Archive for December, 2007

How to Kill GRUB?

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

No, I’m not talking about those worms in the yard – this is a computer problem! While experimenting with different Linux OS versions to install on my old laptop, the GRUB bootloader was installed. Actually it was installed by DSL (Damn Small Linux). I loved DSL by the way, but it would not recognize my [...]

Adventures in Linux

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

I have this old laptop sitting around collecting dust. I paid good money for this thing 5 or 6 years ago, but now it can’t run the latest Windows software. Otherwise, it works just fine. So what should I do with it? Problem 1: My old laptop works fine and still has some life in [...]