On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:54, "Sam Martin" <s.earl.martin at gmail.com> sent a missive stating: > On 10/12/06, Joey Rockhold <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> wrote: > > 3) Set up FreeNX on your home machine > > That's not a bad idea, but my home network connection's a little > spotty, and my desktop machine at home is a 933mhz pentium III. I > want to play with the core 2 duo... sigh. > > > On 10/12/06, Joey Rockhold <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 1) If you have the fortune to be able to install Windows Server on > > > your machine, you could download the free VMWare server and install > > > Linux within there. Then configure and run the VMWare console on the > > > same machine. Or, get VMWare workstation, which does not need a > > > server version of Windows. > > That would probably work, and I may end up going that route. I'm on > WinXP, but you can use easyvmx.com to create an empty virtual machine > that'll work with VMWare player. It's not as nice as Workstation, but > it's pretty handy (and free). I regularly use VMWare player from a > Linux workstation to test Windows software (we license a third-party > wince/palm app with a windows-only conduit at work, so I have to be > able to test it), so I guess doing the reverse for a while won't kill > me. > > > > 2) Try a live distrobution. > > That'd be my first choice (the beast has 2GB of RAM, so I was looking > forward to running a livecd with the "toram" option), but I can't get > one to boot. Knoppix, Slax, DSL, Mepis (I've grown quite a collection > of live cds over the years)... I'll play with the boot args to see if > I get lucky, but none of the CDs I tried could recognize my dvd drive > during the boot process. Sorry, I missed the start of this thread. What's the model of the lappy again? See if you can get into the BIOS and disable "SATA" mode or enable "legacy PATA" mode. I have a HP Pavilion DV8000 and Gentoo (the last time I tried) wouldn't install without that setting. Of course, niether would XP. Suprisingly, FreeBSD booted just fine in SATA mode. Maybe give PC-BSD a shot or grab a minimal install ISO of FreeBSD. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson rhavenn at rhavenn.net ------------------------------ "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't..."