dex Otaku Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 Due to a hardware failure I will likely not be around for several days.I hastily reassembled my K6-2/350 and .. well, I knew there was a reason I kept that old knoppix disc.Trying to install it in a few minutes [booted off cd right now]can't wait for the hundreds of emails I'll have waiting for me in a few days.yay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 I feel for you. GL bud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 Good luck..did you isolate what the problem is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted February 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 /Failing video card fan = overheat followed by my coming home to find puter not working [now thinking the video card is dead actually] .. followed by my shutting the puter off, turning back on, PSU blowing fuse.I'll be around now. After struggling with this ancient Debian install I'm finally sort of running, I can at least use mozilla [firebird won't even install, yay] .. my doG, this OS is almost completely unusable. I can't remember how to do most things from the shell, and the system defaults to KDE, which I'm just trying to not screw with .. but it's next to impossible to do anything. My father's bringing over a notebook with CD writer for me to download a newer version of .. something .. with .. I'm refusing to bother with Windows on this old machine. Problem is my having forgotten 95% of linux/unix stuff, having not used it heavily since, oh, 1997. Things have changed a lot since then of course, but from what I'm looking at right now [knoppix based on debian 2.something] they haven't improved - they've gotten way, way worse. It took an hour just to add a dvorak right-hand keyboard layout to this bloody thing.If anyone can recommend a better version of linux, please do. This is on an ancient machine: K6/2-350, 160MB RAM, 6.4GB hdd, ATI mach64-based PCI video, D-Link DFE530TX NIC [i think, it's some version of dlink in the 528-530 range] .. This is utterly painful, but I can at least get to the bloody web.BTW, all images linked to my server are naturally down as a consequence of this. Will be noting that on the most recent post with such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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