Good grief, when did Linux get difficult to install? First I start with an Ubuntu cd I have to hand, which doesn’t contain gcc. What? Whats that about? What kind of linux user doesn’t want a compiler? And virtual PC is showing pixels three times wider than they should be, which means my 800×600 desktop is somewhat falling off the edge of the window.
Rewind. Try again. Construct a Fedora .iso set, but that kernel panics in the idle thread before it can boot. Then the thread doesn’t die properly so it hangs on trying to kill it:
invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00000286 (2.6.9-1.667) EIP is at mwait_idle+0x23/0x40 eax: c03b0008 ebx: c03b0000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: 00039100 edi: c03da120 ebp: 0044a007 esp: c03b0fe8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c03b0000 task=c0354bc0) Stack: c03148d3 c010408a c03b16a6 c03df4a0 01020800 c010019f Call Trace: [ ] cpu_idle+0x1d/0x32 [ ] start_kernel+0x216/0x219 Code: d7 e8 3b 57 20 00 eb eb 53 fb ba 00 f0 ff ff 21 e2 8b 42 08 a8 08 75 2e 0 ba 6a 08 10 31 c9 bb 00 f0 ff ff 89 ca 21 e3 8d 43 08 <0f> 01 c8 8b 43 08 a8 0 75 0c 89 c8 0f 01 c9 8b 43 08 a8 08 74 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Somewhere on this desk is a proper Fedora installation disk, so maybe I have to bite the bullet and actually tidy up :(
At least I found a more sensible window manager for cygwin – it comes with a preconfigured version of GNUStep, just type wmaker….
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