Linux Continued

Well...
For the past few days, we have still been farting around in Ubuntu Server Terminal, learning the ropes, and getting a feel for the system. We installed the GUI for Ubuntu, through the terminal. Then we installed GPartED and partitioned our hard drives to tri boot. We installed XP today, and it took along time to finally get that done... Me and Jose kept messing up, and we had to keep trying over and over again to get it installed, but we finally did. The end. Tomorrow we will set up the triple boot, and troubleshoot it.

Linux Days 6-8

I keep forgetting to blog daily, but recently, day 6, we finally couldn't get a working copy of sabayon 4.2 installed. Then we played alot of sauerbraeten off the live disk, because we were frust. Its a stupid game, with a horribly non linear plot. We got a copy of sabayon 5.0 and it installed just fine, but I think that that was because it was after T told us to use a separate hard drive... So we installed sabayon and answered some questions about it. Then we had T and Mayo install Ubuntu Server 9.10 on our computer. Of course, we don't get a GUI, so we have to mess around inside the terminal environment, and learn our way around. The commands and syntax and foundations are stupid. I just want to get the terminal part over with, and install a GUI, so we can move on.

tl;dr Suse is kewl, Sabayon has a fun little shooter game on the live disk, terminal only ubuntu is hard, I hope we get onto GUI soon.

Linux Update

I can't really keep track of the days well, so I don't know what today was in our linux assignment. Plus, I was not there to participate because of a band UIL competition. I plan on asking Eric, or Ale, or Thomas what they did during class, to bring me back up to speed so I can jump right back in.

Linux Days 2-4

We have spent the last few days installing and messing around in SUSE linux. We chose the gnome desktop option, because that was the one we were most familiar with. One main issue we had was that the networking abilities of our computer were limited, but we managed to finally get the drivers and get access to the internet. Unfortunately, we can not figure out how to assign a static IP address, and continue to connect to the internet, so we have resorted to staying on DHCP. Hopefully tomorrow we will install Sabayon, and our homework tonight is to download a version of it. But as for class today, we just looked around, explored, poked, and prodded all the information that we could out of SUSE. We worked on our packets and explored the disk setup of linux. We also experimented with the terminal, and figured out how to give our account root privileges. sudo -l and your root password ftw. Now, I'm off to download a sabayon .iso. So long reader/s

Linux Day 1

We started our linux unit today, on top of making our bartpe disk, we also installed suse on our group computer. At first, we got errors because it couldn't resize our partitions properly, and would stop installing, so we had to restart the installation. On our bartpe disk, we are changing the background, and I made a super awesome background and Jose shopped it. It is a triforce that's made of triforces, which are made out of triforces, which are made out of alt code triangles. Its pro.

DOS and stuff continued

To elaborate, GPartED is the Gnu Partition Editor. What it does is boot from a cd and gives you an environment to partition your hard drives in whatever format you like. Partitioning is basically, making multiple virtual hard drives on one real, physical hard drive. As I said earlier, our group formatted our one hard drive in a 50%/25%/25% set up with the 50% for Windows, and 25% for ubuntu, and 25% for other, that I don't know about yet. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Gparted


To explain what we did in DOS, one must start at the beginning. We learned how to navigate to the root directory, the syntax of which is cd\
When we were there, we made our own folders with the mkdir command.
We then copied many crucial system files to our folders, and used the attrib command to change our viewing properties. We learned the syntax to address all files, and all files of a certain type.
We then used basic FTP to upload and download files from a server. We learned how to stop a shutdown, and to control-c out of dumb batch files.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=MS+Dos+commands

Then we took a DOS test, and I got a 95, because my slashes were wrong :(. But all in all, the last two weeks were cool, because I'm in T's class.

CRAZY FOOL DOS

First of all, we GPartED our hard drives and made three partitions, 50%, 25%, and 25%.
So, we did some basic DOS navigation and manipulation. DOS stands for Disk Operating System. We moved around through directories and drives, copied files from one folder to another. One of our problems was to copy NTLDR off a windows XP cd. We learned how to put and get files off of a FTP, and learned how to stop a computer shutting down with shutdown -a. And we learned to ctrl-C out of stupid batch files. I already knew most of this stuff, but there was some that I didn't, so all in all, I'm glad that we did basic DOS skill building.