I am not a complete Linux newbie. My desktop dual boots XP and Fedora Core but it truth I haven't booted into Fedora (at least not on purpose) in ages. I had too much trouble getting the applications that I wanted to work properly so I gave up on it. Yes, yes I know it's bleeding edge. Maybe I'll go back to Fedora or some other distro once I have my laptop the way I want it. So anyway, I knew that I didn't want Fedora and I had in my possession Freespire, DSL, and old Knoppix discs. I was able to boot all of them as live cds although none of them recognized my wireless card (more on that fun in a later chapter). I decided to go with Freespire.
- Repeated attempts at Freespire installation failed. Research gave no solutions so I gave up on Freespire
- How about Gentoo Linux? Downloaded, burned iso, installation failed. . . Next!
- Did some more research on distros and decided to try Topologlinux. Downloaded and burned iso. Waded through the long and detailed installation instructions. Finally after several tries got - how shall I describe this - during it's attempt at booting, the screen was covered with several horizonatal and vertical lines behind which illegible text scrolled quickly by. No login screen ever materialized. Alright, I've wasted several days of my life on Topologilinux, time to move on.
- Hey, I wonder if one can install Knoppix to the hard drive. Why yes, one can!
- Downloaded and burned latest stable version (5.1), installation hangs, bad sector on the cd, rinse and repeat. Yay! Easy peasy installation.
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