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Thank fucking god, no more Ubuntu
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---What textfiles did you have to edit
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I can't remember exactly but I had to edit the following:
fstab to get it automount my NTFS and FAT32 partitions.
X86Config to set up the graphics properly.
grub.conf to set it up to boot Windows by default and to change the time out and the OS name from DOS to Windows XP.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---and what would you recommend instead?
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Shit, I've just realised that in all the distros I've used I had to edit one or all of the above. Is there a distro you can use where you don't?
Some distros set up this stuff during the instalation and often have nice and pretty GUIs to do this but once you've installed it they seem to disappear so you have to edit the text files. I don't know I might not have had to edit them at all I just did it the way I was told to in the manual so please correct me if I'm wrong.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Shit, I've just realised that in all the distros I've used I had to edit one or all of the above. Is there a distro you can use where you don't?
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There are tools for setting up stuff like that from a GUI.
SuSE's Yast might be able to configure some or all of that stuff, I dunno. It's probably your best bet.
Lead Head:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez --- can't remember exactly but I had to edit the following:
fstab to get it automount my NTFS and FAT32 partitions.
X86Config to set up the graphics properly.
grub.conf to set it up to boot Windows by default and to change the time out and the OS name from DOS to Windows XP.
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SuSE's yast can do all of that. I had SuSE 9.1 but it got screwed up when i upgraded my hardware, and i couldnt find my disc, I am gonna burn some new discs and re-install it.
Aloone_Jonez:
I might give it a go then, I'm not bother about editing config files I wasn't complaining I was just saying it can put some newbs off. Yess I suppost I'm still a bit of a newb but I know the basics and I'm clever wnough to RTFM and sort out most problems for myself. Come to think of it it'd be a chalange to set up Linux and get it working how I want it to without using the keyboard apart from entering text infomation, i.e type my name and info but no cammands or configuration file editing. I wonder if there's a dirstro out there that can do it and from what you're saying SuSE might be the one.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---it'd be a chalange to set up Linux and get it working how I want it to without using the keyboard apart from entering text infomation, i.e type my name and info but no cammands or configuration file editing.
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Least you get sane defaults.
I spend far less time getting a GNU/Linux system up and running than a Windows system. FAR.
Probably everyone who's confertable with both operating systems would say the same.
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