Linux and Randomness
I previously posted about my computer with the jmicron controller that Linux doesn’t like. Well, Saturday was all about getting a live Linux distribution running on that computer so that I could partition the drive. Trevor came over with his Linux knowledge and we spent five (5) hours with various distributions of LiveUSB Linux and none of them would load, but we kept trying. (A liveusb distrobution is an entire Linux OS on a usb flash drive).
We kept trying because every time we would try, we would get a different result. It was completely random, and we all know how the human race is drawn to randomness. Take, for instance, the liveusb distribution of Gparted, we had to have tried that release a dozen times and every time it would hang at a different error. And the same thing happened with the liveusb release of Ubuntu and Puppy (I like Puppy because on the LiveCD I got to write “Live Puppy” and when Lindsay asked what it was I got to say “It’s a live puppy”). After five (5) hours of work I am still not to step one (1) of partitioning my harddrive.
On Sunday night Best Buy had an “exclusive” “members only” shopping experiance. I recently joined their rewards program and I’m hooked. I want to spend all of my money at Best Buy now because I can get points. And that is exactly what I did on Sunday night, I purchased a USB headset (anyone want to skype? or maybe chat on gchat?), and a video camera.
I have been looking at consumer grade video cameras for awhile, and I settled on the JVC Everio GZ-MG27. The Everio line is a harddrive based video camera that shoots standard def video with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The GZ-MG27 has a 20gb harddrive. I didn’t want to deal with any tapes so I was looking exclusivly at harddrive/flash alternatives and the Everio line gave the greatest storage in a nice small package. You can expect to see some fresh and original videos from me soon.
-Josh
Posted on October 23rd, 2006 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants
i saw this post while searching… i too just got the JVC MG27 and run Fedora Core. I recommend partitioning your harddrive using gparted (through knoppix?) if you can then installing windows (if you want) on the first partition and linux on the second. although i actually have three partitions:
1) Windows (20gb)
2) Documents/etc (big partition) (40-ishgb)
3) linux (15gb)
that way i can share documents/music/pictures/etc. seamlessly between windows and linux with no fuss. a little tricky sometimes to set up proper read/write permissions though on some distro’s.
evaluating good video programs in linux for use with the digicamcorder.
Thanks for the comment Brandon! The problem I was having with gparted and other distrobutions was that it was not compatable with the ata controller on my mother board. I’d be curious to know what file systems you use for your 3 partitions.