Fresh-Out-the-Box!

Migration to Linux- Step 1 May 31, 2005

This weekend was a kind of milestone for me. I finally used up the partition I’d set aside for Linux with a install of Redhat Shrike. The installation was painless- the thing that took me the longest was going through the list of options of what I did and didn’t want installed. I could have just chosen the typical desktop installation and been done with it, but when I’m offered a load of stuff, I want to see what it is, and as it turned out the install had a massive range of options that could be installed, so I went through and grabbed any that seemed relevent (which was quite a lot!).

So it installed without a problem, GRUB is defaulting to Windows, and will also let me choose a regular or dual processor version of the software (as I’ve installed it on my main SMP machine).

Time was running short, and once installed I got a nice flashing cursor and not much else. I tried to fire up one of the installed graphical desktop environments (KME?), but just typing its name didn’t work, which is where I gave up, for now.