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Digital ambition

I’m tired of me. Imagine! I’ve never learned from a mistake. Months ago, I had the ambition of installing a different Linux distribution on my laptop other than openSuSE 10.2, but I still didn’t know much about Linux partition system, although I know that the three main partitions consist of / for root, /home for files and /swap for memory allocation in case the computer’s memory is full.

So, last night, I installed Gentoo and the partition part was such a pain. Instead of creating a partition, I deleted all of the partition in my laptop, which means my Windows XP partition will be deleted.

Aaarrrrgggg!!!!!

Side note: This is exactly the same mistake I did before. Now, I have to reinstall XP from fresh and I have to reinstall openSuSE 10.3 from fresh again. It’s a time consuming configuration and……….endless.

I couldn’t run Gentoo after the installation, simply because I had to set up the static ip address, but it didn’t work. I ejected the CD and my laptop didn’t boot, because, although Gentoo partition is already there, there is no loader. And XP was deleted.

I deleted my Gento partition through Gentoo installer and am now reinstalling XP.

What am I learning? Nothing! Pure stupidity…NOT!