Musings of a Babylon Lurker » pc http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:18:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Setting up a “new” system with Linux http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2008/11/08/setting-up-a-new-system-with-linux/ http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2008/11/08/setting-up-a-new-system-with-linux/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:08:53 +0000 lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=143 This week end I am going to re-establish a somewhat faster Linux machine than the one I am writing this post on (1GHz Pentium 3 gets rather sluggish when Flash is running in the browser).

At some stage I installed Arch Linux on that machine with a Sempron processor – it worked fine for a while, then apparently due to the “rolling update” something went wrong, and I lost the graphical setup.

Now, I am no Linux guru, so decided to do it the old fashined “Windows- way” – reinstalling. Oops. with a mixture of parallel and serial ATA the “#&/”/&ยค% thing could not boot. What I plan to do ? install only serial ATA disks, install OS , transfer data from the PATA disks via USB – and that should do it.

I am planning on using Ubuntu.

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