Dapper….. WHY?!?!?!

Ok…. I tried the Edgy Etch Knot2 CD; nope not going to work. I installed it but the installation just never really seemed like it was ready at ALL, if that wasn’t enough after it was installed and i rebooted the system…. I recieved 2 errors something about “can’t find init” and soem other shit. So i was liek you know what I REALLY can’t bother with any headaches right now. So i just popped in my Dapper and moved forward.

Well I thought it would’ve been moving forward I ended up TRYING to install Dapper liek 4 times last night and once early this morning. Most of the installs all stopped at the same point “Installing GRUB”. Just a little tidbit about  my machine I have 2 * 250GB SATA hardrives. WinXP has a 40GB NTFS partition SMACK in the front of the drive and the rest is designated for the various linux partitions. On my way to work this morning i was trying to figureout WHY this shit wasn’t working….. but I think I may have come up with an idea. Grub wants to install on the MBR… BUT the MBR is a NTFS partition sooooo I think it had problems with that. Or maybe it was trying to boot beyond the 1024cylinder mark :-/ Does that really matter now adays?
Resolution: Use partititon magic and move the windows partition over about 10GB’s and put my root (/) and swap partition in the front of the drive.

Well later on tonight i’ll blog what I ended up doing.