Dual Booting With XP and Ubuntu
Booting Knoppix from a USB memory stick was all fun and games, until the cheap USB stick broke. I could get another USB stick and copy the contents over. "Or why not dual boot?" I thought. My notebook has a 60gb drive and after doing house cleaning, I'm only using 15gb of it. I don't want to reformat and have to reinstall Windows. Gparted to the rescue! I used it to shrink down the Windows partition and add some new partitions for Linux (if people would like more details on this process, let me know, there's some tricks to do this). Now I have space for Linux which flavor will I go with?
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So I'm not out to hack anything, just sniff the air and see who and what is out there. I had a stable rig setup with Windows + Netstumbler + Orinoco wireless card + home built cantenna. Life was good. But I was curious about the other side (the dark side?). How would a Linux + Kismet setup do? Linux, with the right drivers, allows the wireless card to go into a monitor mode where the card just listens to what ever is in the air. Unlike Netstumbler, which constantly has to keep sending requests out, like "any access points out there?" So it was a quest of mine to persuade my HP Pavilion (the ze5185 flavor for those wondering)