So the motherboard in Pluto died the other day. Pissed me off. It was troublesome when I put it in (it was used) and it seems to have gone back to the problem it was having before. I tried another motherboard in it, but it was also used and had some problems. I finally broke down and bought a new motherboard and processor (so I could speed the server up a bit).

After I got the thing installed, it didn't want to work very well, at least with the hard drives. I kept getting an Invalid partition message from the FreeBSD boot manager. I'd been having some problems because it was my first install of FreeBSD 5.x anyway, so I thought I'd try and reinstall it. That still didn't work.

I finally broke down and decided that a Linux install would make me a better desktop anyway, so I installed that instead. Two days later, I've got it up and running, almost completely. I've also got KDE using the multimedia keys on the keyboard. I just have a few more pieces of software to install and it'll be finished.