Saturday, November 11th, 2006
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Installing Ubuntu 6.1 (”Edgy Eft”) was smooth. I have 3 NTFS partitions on the harddrive. One of them was deleted to make room for Ubuntu. It’s about 24GB. Made 2 partitions - 2GB for swap, and the rest for /. I know it’d be better to have things like /var and /home in separate partitions, but there can only be up to 4 patitions on one harddrive, so that’s that.
As for the other two NTFS partitions, the installer discovered them and offered to mount them to the linux file system. The default root mount point for them was a little strange to be called “/media”. So I changed them to, well, /win/c, and /win/e. Later on I’m planning on converting E: to FAT32 or FAT32+ext3, so the duo can safely share files. For now, though, the first thing after booting into my new Ubuntu installation was changing /etc/fstab, and replacing the “defaults” in options for those two mount points to “ro”. That makes them read-only.
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
I have decided to gradually migrate my main work environment to Linux, and only keep Windows for gaming and other MS proprietary things. It’s something I have been wanting to do for the past decade, I would give it a try about every two years and see that Linux wasn’t “quite there yet”, and give up. The dedicated server I rent for digiZen (i.e. the one serving you all this babbling of mine right now) has been running Fedora Core for over a year. I’ve been happy both using and maintaining it. On the other hand, none of the Linux distros (including a home-made one starting with me building from the kernel source) had been satisfactory and up to par as a day-to-day desktop environment.
Well, about a couple months ago, the “Genuine Windows” update notification popup finally got on my nerve, to the point of “ok, it’s that time again.” After playing around a Ubuntu installed in VMWare, I got confident enough to take it one step further into the typical dual-boot setup. A couple of nights later, I am happy to report that I’m working in an environment capable of supporting about 90% of my daily tasks. And I’m pretty confident that, with more googling and tweaking, and the great wine as the last resort, I’ll be pushing that number to very close to 100%.
That’s not to say, everything went as smooth as I would have liked it. I’m starting this series to keep some notes on the pitfalls and (usually unpleasant) surprises.
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