Dapper Drake up and running on a new HDD
Saturday, May 27th, 2006I’ve got a new harddrive purchased from toycat with 80GB of free space 
I thought I can put it inside my box just as a data drive but I did not realized that I already have all IDE channels occupied (10GB+40GB+DVD-ROM+DVD-RW) so I decided to put there new linux distro and give that 40GB hdd to Jana(10GB HDD has Windows installed on and I need it for some really strange reasons).
First install was bad, I told ubuntu to save grub to /dev/hdb0 (yes, it is primary slave because of stupid Windows) and then it refused to boot. After some detective work I have given it up and reinstalled it and told it to place grub to the right place (/dev/hda0). Then the customisation part has begun.
TV card (Leadtek Winfast 2000) works like a charm even with remote controller! (Jana accidentally almost turned off my computer when she was shutting down her by the same remote ) I use TVTime app to watch tv btw. After that I updated some sources in /etc/apt/sources.list and accidentally deleted “main” strings in repositories definitions… Nomed and Roxville, thank you guys for help with realizing how stupid I am After that I installed some of my favourite apps like Abiword to write some text, f-spot to organize photos, GIMP 2.3 (thanks Josh for link to .deb of GIMP 2.3) and Inkscape (an autopackage of SVN version - it has really nice new feature, I do recommend it) for some graphics stuff, Epiphany for browsing and Gnome-gmail script as default mail application, gajim as jabber client…and more and more other packages. (yes, I am making a list of my favourite apps from this blog entry 
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There were some troubles getting mp3 and DVD movies working but with a help mibo at ubuntu@conf.netlab.cz (czech ubuntu help) I’ve got it working now For tomorrow, ehm, for today now I am going to customize system a bit more and transfer all data from the 40GB HDD to the new one. I hope I will have time to finish some illustrations I work on. For now the dapper on my box looks like this:
Ubuntu Dapper Drake
(Doufám že budou fungovat) Už teď se těším na další podobnou akci, mohli bysme to měsíčně opakovat 