{"id":219,"date":"2004-05-21T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/wordpress\/?p=219"},"modified":"2022-05-11T03:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:48:43","slug":"simon-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 – False Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

My CDs arrived on cue from fastdiscs and the install was quite easy – you popped the first CD into the drive and booted the PC. Everything else happened automatically. One immediate problem that I encountered was that Linux appeared to only recognise half of my hard disk. There was a 4GB drive in there but only 2GB appeared as usable. This created a problem because all the options that I wanted to load on took up more than 2GB. Sigh. I unticked a load of options and allowed the, now sadly reduced, installation to continue. Some of the questions it asked me were odd and, frankly, scary. I was asked for an Administrator password but not allowed to choose the username (more on this later). how many days to treat demodex mange in dog with ivermectin 1.87 paste<\/a> I was asked to choose a security level out of: Normal, High, Higher, Ultra-secure. I was asked whether I’d prefer a GNOME or a KDE. remedio ivermectina 6 mg<\/a> There was plenty more in this vein but eventually, still as part of the installation, I was asked to configure the various devices on my compuuter. I took this at face value and did my best to comply. The DSL Modem immediately failed but I wasn’t worried because most of the other stuff did as well. Several reinstalls of the operating system later, I discovered that the worst thing you can do is to try to set up your machine at this point. I shall save the wonders of the Mandrake Linux GUI for another day. Suffice to say that I managed to log into the machine and get most of the devices working. lactic acidosis ivermectin<\/a> Ultimately though I neeed greater capacity so that I could add the necessary components loaded. Fortuitously I had received an email earlier in the day from a wholesale company selling cheap hard disks. I rang them and persuaded them to sell one to me as an individual rather than a company. I paid \u00a324 for a 30GB disk which I thought was pretty good. As I knew that I would have to reinstall Linux once the new hard disk arrived, I didn’t get to tackle any of the myriad problems confronting me and contented myself looking at the pretty new interface. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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