Kubuntu from a chroot

I finally upgraded chirp to Kubuntu Edgy
I put it on my 5 gig partition instead of my 11 gig one... oops!
I did it from a chroot.. that is I didn't use a CD image.

Basically, if you've installed Gentoo you know what to do, just do it with a debootstrap instead of unpacking the stage..whatever tarball.

Don't forget to install your kernel! and lots of other programs you may need.

DWL-630 support HAS BEEN DROPPED?!! There is no linux-restricted-modules available for the kernel I was using. I'm sure the firmware is in there somewhere...

knetworkmanager just plain doesn't work

for some reason / doesn't show up in df or cat /etc/mtab I chose reiserfs... that may have something to do with it.. (my fstab was empty!!!! and it still booted!?!!)

Editing the grub.lst was easy as pie, I've done it a couple of times, just copy one of the list in dapper to have a 2.6.17 kernel load from the edgy drive.

--Ok, I post draft quality content... I'll probably never clean this up... Just know that it's possible to install ubuntu from another distro without using a cd, from the network, (or another repository)

Windows VISTA SUX

Synopsis, I don't plan to buy windows vista. It SUX. I might reconsider when a killer directX10 game comes out that I actually have time to play will I consider it again... Oh, I have to have enough money to buy it too...

I don't want to support it either.

Vista is ugly,
Vista is a resource hog,
Vista has a few good wizards and other stuff like that.
To install vista, you have to install it twice! (when scrapping an old PC, using upgrade version)
Installing vista takes tons of time. (it does a silly performance review on the PC without an option to skip!)
Vista's start menu is horrible.
Vista's search feature is no big deal.
Vista's popups are just plain annoying
Depending on people to click popups is not security.

Windows XP nightmare

Ok, I won't let windows update run on it's own, because it chews up my data like a teething puppy...

I needed to boot into Windows on my desktop to get a couple screen shots of outlook.

I let windows update run.. always a good idea, it's been a while since I've been into windows and I had changed all of the peripherals on my computer again since last time...

* Windows Genuine Advantage update -- -- didn't install, it didn't say what the update was for and I don't want it anyway
* UPDATE for windows media 11-- just DRM crap so I didn't install it
* One time malware check -- Ok
*root certificate updates -- Ok

Next time my computer booted with a :
windowsdir.. /system32/ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt or missing

I believe that I could have a virus... or a hard drive that's going bad.

I cracked my administrator password with ophcrack so that I could to use my aunt's windows xp home edition disk to restore my XP..

(Yes, I do have a legitimate copy of windowsXP through MSDN) It's just been since when windows XP was just a prerelease that I last used my administrator password and media Ok.. well I did have to grab it a few times methinks, but it's been years)

I think I'm going to copy everything to my external harddrive before I do anything more to the old bastard... I think my hard drive might be going tits up... and This disk has my MBR on it for all of the rest of the operating systems... GRRRR...




INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 32768. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.

Sillyness

Ok, I can't be publishing rants out there when there is enough wrong with me that I should fix. I've always known this, but it's really hard to follow.

I took a look at my Ubuntu post, and realized that I didn't do what I intended. I like to be critical, to me, that is a form of showing care. Critical as a word doesn't fit quite in with being loving.. Something a bit softer and more supporting sounds better.

When I write as I'm doing something, I hope to record something useful about what I'm experiencing. I'll write feelings when I have them, and then they will change throughout the "Lament".

Just because I say something negative about something doesn't mean that I won't accept it, or find it the best thing that I've ever had. So, in conclusion, I want record and present a PROCESS good and bad-- the USEFULL stuff.

I know that lots of people have lots of ideas, and we're looking for a forum to have them be made into reality. I'm going to have to tidy up the formatting(language structure too!) of my blogs to make them more palatable to my friends and enemies.

This blog currently represents the majority of my online presence, and I read like I'm broken.. I've suffered quite a few hits recently, and I need to heal. To health!