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.

 

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!)

 

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