 2008 | Filed Under computers, linux, projects

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System Specs

Here are the system specs for the PC I will be using to create the system:

I will be using the LiveCD from the LFS site to install the OS. The LiveCD contains all the packages to choose form for installing your own Linux distribution, as well as providing an environment to compile and build the system.

February 7, 2008 | Filed Under computers, projects

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