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gakk gakk

October 27, 2004

Compared to yesterday the Linux attempts today have been smooth sailing. I erased everything from the disk deleted all partitions and started from scratch. Here’s what I did:

  • Ran the WinXP installer. Created a FAT32 partition to use for the WinXP install and installed. So far so good.
  • Created three additional partitions: one for Linux (ext3 format) one for shared data between Win and Linux (FAT32) and a Linux swap particion.
  • Installed DeMuDi I had to do this a few times before getting it right but now it’s working.
  • The DeMuDI install also Grub a multiboot boot loader. Grub immediately discovered the WinXP install and now I can choose to start in Win or Linux.
  • DeMuDi installs lots of audio apps so now I’m set to play around and start investigating and testing.
  • As a pleasant surprise audio was working instantly. The same went for network connection on a LAN with DHCP.

Next on the list:

  • Create a grub boot floppy.
  • Manage to load the data partition whith read/write permissions so that I can use it.
  • Look into Pd.
  • Learn more on how to use Linux in general.
  • Check out if there’s any Linux drivers for my MOTU828 sound card.

I’m really happy about the three day workshop at BEK with Adam Hyde. I’ve managed to achive all that I hoped for in theese three days. This is something I’ve planned and wanted to do for a long time but never got around to do. Proberbly it would have been a lot harder to get this working without someone to ask along the way. Along the way I’ve also consulted the Agnula user mailing list and received very useful feedback.