(What’s the Story) Morning Glory!

Today I’m so happy and I want to party!

I fixed my laptop last night and it’s working again now. Well, it was the only solution and I liked it. I reinstalled Fedora 7 and deleted all of the partitions in my hard drive. The most wonderful thing was that I learned more about Linux’s partition. I thought by clicking the choice (Delete all partitions and create a new one), the system (Anaconda-Fedora’s installation software) would do the partition by itself, but when I was prompted with partition info, I thought I was screwed. I had to deal with it.

I tried making Linux partitions several times before, but it just never worked. Last night was different. I created two partitions, /root (ext3) partition and swap. /root is important because it serves as an admin to the system. There is no equivalent of it in Windows because Windows doesn’t really support the hierarchical partition system. Root is important because it’s a superuser. Without “root,” we can’t run a Linux box at all. The swap partition is something like the swap-files under Windows. The partition is needed when physical RAM is used up, so it functions like RAM.

In the beginning, I made a space of about 1500 MB for root partition and about 12000 MB for swap, but as the installation continued, I needed a bigger space for root, so I resized it to 4500 MB. After that, everything runs perfectly. Now, I’m typing this entry with Firefox under my Fedora 7 (Moonshine). Yoo hoo!

I know more about Linux partition now, but I’m not an expert in it yet. I need to read more about it. Well, what I’m planning to do today is actually reinstall XP and see what happens. There is still free space in my laptop, and I figured I could install XP.

I like Fedora 7 in certain aspects, but I don’t like it in another. And I want my openSuSE 10.2. back but there are things that make me nervous about triple booting, that is partitioning and mounting the /home directory. XP is not a problem at all with all of this.

I’ll write another entry about the difference between Fedora 7 and openSuSE 10.2.

Stressed out

I’m completely stressed out by a lot of things, but mostly by my computer.

I’ve been trying to compile several programs on my openSuSE 10.2. but they are not working. Skype, for example, just won’t “make” and “make install” although everything works fine when I untar it. When it comes to “./configure,” it just doesn’t want to compile. It says, “No such file or directory.” I don’t really know what happened, but I just figured it out. It actually works, but I’ve been giving the wrong code. After untaring and cd-ing (cd means change directory) to Skype’s directory, I should type “./skype” under the command line, because it’s a binary. It works, but the problem is the sound. I have a microphone, but it won’t capture my voice. What is going on?

I have also been trying to untar several programs, such as Kdenlive. Kdenlive is an open source video editing software. I have been wanting to install it, although I used to have Kino, but I don’t like the latter because it doesn’t support .dv files. Kdenlive apparently supports it, but, considering it is still new, it needs a lot of tools to run it. I have actually untarred and installed it, but when I run it, nothing happens. Considering the tools to support the software are plenty, I stop playing around with it for now.

I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator, a joystick (that can run under my openSuSE 10.2.) and a Happauge WinTV-HVR 950 (TV Card). The last one works fine under XP but I don’t have an antenna, so the card doesn’t capture a lot of channels. Unfortunately, I still don’t know how to make it work under openSuSE. I do have KdeTV but it just doesn’t recognize my tv card. I thought I might install MythTV but am lazy to read the whole instructions.

Today, I was completely stressed out because of school. Until now, I still haven’t received the documents from school and my “trip” to Austria is coming soon. I really need to apply for permanent residence soon, but without the document from the school, it’s impossible.

That is actually the real cause of my stress. And because of that, I screwed up my laptop again. I uninstalled openSuSE and installed Fedora 7. It worked fine but I was disappointed because it wouldn’t recognize my sound blaster, Creative X-Fi (Cxmod). Silly me, or stupid me, I installed another distro, Mandriva, and I deliberately deleted my Windows partition. I didn’t finish installing and I reinstalled Fedora 7, but I want my XP back. When I inserted my XP CD, it just won’t install. I tried installing openSuSE and it didn’t want to install either because my XP partition is messed up. Well, I deleted an unknown partition in Fedora, but when I booted it, I got kernel panic. I really don’t know what to do now. I’m writing this entry using my friend’s laptop, which is a MacBook with Mac OS X (Panther).

I’m still stressed out!