Am 31. May, 2006 schwätzte FoulDragon@aol.com so:

> For the first time in ages, I installed Ubuntu on my main system, mainly cos
> it was the only halfway-recent distro I had.  Grabbed it from a guy at the
> Scottsdale swap meet a while ago; I think it was 2.6.12 based, if that gives you
> a time-space
>
> I noticed two showstopper problems:
>
> 1-  Where are the X11 headers?  Not on the one-CD package?  Or am I looking
> under the wrong name?  Even gcc was turned off by default in the install, I
> suspect it's not really packaged as a developer's distribution on the single CD.

Are these the ones you want?

libx11-dev - X11 client-side library (development headers)

Distros[1] shouldn't have GCC by default. Available? Yes. Installed? No.
Most people don't need it. It's yet something else to remove for a secure
environment. Dependency checking makes it easy to install via APT :).
There's also the "Which GCC?" issue :(.

Under the applications menu is something about adding apps.

Or if you prefer the command line:

aptitude install libx11-dev
aptitude install gcc

I see gcc-4.0, gcc-3.3, gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.4 to choose from, so you might
want to specify which gcc to grab.

> B-  I built the install in a "Blind spot".  I have a 160G drive, and Win2000
> can only see the first 132G (well, you can registry-hack it, but I haven't).
> So I figured I'd be fine putting a 2.5Gb swap partition and the rest as root
> in the "blind space".
>
> When I tried to boot into Win2000, it gave a blue-screen about inaccessible
> boot device. Deleting the Linux install, then booting off an old Win95 CD and
> running 'fdisk /mbr' to purge the system of GRUB fixed it.  (And after I had
> JUST reinstalled!)

Was grub able to boot Linux?

Was the m$ partition still labelled as bootable for the disk?

grub will boot m$ partitions. Did you get a question about booting
non-Linux partitions?

> Obviously, I don't want to give up my Win2000.  How do I make 'em play
> friendly?

Wanting to keep m$ isn't obvious to me :).

ciao,

der.hans
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