last night, I decided to try the full-blown Ubuntu install on the laptop. While it’s big, and takes up a lot of hard drive space, either Gnome or KDE are going to be the only window managers that will make this install user-friendly enough to be used by non-Linux geekasaurz0rz0rz0rz. So, full-blown Ubuntu it is.<\/lj><\/p>\nThe install took FOREVER, but it installed in a stable fashion the first time. It takes a while to boot, but is quick and responsive once it’s booted. So, the installation of the OS is a success!<\/p>\n
However, there are still no wireless drivers. So, I have installed the ndiswrapper pages and obtained the proper windows .inf driver file. I copied it from my desktop onto a floppy, slide the floppy into the Presario, attempt to mount the floppy, and uh… no. It seems that none of the floppies I have will mount, which means that it’s likely a problem between Ubuntu and the floppy drive itself.<\/p>\n
I’ve never had any problems with the floppy drive under Windows, so I’m guessing this is another instance of tweak or get tweaked.<\/p>\n
Once I figure out the floppy problem and get the wireless card working under ndiswrapper, only the following tasks remain:<\/p>\n
Getting the ancient sound card recognized and functional.
\nInstalling codecs for “non-free” things like mp3 and streaming video.<\/p>\n
I think this is as far as I’ve ever gotten in a Linux install without flipping out and going back to Windows. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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