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#16
Thanks, everyone! Got the wifi working, and all is well. Transferring all the stuff of an external hard-drive is all that's needed to make the process complete.

@Sector11; tried duct-taping the laptop and netbook together to make a 64-bit. Result was an epic fail. Maybe try again with a different color tape?
#17
General Support / Re: [fixed, but crude] WiFi problems
February 07, 2013, 07:42:22 PM
I appreciate the offer, but with that much RAM sitting there doing nothing, not an issue with this machine.

Brings up the question of;
1. Best tool to diagnose what's going on in your system? Command-line, GUI, whatever works best.
2. Is there a hardware database for what plays well in VSIDO filed away in the wiki somewhere? (One assumes that if I had problems with my Toshiba and Realtek wifi, someone else might as well...)

If there's one thing that I learned from the CrunchBang forums, it's that someone will make use of whatever you've written down to make their experience better. Looking around here, think we can duplicate that.  :)
#18
What I've always done [after the Old Ubuntu days] has been;
su
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get autoclean && apt-get autoremove
exit
, and go about your business...
You could stick it into a BASH script pretty easily, but I just like doing it manually.
#19
General Support / [fixed, but crude] WiFi problems
February 07, 2013, 05:09:26 PM
After the last install, my Realtek 802.11n chipset couldn't be recognized.
Ten years ago, if this had been the only problem encountered with a new install, it'd be golden!
But after looking on the Debian forums, I tried this in the command line;
aptitude update
aptitude install firmware-realtek wireless-tools

... and nothing.  :'( But, I know from past experience on other distro's, this should work.
Hum. Okay, we'll try this;
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome && sudo apt-get remove wicd
It worked. This is being posted over wifi, so worth mentioning.
Is it a crude fix? I assume so, but it works, and might help someone else if I post it.  ;)
9% CPU usage,  15% (567mb/3.62gb) RAM - nice!

#20
Introductions / Hey. Hi. You look fab! Great hair...
February 07, 2013, 04:11:49 AM
For anybody who doesn't already know me for the CrunchBang forums, I'm Jim.

Whenever I feel like I know what I'm doing, I try a new distro, and immediately getting lost, find my ego deflated down to a manageable size again. Such is the case with VSIDO.

Clean, fast install. No problems with the Windows Ocho partition (gotta have it for work) or dual-booting - but no Secure Boot EUFI on this machine either. Runs like a greyhound after a rabbit! Any application I want is found with a quick search on Debian and a short apt-get install later, it's there...

Aside from thanking @VastOne [very nice of you to put this out there... appreciate it], much thanks to @Sector11 for the lesson on how to use wget! http://jims2011.blogspot.com/2013/02/vsido-it-continues.html Bloody Hell! Always so much more to learn, and only so much coffee to facilitate the learning...

The only two drawbacks I've found? 64-bit only. I've got a netbook and a laptop that are 32-bit, and won't accept anything higher. Naught to be done about that, but the second? My wifi-N chipset won't recognize under Wicd (or network-manager-gnome which I replaced wick with... this usually fixes things). Have it research on my own a bit further, but hey, as long as I have a text-editor, root access, and the command-line, it's fixable.

So: see you-all when I'm running on all cylinders!

-jim