Zenwalk is installed

I finished my courses and felt confident to install Zenwalk. So far so good. I was able to partition the drive and load up Linux. I was even able to go online to post what I did.

Started with the partitioning.

hda1 FAT32 sharing between OS
hda2 ntfs Windows XP
hda5 / Zenwalk
hda6 none Will be loaded when I decide on another distro to use
hda7 /home
hda3 /swap

Notice that hda6 has not been loaded up. This is for future use. I want to be able to use this partition for some other distro. I will probably load Slackware onto this partition to do some studying how Linux works. I could use Linux From Scratch, but I'm not entirely sure I'm ready for that.

I rebooted the system and got right into Zenwalk. I played around a little and rebooted. Upon coming up to select XP, it told me I needed to remove the disk and reboot. I didn't have any disk in the drive. Didn't take too long to find that the installer set up lilo to boot from hda1. If you look at the partition table above, you'll notice that XP is on hda2. So I editted /etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo. Rebooted and came right into XP.

I found that Zenwalk set up my touch pad automatically. It also allowed me to connect up an ethernet cable and get right online.

What's not working yet? Well, the wireless card isn't working yet. I need to download the drivers and get that all set up. That will be another entry to this Blog. Another problem is this laptop has a nice bright screen that shows great in 1280 x 800. But Zenwalk only will go to 1024 x 768 or something along those lines. I really think that's all I need to configure.

I'm not going to check out the modem. I don't use that anymore, so I don't care if it's supported or not. I will need to write up a nice page on setting this up. I really want to give something back to the community.