Re: I wish to advocate linux
Thanks for replying, Nate.
On 2013/2/27 4:18 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2013 27 Feb 14:53 -0600, Mark Filipak wrote:
The only result of my attempted installations has been cryptic error
messages and non-bootable disks.
That sounds more like a disk writing failure. I've gotten a few
coasters in my years that didn't do things quite right.
Oh, sorry. I'll be more explicit. The boot CDs were fine. The cryptic error messages I got were from the Linux bootstrap. No matter what I did, it seemed like there was always some missing dependency that would cause the boot to fail. I even tried installing everything from all the installation CDs. When that didn't work, I gave up on Linux. That happened many times with many differing PCs. Perhaps I was just unlucky. Folks in the Linux groups couldn't understand why I didn't know what the error messages were saying. To them it was obvious. To me it was mysterious. It was like we were speaking different languages.
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Did you get your FreeBSD installation going? It looks lke there was a
lot of enthusiastic help that should have gotten you going. The thread
seems to end on 19 April 2002 at 4:58 PM CDT without another reply from
you. Perhaps the archive is truncated but I did not see any untoward
attitude displayed by the folks on the freebsd-questions list.
You've done some research! That was a long time ago. I think I tried BSD because I had so much trouble with Linux. Either I was not successful with it, or I was, but couldn't find browsers, newsreaders, or mail clients that would run under BSD - not sure.
I've looked for a way to dump Windows for Internetworking for a long time. I don't trust Microsoft. I was there at the creation. I was a computer architect at Intel during 80386 core development in the early-80s. Microsoft destroyed the CPU privilege/protection model when it created Direct-X. It made rootkits possible - in fact, the name "rootkit" comes from Microsoft! For years I have thought that use of Windows creates a national security risk. Okay, enough of that. I'm sure you can tell that I'm pretty passionate in my hate for Microsoft.
I'm trying to make a bootable Debian live USB. My ISO-to-USB writer apparently can only make bootable *Windows* images. I tried using dd from here:
http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.6beta3.zip
but it won't run for me without an error message.
Here is another idea for you to get some experience. Try doing an
installation in Virtual Box. You can try it as many times as you want.
Just remove the virtual machine from the Virtual Box GUI, saying yes to
remove all files and then start over taking another crack at things.
Actually, I tried VirtualBox but it was missing a soft-router that would enable me to put the guest-OS behind the host's firewall and the VB developers didn't want to write a soft-router even though I found open-source code that could be adapted. I switched to VMware Player and never looked back. I may decide to run Debian in a VM sometime, but for now I'd rather boot Debian from USB.
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