[Cialug] KUbuntu question

[Tim Wilson]

That's what someone at work suggested.  I think I will go that route.

On 6/15/07, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/15/07, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
> > I have a pressed DVD of Edgy, and a burned copy of Feisty.  For some
> reason,
> > my laptop won't read the burned DVD (I've tried 2 burned discs with no
> > luck), but it will read the pressed DVD.  I have an external DVD drive
> that
> > can read the burned disc.  In order to install KUbuntu, I could do one
> of 2
> > things: 1. Install Edgy then upgrade later.  2. Boot Edgy, but install
> > Feisty off the external DVD drive.  It seems like I've heard of problems
> > with 1, so I'd like to do 2.  Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Why mess with DVDs?  Just download the CD image of Feisty and install
> that.  Your laptop can boot burned CDs, right?  All packages you would
> need you can just get via apt, with the front end of your choice.
>
> You may not want to do this because you already burned the DVD, but
> it's a sunk cost.  Your life will be easier just using the CD, whether
> or not you already burned a DVD.
>
> Most OS installs I have done have been some form of Debian netinst,
> where the install image was small enough to fit on a business card
> mini-CD, and the real meat and potatoes were loaded on-demand from
> apt.
>
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