Yup. Walmart had some nice Kingston 2gb sticks. I took the Dell certified memory out of the Dimension 2350 and placed them in the Dimension 3000 I am using now. I haven't had any trouble with this computer. I had just bought some value memory at our local computer shop and first tried it on this computer. I got burned out on running the Lenny so tried Windows XP. NTFS was a pain so thought I would play around in DOS. Loaded a real cool MSDOS701 from Vetusware.com and as long as I didn't try to load Windows 3.1 with it is was okay. So I loaded DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 loaded okay. I had the DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 on floppies. I am really impressed with Dr.Dos 7.1. I found this program that makes a Windows 3.1 that looks like Windows XP from Caldera.

Hanging in there. I owe, I owe. So its off to work I go.

Working for my friend, Stu, tonight so he can get his truck fixed. I will work his Thursday night and he will work my Sunday night. They are hiring new people and it is great except that it is screwing up everybody's time off. Second shift is timing the pullups and briefs on the back to make sure we are changing them. I thought it was dirty pool but am seeing where they are coming from. Where we work the briefs are good for fours hours and even if they are dry they have to be changed. Pullups are good for twenty four hours if they are dry. Eight days in a row without a night off. Would take some time off if I could afford it.

Had a lot of rain but that was all.

I think you might have something there.

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/i386/iso-cd/

I downloaded that first one at the top. When I ran the integrity test it said it was bad. So I burn the six one from the bottom. It loaded fine until Lenny halted at install the software. Ran the integrity test. It said it was good. Neither grub nor lilo would install. What a pain waiting on those 818 files to finally download from debian.org with ftp. Then tried it with http. Same problem. That gets to me what Atlantis posts next. The Imomega 32 speed just wizzed away without stopping when I ran the three 5.0.1. updates. The smallest download would give you the option to install the addition three updates but when using just one of my cdroms but still it would just give the same message of getting stuck at setting up software. So then I thought I would be smart and dual boot with two cdroms with Ubuntu 7.10 and the kde version of Lenny. Then I got the busybox. Yeah, I got all these burned disks. I really gave Nero rom a workout.

Ran check cd rom on both the small disk of Lenny and the 648 mb version. It said that they were both bad. No wonder. Back to the Debian site. Going for the Debian 4 instead though this time.

Spoke to soon. Lenny is hung up on Select and Install software. Grub or Lilo not istalling. I have pulled out the crossover cable. It didn't make a difference. Still stuck.

I guess the easiest way to say this is that I have ethernet between the computers and separate Internet for each of the computers. It is good that there is limited connectivity as ethernet between them. It is 100 mb either way. The Internet is 100 mb on both. XP basically doesn't need Lenny and the reverse could be said. I don't need wine on Lenny. I went through that with Ubuntu 7.10. I don't want to go through that, again. It looks like I am going to get past Select and Install software on Lenny. So far so good.

I am back at Select and Install software. I had to go back and get rid of NTFS on one drive. I had to select one nic card as primary - the Tornado. That way the new computer I am setting up works alone as a stand alone computer. Lenny recognizes the other nic cards but it wanted a primary. I had to stay with the desktop environment. Want to keep it simple. Had to remember my KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. With two nic cards on the XP the one on the motherboard has limited connectivity. This is good. The linksys is connecting okay for the XP to act as a stand alone computer. The linksys on Lenny is working as the crossover with the motherboard ethernet. The motherboard ethernet on the XP is basically doing nothing. Well, I really can't say that because I have bridging set up with the windows firewall. Needless to say I am not impressed with the Dell ethernet on both computers. Curious if bridging is going on with Lenny now or if it even has a firewall. Maybe the limited connectivity is like some kind of failsafe of the firewall. That would make sense. Lenny is aware of the crossover I can tell because of the little drag on the XP.

