...a nasty ******** pain in the a**. stressed

I'm taking the networking operating systems subject, which is actually my Linux class. It's easy, actually, but if I want to be able to do my homework at home instead of doing it at the lab, I have to install it in my home computer.

Now, Linux is not just a single OS like Windows; there's a LOT of versions of Linux out there, all of them with their own quirks; these versions are called "distributions", or "distros". The one I use is Ubuntu 7.10, because it looks awesome, it has pretty much everything up and working as soon as you install it, and because I can read my Windows drives with it. However, the one we're using in class is Novell SUSE 10.1; since this version needs more tinkering around to get it working and since I'm a lazy a**, ain't no way I'm using it for everyday s**t. Mind you, most Linux distros are easy to install, some of them (like Ubuntu) are even easier to install than Windows. Some of them are also harder to use than others.

However, because we have to use SUSE for class, I have to install it, so I figured out I could install SUSE and Ubuntu at the same time in my drive, and leave Windows intact. Therefore, I installed Ubuntu first, then I installed SUSE, and I thought everything would go just fine.

But after 2-3 hours, when everything was installed and I rebooted my computer... only SUSE would boot. gonk

And now here I am, setting up Ubuntu and downloading everything I can so I can run SUSE from within Ubuntu, and updating everything as well. And that involves downloading like 1 GB worth of updates. sweatdrop stressed