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Linux 2.4 VM Documentation Completed

Posted by timothy on from the what-does-what dept.

cyb97 writes "kerneltrap.org is reporting that Mel Gorman has finished his project to document the ins and outs of the Linux 2.4 VM. Available in PDF/HTML/TXT at his webpage."

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  1. HOWTO install Belchdata by zogger · · Score: 3, Funny
    Good point! I'll give it a shot! How I first installed open source! Here I go!

    Cool,my geek friend in town handed me these disks, he said he downloaded them off his dads cable! Got me the new belchdata free OS vs1.34alpha

    slap cd in, turn it on!...aww shoot, forget to set "biosphere", need to tell it which thingee to look at fust, OK, try again...now, you must mash [enter]

    Wow, a PERFECT screen! I can read everything, crystal clear! Better than the old screen and it's not installed yet! This ought to be GOOD!!...now, you must mash [enter]

    hmm, pick out a nation... hmm ashcanistan, no... hmm, polynesia, that sounds nice, hot babes, beaches... now, you must mash [enter]

    select keyboard? Where's the dang YES button,yes I want a *ing keyboard, yas cretins...now, you must mash[enter]

    select mouse type? hmm, it got buttons and wires wif it...now, you must mash[enter]

    select time, "are you underwater in greenwhichs merididan at midnight" ??huh..... what is that, metric??? I'm a MURICAN! I want REAL TIME, and after 5 o clock, I DEMAND real time and a half!...now, you must mash [enter]

    OK, now it sez I get to install! first, select my "bootloader". hhmm, I lookdown "danners" next...now, you must mash [enter]

    partition? naw,I could care less about the middle east, what's up asking all these stupid geography questions???? I just want to install it, next......now, you must mash [enter]

    password? WTF is this??? I don't got no passport, I never go to any of them furrin places, so I don't need no steenking passport word! next....now, you must mash [enter]

    OK, select one, desktop, workstation,media center,server,laptop, scientifical platform, games....hmmm, which am I ? CUSTOM! COOL BEANS,that means HOTROD! I CAN PICK WHUT I WANT!...now, you must mash [enter]

    WHUT the HECK are all these things???? Huh, there's 5,000 *ING things I never heard of! Where the HECK does it say "intarweb" and "email" and "tunes" what the ***k is up with all this stuff?!? WHUT, I need to "go online" to find out? I JUST TRASHED MY COMPUTER YOU DIP WADS, I CAN'T GET ONLINE NOW! grumble.....OK-I seem to have selected a nice selection, using the "every other one" method, let's see what happens now, clickety.....

    AAAAK! I JUST SAW 100 MEGS OF URDU COMPILER GO BY! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE URDU IS ON THE GLOBE! 100 MEGS! BACK TO THE FREEKING GEOGRAPHY LESSONS AGAIN! AND COMPILER, WHAT IS THAT? It's already hit 4 gigs of piles of stuff! It don't need to pile up no more!

    ----- go off wagon, bring back case of suds and two bottles of rotgut----

    now, you must mash [enter] & [enter]

    ...one hour later....

    WHOOP! It looks like I'm done! Now it wants me to make a floppy "boot" disk! WTF again! All this CRAP and it can't turn itself on? What is this "boot" fetish, are these guys pre-verts or whut?

    ..grumble, find some old floppy that works....

    ..20 floppies later, I find one that appears to accept the data..

    now, you must mash [enter]

    Finished! Now it sez it will automagically reboot! I'm IN LIKE FLINT! YAHOO!

    ...box starts making noises, weirdo crap floats by on screen..wow, lookit all that stuff! ..wish I knew what it was, uh oh, looks like it's finishing!

    and here it is!

    uhhh

    WTF HAPPENED TO MY SCREEN! HOWCOME THE SCREEN IS ALL FORKED UP NOW? IT WAS WORKING ALL THROUGH THE INSTALL, WHY THEY CHANGE IT?

    ... 3 hours later....

    now, you must mash [enter]

    ..hmm, it sez to plz to set horizontal frequency and vertical syncronization as approved by the amalgamated druids of outer finland...???

    huh..uhhh OK, sure......

    OK, I guess some numbers in the middle,this is a medium priced computer, that should work......

    now, you must mash [enter]

    AARRGGHH! ME EYES! WHAR ME COMPUTER GO TO?

    ...3 days later, many trips t