Lenny is now downloading from the Internet on the other computer. When running the full version it asked me if I had any more disks. I put in the small version. I also put in the nic card that xp had connected to the Internet - the 3Com Tornado. The four port DSL router modem is now working on two computers. It is downloading through the crossover on one nic and downloading through another nic straight through as normal. Success as it is put in the desktop. Strange to me but it is doing it.

The whole hard drive size doesn't show up on the Samsung. I tried the memfest kernel and thought it was cool. Really didn't understand it except it showed I had some problems that I didn't understand. I want this computer to stay XP and the other computer to stay Debian. I have a router. It is a Bay Networks with twelve ports. When I tried the only on disk connected the ISO halted on setting up the software. Wouldn't let the usual desktop one would want if one was as Linux ignorant as I am. All the experience I really had with Linux was the class I took in college that introduced Linux as Dos 2. I think downloading another ISO makes sense. I burned the one I had with Nero Rom.

Roy

I am sure tech school will keep you busy enough. Aced it, huh? Hey, that is awesome.

Oh, the problem right now after I got to the bottom of the missing or invisible hard drive in bios - the Samsung one; I have two hard drives on the one that tried to set up with "Lenny". I couldn't setup XP or Lenny. Right now I am writing zeros to both drives; The Samsung 40 gb and the Maxtor 40 gb. The crossover cable worked fine. The DHCP couldn't connect with any of the network interface cards. It was an ISO version that burned fine but it wants to connect to the Internet because it only has the basic operating system devoid of the desktop. I burned the small version and the 648 mb version. The grub loader worked in the small version. Got more in the 648 mb but I think I might still have come with some hard drive problems. Its a Dell Dimension 2350 I am putting Lenny on eventually and I want to cross it over with my Dimension 3000. I was impressed with Lenny - loaded all my motherboard drivers not like XP which you have to have the drivers on disks. I like the stability of Debian. The site even said the smaller version might be a better option. I am not giving up on it just have some hardware issues to get working right. either way if I connect via one computer to another or through the multiple BEC DSL box I will be able to get the updates.

I like linksys. I have linksys network cards in both machine plus the network card on the motherboards of both machine. Debian 5 and XP both identified easily the linksys cards. I looked at the data on both and it makes sense since they both from cisco. But when I tried with the two 3com cards I had trouble. But the 3com cards were old. I like the plu and play combatibility of the linksys cards. I was having trouble when I had the cable select option on the Samsung hard drive without the coupler pin identifying it as slave with the Maxtor hard drive with the pin in it identified as master. Since I put the pin in it the bios quit making it invisible. I just had a friend make me a crossover cable between the tow computers. But my problem with the full 648 megabyte is that it won't load the lilo or grub installer. The other download I had with the debian loaded the grub loader but no graphical user interface. Now I just had the error message of 15 where the grub isn't loading. Atleast I got past the hard drive issue and I still have internet capabilitity on this XP setup.

Well, this ought to be fun. I have XP on one machine and going to try to set up home networking with Lenny.

Suffer the little children to come unto me for such is the kingdom of heaven.

I think it would be nice to have ubuntu at the windows update site.
Windows is updating its operating system. continue? Y ... Press enter.

Try to be lovable.

Rehab helped me to get faith in myself to go to college. It has been over twenty-five years since I went in that cold February day. I was so stoned and drunk I didn't know which way was up. Two large men I have to thank for keeping from trying to commit suicide by way of freezing in the snow. It was a practicising drunk who twelve stepped me then. He said that it worked for him for a little while. I got the name Rainbow because I had a handfull of pills I had taken and they were so pretty. Didn't really know what the pills were. All they said to me was that they could get me high. I am glad that you are trying to make something out of yourself. It has been a great way of life for me and feel like my life really started in detox. Most everything before that seemed like a blackout. Hope it all works out for you.

I am getting a crossover cable for my two computers. I had a bad nic card and forgot that you can't use a patch cable for a crossover cable. Been at it for a while now. Yeah, computers can be aggravating when they don't work right. I hope you get rid of the virus.