I iz Mighty!

[desperance]

Or, possibly, I iz Mighty Relieved! (And yes, I know I was trying to break myself of lolcat-subject lines, but in this instance I am allowed a petty indulgence.)

I present, to my left, laz'n'gemmun, the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection. With three, count 'em three, boot options: the Windows rescue disk; Windows Vista yuck spit; and SimplyMepis Linux. All three of them apparently working jus' fine. Yay!

Nor was it hard, on anything except my nerves, and only then because - as ever! - the printed instructions and the online instructions and the actual keyboard-and-screen process differed all three from each other, just a little, at a couple of crucial moments. But hey, we muddled through.

Now all I have to do is load my WP-of-choice into the Linux partition, and then wonder vaguely how to set up wifi (not that I have it at home - yet - but the Lit & Phil does. Sometimes. When it's working...), and I'll be sorted. For the nonce.

Alternatively I could leave these last things unsorted - for the nonce - and do some more worky-reading. Or, perhaps, some indulgent non-worky reading. Or...

*is the soul of virtue, and fetches his WP CD*

ETA: forgot to say, huge thanks to carandol for encouragement and help and nudgings...

Comments

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad to hear it's working!

If you want roaming wifi access, you'll need first of all to use the Mepis Network Assistant (which is in System Menu-->Mepis) to switch to automatic. Then reboot and run Main Menu-->Internet-->Connection-->Network Manager, and assuming that Mepis likes your wifi card, you should be able to pick up any local networks and set them up to your liking. If it doesn't work, the nice people on the Mepis forum should be able to help. (I had to use ndiswrapper and the Windows driver with mine, but it all depends on your hardware, of course).