Linux - More Experiments

Was given a Knoppix-4.0 dvd to play with, that was awesome! Thought I'd try a couple of more up to date distros.

My PC had a primary master, secondary master drive with a slaved CDROM. Took the secondary master and made it as a slave to the primary, now there's 2x80 GByte hdd drives there, and put a 20 GByte hdd in as the secondary master.

Had to use a recovery disk (RIP) to fix lilo and the /etc/fstab file in the working distro which is still Mandrake-10.1.

Then started playing with two distros that came off the english "Linux Format" magazine. One was Debian sarge and the other was Fedora Core 4. Interestingly enough, even though both seemed to have different installers, both formated the hdd as an extened partition with an 18 GByte partition and a nearly 1 GByte swap.

The Debian distro gave me a bit of heartburn trying to get X to work, it was a bit like playing with Red Hat six or seven years ago! Anyway, after sorting that out it turned out to be fine. FC4 went on without any hassles and both distros used Gnome. After an exhaustive 30 second analyses of both distros, all I can say is I like both, but have a bit of a learning curve to crawl up before selecting *the right one* for me.