Didn’t wake up until about midday today*, I think I must have been up late last night. I’ve spent most of the day switching between talking to relatives and trying to install Debian on Frell, my main PC.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get very far with the installation as I’ve been trying to find places to stuff my backup all day. I tar’ed up a load of mp3s and tried to upload them to reubs’ Knoppix box but it ran out of hard disk space. Kept running though, which Windows wouldn’t have done!<\/p>\n
asher_francis<\/a> re-installed Windows XP and has started learning to program VB which is cool. Until he breaks something.<\/p>\n Talking of breaking things, I’ve just spent the past half an hour trying to get tralk to boot back into X. I downloaded mchicago<\/a>‘s java client for DeepDown and tried to run it and suddenly X died on me. At this point I started cursing at mchicago<\/a> which i should apologise for as it’s pretty unlikely the java client actually caused the crash!<\/p>\n He fiddled with tralk for a while for me but to no avail. It was trying to start KDE by default and there was an error in the configuration which I couldn’t pinpoint. I wanted to start fluxbox which works. Then I started trying to get to xdm or gdm so I could select which window manager to use as there didn’t seem to be a script to start fluxbox that should be there. At that point something VERY odd happened – I got xdm and gdm running simultaneously on the same screen overlapping each other and it was NOT pretty. The cursor just didn’t know where to go…<\/p>\n I got back to a shell and killed about a dozen instances of kdeinit manually along with xdm and gdm. Then I ran gdm and logged into fluxbox, phew.<\/p>\n Serves me right for running X on my web server really. But I was booted into Windows on Frell to copy backup files to my mp3player hard disk at the time and needed a Linux box.<\/p>\n I’m going to Laura’s tomorrow after I’ve installed debian. I am determined to actually get there which means I need to get my ass moving and get up at a decent time to start bodging through the installation. Somehow I have to sort out my 6 partitions across 2 hard disks into something more sane!<\/p>\n *I should explain that if it’s around 1 or 2 am and I say “today” what I really mean is “yesterday”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Didn’t wake up until about midday today*, I think I must have been up late last night. I’ve spent most of the day switching between talking to relatives and trying to install Debian on Frell, my main PC. I didn’t get very far with the installation as I’ve been trying to find places to stuff … Continue reading A day of Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}