Day One
8-21-05
My fiance was gracious enough to give me almost a full day on Sunday to play with the new toys.
I attempted to install several several different distributions. I'm writing this a day later so i don't have a full account of every error but here's a good recollection.
Ubuntu and Kubuntu (5.04) -
Attempted install on both machines with errors that caused termination mostly accounting for file issues on the cd. I read online that a few people have had the same problem and they attributed it to burning the cd too fast. I reburned both of them at 4x just to be safe. I left these distributions alone for the time and moved to Mandrake 10.1. After my failed attempts with Mandrake I put the Ubuntu CD into the G1 and started another install. At bed time it was still installing packages. In the morning, it was sitting at a reboot prompt. I did so and booted up to a login screen! In fact i'm filling out this blog using that very machine.
Mandrake 10.1 -
I ran the install on the Gn and kept getting errors about low resources. I was able to continue the install, but I got 3 errors again referring to files. At one point during the base install it locked up and never regained consciousness... well not in the next 10 minutes anyway which is when i pulled the plug on that one and went to the G1 with Mandrake. I got no low resource errors, but the same 3 error messages came up. That's when i figured i had another cd burned too fast, but it locked up at a later point as well. I restarted that install and performed one in text mode. This one went extremely smooth except when i got to a boot prompt and logged in, I had no idea what to do. xfree86 wouldn't start. startx returned no file named found. I searched online for how to get X running, but couldn't find much useful documentation. I was a little frustrated at this point and probably gave up sooner than i should have. This is when i went to Ubuntu again.
I'm unable to work on the project tonight (8-22-05) due to work I need to get done, but tommorrow i'll be working with Kubuntu on the Gn. It's not the greatest machine, so i'm worried i might have to go with a smaller distro that is for older less powerful machines. This machine (G1) will be used to show at a committie i'm attempting to organize to help me decide on the best distro to use.
My fiance was gracious enough to give me almost a full day on Sunday to play with the new toys.
I attempted to install several several different distributions. I'm writing this a day later so i don't have a full account of every error but here's a good recollection.
Ubuntu and Kubuntu (5.04) -
Attempted install on both machines with errors that caused termination mostly accounting for file issues on the cd. I read online that a few people have had the same problem and they attributed it to burning the cd too fast. I reburned both of them at 4x just to be safe. I left these distributions alone for the time and moved to Mandrake 10.1. After my failed attempts with Mandrake I put the Ubuntu CD into the G1 and started another install. At bed time it was still installing packages. In the morning, it was sitting at a reboot prompt. I did so and booted up to a login screen! In fact i'm filling out this blog using that very machine.
Mandrake 10.1 -
I ran the install on the Gn and kept getting errors about low resources. I was able to continue the install, but I got 3 errors again referring to files. At one point during the base install it locked up and never regained consciousness... well not in the next 10 minutes anyway which is when i pulled the plug on that one and went to the G1 with Mandrake. I got no low resource errors, but the same 3 error messages came up. That's when i figured i had another cd burned too fast, but it locked up at a later point as well. I restarted that install and performed one in text mode. This one went extremely smooth except when i got to a boot prompt and logged in, I had no idea what to do. xfree86 wouldn't start. startx returned no file named found. I searched online for how to get X running, but couldn't find much useful documentation. I was a little frustrated at this point and probably gave up sooner than i should have. This is when i went to Ubuntu again.
I'm unable to work on the project tonight (8-22-05) due to work I need to get done, but tommorrow i'll be working with Kubuntu on the Gn. It's not the greatest machine, so i'm worried i might have to go with a smaller distro that is for older less powerful machines. This machine (G1) will be used to show at a committie i'm attempting to organize to help me decide on the best distro to use.
posted by Bryan F. at 5:26 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Bryan, Thanks for pursuing this. I had mandrake recommended to me during a discussion when the LUS DD committee was exploring the issue. I'll try and find that name and send it on to you. I know he'd played around with it and so must have gotten it to install.
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