I admit it. I am poweless over technology and my life has become Windowless. I can’t seem to satisfy my urge to install operating systems on my computer. Only another geek would understand.
It started with Red Hat(Fedora Core actually) then moved on to Mandrake. Next I was putting Suse on hda7. Can you imagine? HDA7! We shouldn’t forget that hda6 is the swap partition so maybe that one shouldn’t count.
Last night I downloaded the ISO of Gentoo. Nobody uses Gentoo but I’m thinking about it because I’ve still got about 80 GB free.
After that I’ll probably try Slackware again. They say once you’ve installed Slackware you’ve hit bottom. It doesn’t even boot into X! Command line only. With a BASH shell. And you have to create the initrd.
I realize I’ve got a problem but I think I can handle it. After all, I’m using Grub instead of LILO. You don’t have to rebuild Grub every time you add a /boot like you do with LILO.
But I do draw the line somewhere. I will NOT install FreeBSD!
I wonder if there’s a 12 step?