Anyways, I am going traveling and figured it'd be the perfect computer to bring overseas in case it gets jacked or breaks, no real loss.  I love crunchbang, but my buddy who is traveling with me needs windows 7.  so i did some research and found I could install windows 7 with xp drivers and whatnot and so i did.  I made sure to use gparted to resize the original 2 partition (100gigs SDA1 plus a small swap partition). I formatted the newly created unallocated partition fat32 so the windows installer could see it, and reformatted the partition in windows installer, and continued with installation.  Mind you I'd been running a single OS configuration for over a month (crunchbang) and I know from past experience with old ubuntu that its easy to install win 7 first and Linux after so Grub can account for both OS's.  Anyways, I figured i could rewrite grub after all was done.   Only, a lot has changed it seems.  I really need to brush up on my terminal usage, its been to long.

So now I can boot to windows 7 and i even edited the windows 7 bootmanager with easybcd to open the linux partition in the boot menu, but when i select it it just hangs with the cursor flashing...

I decided i'd try reinstalling grub on the SDA1 partition with my crunchbang on it.  So i booted a live crunchbang, and opened up terminal and did this:

sudo fdisk -l

I find my linux partiton is SDA1

so then I type:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

That mounts my hd linux partiton, everything so far is good!

now it is time to reinstall grub on SDA1, right?

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

this spits back something saying" grub-install not found" or doesnt exist...

Am I missing something here? i dont mind if grub becomes my boot manager, infact i'd prefer that... just i cant understand why i cant reinstall grub with a command, am I doing something wrong?

A couple of weeks ago -- I think after an update -- the internal wireless card in this ThinkPad T30 stopped working the way it had until that point and gave me several choices of networks from which to choose, without connecting to any of them. The workaround was, of course, to use a PC-MCIA card, which I'm using now.

But now it's a.) kind of bugging me to have this thing sticking out of the side of the ThinkPad, and b.) I have another old laptop with no internal wireless card (a MicroPC) that needs the PC-MCIA card.

[It should be noted that I have a lot of older hardware because, well, I'm poor, but that's not really related to the problem.]

Here's what the drop-down menu looks like (with the PC-MCIA card in operation, and connected to the Linksys router):

I'd prefer not to go the ndiswrapper route, but I can if I have to. Any suggestions as to why this list is so, um, long?

Anyhow, I have been playing around with updating the Statler images, again. As you might be aware, the 3+ kernel is now available via backports and I updated the #! Mozilla mirror this morning so Iceweasel is now at version 10. Now seems like as good a time as any to update the builds.

The only changes I plan to make are:

• Revert to GDM -- whilst SLiM has been working well for me, I understand that it has caused a fair amount of trouble for others. The sensible option is to switch back. The SLiM packages will remain in the repository and are pretty easy to install, if required.

• Basic window tiling shortcuts added to Openbox's rc.xml.

• 'firmware-realtek' package installed by default.

Also, I am thinking about creating backported and non-backported images. The backported images will have backports turned on by default (as with the current image) and the non-backported images will stick to the main Squeeze repos, with the exception of Iceweasel and Geany, which will track the backports repositories.

By doing ^, I am hoping that some people will not feel the need to use the old 20110207 images.

Does anyone have any opinions/suggestions about this?

:D ps i gotz cupcakes lol
..SiNiSTeR

crunchbang was ..., well, it was kind of sickening how easy it was.  how wifi just worked.  how sound was no problem (after turning up the volume levels--via bash! cool!)  how i didn.t feel the need to rework the desktop environment.  and i LOVE the 20 pixels of desktop management sitting innocuously atop the screen.  genius!  super key shortcuts--thanks for not calling them windows key shortcuts.

after about 30 minutes perusing my shiny new distro, i thought to myself, 'wow, this is exactly how i would design my own linux distro if i were clever enough to do so.'

thanks again.

$$$ support forthcoming,

skid.

- I watched 6 ep of Person of Interest but i didn't like it much.
- Terra Nova?? WTF, seriously.
- Boardwalk Empire, still great. Still amazing.
- Hell on Wheels is a good western tv show. But finished after 10 ep. I read some news there'll be a second season. I hope it will.

My top five;
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Rome
3. Lost
4. Game of Thrones
5. Arrested Development

I still didn't find a feverish show like Lost, and a sci-fi like BSG. Btw Sarah Jones, damn she is hot. Alcatraz, i give 6.5/10 for now. :) (5 is for Sarah)

I was using NDISGTK for a bit, and thought that may be the problem. Nope. It's a missing module:

FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found

So yeah, should I compile the latest ndiswrapper source? Or, update the kernel?
(Liquorix and all that jazz. It'd be a good learning experience to compile my own kernel)

We get one more day this February leap year!

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