Networking for Complete n00bs

[nolawitch58]

Naturally, the task I thought was going to be most difficult turned out to be the easiest. It took about an hour and forty-five minutes to run all the CAT5 and drill all the holes and terminate it. I thought we were in for a cakewalk after that. WRONG! Sailor's system wouldn't boot into the GNOME GUI without rerunning the configuration four times. The Netgear router decided not to accept the default password. We had to break for a bite to eat on the theory that hunger was simply making us stupid. Darkness began to fall and my helpers left.

I'm going to try some of the solutions suggested for the router on UF if I've still got any energy left after "Iron Chef America" tonight. As much as I love to geek, I have no intention of missing that show.

Comments

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

You guys are having too damn much fun. :P

So when you and Sailor jump the broom, are you keeping your place?

After the broom jumping, we're staying right here.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

He's already moved in with me and I own this condo.

Re: After the broom jumping, we're staying right here.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

You know I'm tempted to say post a pic. I remember you saying you have black walls and carpet. If Nick and I ever own a place you know we are going to do about the same. Since I don't own, so far I've never done that but I have seen some rather cool houses done with dark colours. Though the odd dark colour was kinda ewww.(I forget what one was I saw on some decorating thing but it was weird. I like dark blues, purples, hunter green, reds and blacks)

Please say though once you guys get married you'll post us at least one pic of the handfast. :)

We should have some pretty cool pics to post.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

The theme of the handfasting is Famous Dead People. Everyone who is invited will have instructions to costume as a Famous Dead Person of their choice. I'm going to be Carolyn Jones as Morticia and Sailor is going to be Raul Julia as Gomez. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Re: We should have some pretty cool pics to post.

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Oh - do post pics!! This will look fabulous. I always wanted to be like Morticia - sadly, I am quite the opposite and no costume in the world would make that possible...:-).

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Well sometimes if the computer is making you go blank or you feel your not getting anywhere you need to do something else. Eat, socialize, listen to tunes, or even sleep. I've found this out after many years of tangling with linux when occasionally it's not been too cooperative.

I'm still suprised his system didn't boot right the first time. It's weird he has no windows but it thought it did and the other stuff. Makes me wonder if it borked during the install process in general. If it did you'll find out within a week of using it. In particular if you notice "windows" under /mnt or /media be a bit concerned. It means it might of put linux on another partion and not of taken the whole drive. Too bad I'm not closer or I'd of helped you out.

Btw there is a way to mass install but you need near identical machines. There used to be a thing in mandrake to write a custom install floppy. You boot with it and the install 1 disk in the drive but set to boot from floppy. Then it would duplicate your exact install onto the other computer. Gentoo also has a way of doing that apprently. I've never tried it though I saw the option ages ago in several nix versions.