LOVE it :)

[vinnywright]

Ok hear I go..........he he

I'v ben using Kubuntu 9.04 jj on my old HP pavilion XE763 700MHz-CPU 383-RAM I810-gfx
and have ben perfictley happy with it!.....all though no cool 3D efx

BUT...........yesterday my sisterinlaw gave me her tower.

it's a Gateway 5200x P4 HT dool core runing at 3-Ghz thay onley had 512 RAM in it in2-256 chips but I had 2-512 chips laying around and it has 4 slots......so.....now it has 1.5Gig of RAM runing dool chanell
it had a 200Gig SATA drive that was 1 resque partition ?? about 10 Gig Vfat and the rest NTFS for windows XP in that order.

So I first half to get by the fact that my nephews thought thay'd have some fun and onley have 1 passworded login avalabel..................but some F8 and safe moad got me a Administrator login

now it's remove the old acct.'s and add mine...........then run chkdsk................now defrag................wate.........wate.........OK now it's the gparted livecd and shrink the NTFS partition down to 30Gig's .....(It wouldent be hear at all but the wifey want's it....SO....) then set up the rest like this

vinny@desktop:~$ sudo parted
GNU Parted 1.8.8
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print all
Model: ATA WDC WD2000JD-22H (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 200GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 32.3kB 4680MB 4680MB primary fat32
1 4680MB 37.0GB 32.3GB primary ntfs boot
3 37.0GB 58.2GB 21.2GB primary ext3
4 58.2GB 200GB 142GB extended
5 58.2GB 199GB 141GB logical ext3
6 199GB 200GB 1135MB logical linux-swap

mean wile wile all that was taking place my old box was DLing the Kubuntu 9.04 jj livecd
(my old box had 8.04 on it first and had given me a upgrade to 9.04 wile adding medeabuntu stuff.......eneyway I onley had the 8.04cd)

SO now I have the cd and a newley partitiond drive 8) and I think I'm allmost ready......AAAA I nead my wierless card from the old box............OK............stick it in the new box ..................OK fire up windows install the drivers reboot OK windows is good.......ya who cares .......LOL pop in the 9.04 cd reboot ......install...........coffee.....and a smoke......................AAAAreboot time ........let's cross our fingers..........AND WOW I was allmost dizzey frome the diference in the eye candey when you have somthing that will do it.
I love this 3D stuff ......I'v allways wanted a box that could handel it........I.....I'm gona cry I'm so happy

AND to top it off evey thing is just working.....even the wierless.............I know strang.......LOL
I wasent shure the multy card reader built into the box would work but it seams to.......and the ath9k is working my linksys card with the default nework manager?........no encription so I dont know how it would fare with that but it's working fine for me

AND I think grub got the resque partition to..........I havent tested it yet posting this brought my mind back to it from the dazaling 3D stuff .......but thare is an entrey in /boot/grub/menu.lst for it and it look's corect.
it seams to be runing just fine......He** it hasent even touched the swap yet........LOL

hears some specks

vinny@desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux desktop 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
vinny@desktop:~$

vinny@desktop:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1511136 1220060 291076 0 34744 852736
-/+ buffers/cache: 332580 1178556
Swap: 1108444 0 1108444
vinny@desktop:~$

vinny@desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
vinny@desktop:~$

vinny@desktop:~$ cat /pros/cpuinfo
cat: /pros/cpuinfo: No such file or directory
vinny@desktop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 3
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 3000.227
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips : 6000.45
clflush size : 64
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 3
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 3000.227
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips : 6000.35
clflush size : 64
power management:

vinny@desktop:~$

well that should do it.
I'll EDEIT it when I test booting the resqu partition.

VINNY

EDIT: grub did indeed let me boot the resque partition just fine.