random gripes from the chalkface
i have no intention of maintaining a regular series of blogs. this is purely an excuse to rant, vent off, or otherwise comment on various things that irk me. an 'grumpy old man' blog, if you like...
Tuesday 10 March 2009, 8:28 AM
Ubuntu 8.10 up & running!
After a 4/5 week wait for parts, a HDD caddy, interposer & mounting screws kit finally arrived yesterday...
The interposer fits nicely, and the mounting screws hold the drive in its caddy, but... the caddy is for HDD bay 1, whereas I asked for a caddy to fit bay 2!!! & the screws that hold the drive in its caddy are NOT the same screws that fix the caddy into the bay!!!
Still, a bit of jiggery-pokery (thats a technical term...) & I got the HDD installed.
Onto the fun part...
Initially, I had a few problems installing Ubuntu - for some reason neither of my drives were recognised (probably the ill-fitting caddy...)
but after leaving it to go have a cup of tea, I poked the drives, tried again, and about 25 minutes later found myself in my new OS!!
about 250 updates later, plus upgrading the graphics card driver, its working quite nicely!
Not too keen on the way that web pages are presented just now, but there's plenty to do before I can say that everything is finished.
Sadly, I won't be able to ditch Windows entirely - some programmes just will not run under Linux just yet, and I rely on Windows at work (& have to prepare a lot of material at home) but this is definitely a big step now!!!
Now all I need to do is give those buggers a call about sending the right caddy & screws!!!
The interposer fits nicely, and the mounting screws hold the drive in its caddy, but... the caddy is for HDD bay 1, whereas I asked for a caddy to fit bay 2!!! & the screws that hold the drive in its caddy are NOT the same screws that fix the caddy into the bay!!!
Still, a bit of jiggery-pokery (thats a technical term...) & I got the HDD installed.
Onto the fun part...
Initially, I had a few problems installing Ubuntu - for some reason neither of my drives were recognised (probably the ill-fitting caddy...)
but after leaving it to go have a cup of tea, I poked the drives, tried again, and about 25 minutes later found myself in my new OS!!
about 250 updates later, plus upgrading the graphics card driver, its working quite nicely!
Not too keen on the way that web pages are presented just now, but there's plenty to do before I can say that everything is finished.
Sadly, I won't be able to ditch Windows entirely - some programmes just will not run under Linux just yet, and I rely on Windows at work (& have to prepare a lot of material at home) but this is definitely a big step now!!!
Now all I need to do is give those buggers a call about sending the right caddy & screws!!!
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