Reinstalling Linux due to a slip up Part 2.
Posted 07-02-2009 at 02:53 PM by Seph64
It's been months since my last posting. But I finally got around to reinstalling Linux.
I went ahead and reformatted the windows partition to lower it's max capacity by 18GB (for Linux).
The home dir is binded to the Windows partition, specifically, the Users folder. So the Linux user home directory is shared with the Windows User directory. So there's no need to back up both places, since they are shared. This is accomplished by NTFS-3G.
18GB should be big enough for all the linux apps (except for games) I would need.
I had an issue with Xorg freezing up (or locking out any and all input from the keyboard and mouse). Checking the logs revealed no related errors, but I did see a warning, "AllowEmptyInput is on" which seemed to have disabled the input drivers that I had installed. Possibly due to the way the Xorg handles input now. And I didn't feel like messing with that, so I fixed it by turning the option off in the xorg.conf file. When I get most of my stuff installed again, I may look in to configuring Xorg properly.
So far it's going well.
I went ahead and reformatted the windows partition to lower it's max capacity by 18GB (for Linux).
The home dir is binded to the Windows partition, specifically, the Users folder. So the Linux user home directory is shared with the Windows User directory. So there's no need to back up both places, since they are shared. This is accomplished by NTFS-3G.
18GB should be big enough for all the linux apps (except for games) I would need.
I had an issue with Xorg freezing up (or locking out any and all input from the keyboard and mouse). Checking the logs revealed no related errors, but I did see a warning, "AllowEmptyInput is on" which seemed to have disabled the input drivers that I had installed. Possibly due to the way the Xorg handles input now. And I didn't feel like messing with that, so I fixed it by turning the option off in the xorg.conf file. When I get most of my stuff installed again, I may look in to configuring Xorg properly.
So far it's going well.
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