Its Out! - Page 2

Daz · 18-10-2007, 17:12

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Originally Posted by LeperousDust

i still dont entirely trust linux reading and writing to my exisitng NTFS partitions...

Don't be, it's excellent now. Even the paranoid people I know will trust it read-only at least.

Garp · 18-10-2007, 17:20

Found a nice source for the amd64 iso, I'll have it available in about 5 minutes

edit: and Its there

Joe 90 · 18-10-2007, 18:08

got an odd problem...

the disk boots fine, but after selecting any of the options from the menu it shuts down my monitor - i get the powersave message and then the green light just flickers....
wtf?
i can't do **** without being able to see whats goin on!

Mark · 18-10-2007, 18:13

I had that with Edgy. Took some fiddling around with the boot manager to sort it. I can't remember the commands offhand but you need to disable the fancy startup graphics.

Joe 90 · 18-10-2007, 18:22

well i've found this - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

but its been that long since i used and unix systems that i'm a little cautious...can you run those commands whilst running it 'live'

Mark · 18-10-2007, 18:25

When it gets to the boot screen, hit the key that says to edit the boot commandline (possibly F6, but it'll be along the bottom of the screen), and add 'noquiet nosplash' on the end. That should hopefully get you to a state that allows you to install.

Feek · 18-10-2007, 19:06

Isn't it just another distro, what's so good?

Dr. Z · 18-10-2007, 19:14

I have actually moved from Ubuntu to Gentoo now. I found it to be too much handholding and whatnot and it started to get intrusive. I didnt want to move to debian proper or slackware so Gentoo it was. Huge learning curve but now I am getting there its much better IMO. Certainly faster when you get it set up right.

6.10 was the best 'buntu for me, I really hated 7.04. Maybe I will try 7.10 in a VM or something.

I can also host the binaries for a while if people want their bandwidth back? I have 0 limits on bandwidth and depending on the time of the day I could probably saturate 5 20Mb connections at once.

Will · 18-10-2007, 19:33

So what's different from this and the Edgy distro?

BillytheImpaler · 18-10-2007, 19:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feek

Isn't it just another distro, what's so good?

It's notable for its ease of use, clever live CD installer, support of hardware, and commitment of FOSS. Other distros like SuSE or RH are also good, shiny, and polished but they lack the "free-ness" of Ubuntu. Ubuntu fans are a vocal bunch and as such it grew in popularity. It's now the most popular distro and its success keeps attracting more people to try it.

EDIT: I love BitTorrent so much. The more people hammer the mirrors the faster my downloads get. I have downloaded all i386 and AMD64 versions and host them locally for friends and family.

18-10-2007, 17:20	#12
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Found a nice source for the amd64 iso, I'll have it available in about 5 minutes edit: and Its there __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"? Last edited by Garp; 18-10-2007 at 17:23.

18-10-2007, 18:08	#13
Joe 90 Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chester Posts: 2,345	got an odd problem... the disk boots fine, but after selecting any of the options from the menu it shuts down my monitor - i get the powersave message and then the green light just flickers.... wtf? i can't do **** without being able to see whats goin on! __________________ 360 Blog \| Join GiffGaff \| Twitter

18-10-2007, 18:22	#15
Joe 90 Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chester Posts: 2,345	well i've found this - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI but its been that long since i used and unix systems that i'm a little cautious...can you run those commands whilst running it 'live' __________________ 360 Blog \| Join GiffGaff \| Twitter

18-10-2007, 19:06	#17
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Isn't it just another distro, what's so good? __________________

18-10-2007, 19:14	#18
Dr. Z I'm going for a scuttle... Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,021	I have actually moved from Ubuntu to Gentoo now. I found it to be too much handholding and whatnot and it started to get intrusive. I didnt want to move to debian proper or slackware so Gentoo it was. Huge learning curve but now I am getting there its much better IMO. Certainly faster when you get it set up right. 6.10 was the best 'buntu for me, I really hated 7.04. Maybe I will try 7.10 in a VM or something. I can also host the binaries for a while if people want their bandwidth back? I have 0 limits on bandwidth and depending on the time of the day I could probably saturate 5 20Mb connections at once. __________________

18-10-2007, 18:13	#14
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I had that with Edgy. Took some fiddling around with the boot manager to sort it. I can't remember the commands offhand but you need to disable the fancy startup graphics.

18-10-2007, 18:25	#16
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	When it gets to the boot screen, hit the key that says to edit the boot commandline (possibly F6, but it'll be along the bottom of the screen), and add 'noquiet nosplash' on the end. That should hopefully get you to a state that allows you to install.

18-10-2007, 19:33	#19
Will BBx woz 'ere :P Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 2,147,487,208	So what's different from this and the Edgy distro? __________________ *No No!*