{"id":17,"date":"2006-03-08T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T05:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manthano.blogzor.com\/2006\/03\/08\/getting-it-going\/"},"modified":"2006-03-08T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T05:18:05","slug":"getting-it-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"getting it going\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is pretty much a reply to previous one.  I was able to get a lot of the remaining issues I had with Linux fixed last night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boot XP from grub<\/strong> &#8211; check.<br \/>\nHad to add the following line to the \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst under Windows XP before &#8220;chainloader +1&#8221;<br \/>\nmap (hd1) (hd0)<br \/>\nI also changed root (hd1,0) to rootnoverify (hd1,0) but I&#8217;m not sure if that makes a difference or not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get programs from universe and multiverse<\/strong> &#8211; check.<br \/>\nNot too difficult, but had to enable the correct repositories and then set up the proxy.  I was then able to get <a title=\"Get Thunderbird!\" href=\"http:\/\/getthunderbird.com\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> installed, however I&#8217;ll probably manually install the newer version, 1.5 later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Install fonts, particularly Verdana<\/strong> &#8211; check.<br \/>\nWith the universe and multiverse enabled, I was then able to download msttfonts, which includes Verdana, Arial, Times New Roman, etc.  All the standard windows fonts that I&#8217;m used to.  Getting this done was a bit more tricky though.  I had to configure the proxy, not only in Synaptic Package Manager, but also in a the wget file.  I also needed the cabinstall package to get the fonts to work.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s all good for now, I&#8217;ll see what I learn next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is pretty much a reply to previous one. I was able to get a lot of the remaining issues I had with Linux fixed last night. Boot XP from grub &#8211; check. Had to add the following line to the \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst under Windows XP before &#8220;chainloader +1&#8221; map (hd1) (hd0) I also changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30,41,61,90,95],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computer","tag-geek","tag-linux","tag-tech","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}