I really need to get used to linux...

[Barrucadu]

I've installed ubuntu on my old laptop, and broke it within a day (won't boot).
Then again, I was following an ndiswrapper tutorial and it just froze when I ran "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper".

I will persevere and get it working, just so someone at school stops saying the rather cringeworthy phrase "get linux, its leet" (he actually SAYS leet). Plus, it'll be a learning experiance, and a way to use an old laptop that can barely handle windows xp.

Time for a reinstall!

 

[bliss]

Get a live boot cd instead and then choose the install option from the live boot cd. Also, red hat Linux has an option in the installer to automatically partition a system to do dual boot.

 

[champ_rock]

live boot cd will perform very badly if u lookinf to run it on a old laptop which cannot run XP properly

my suggestion would be install it on the hard disk and switch over to some lighter GUI which uses less RAM

 

[Barrucadu]

well, i've got it installed, and am currently trying to get my netgear wireless dongle working.
First thing I did was install the Ubuntu Satanic Edition (Evil Edgy) themes, lol.