[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

[Nick Johnson]

i did the install through the live cd, and through the windows wubi
installer. both times the mouse didnt work, i tried two different usb port
mice, both of which work for about 10-15 minutes on ubuntu then become
obsolete. Also, the mouse and the keyboard are independent of one another.
And all those who said that i should get another computer off of craigs list
just for linux os, i am not familiar with the system specs for linux, so
would it need to be a fairly new system or could it stand to be a few years
old?

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Don Cady <doncady at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you get through the install, and are running off the HD, or did
> you go the LiveCD route without installing?
>
> Don
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Nick Johnson <mainbass64 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yah guys, everything is working fine with the cd and the partitions, but
> the
> > only problem that is persisting is that my mouse no longer works...
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> In case for some reason some things still don't work with the linux
> >> partitioner, defrag and scandisk in windows, then try it again.
> >> Some linux software may not be able to handle a badly fragmented drive.
> >>
> >> If that still doesn't work get partition magic(in windows) and create an
> >> Empty partition by shrinking down the windows partition, do not move it!
> >> To be on the safe side try rebooting into windows to make sure
> everything
> >> still works, some older versions of windows may freak out and start
> >> scandisk
> >> after resizing the windows partition, let scandisk do its thing. If
> >> windows
> >> is still working after all of this then take your linux cd and boot from
> >> it.
> >>
> >> When the installer gets to the partitioning you "should" see an option
> for
> >> installing linux to an empty partition. Install to the empty partition
> and
> >> things should take off and install.
> >>
> >> The above was derived from many, many screwed up linux installs I've
> done
> >> Over the years. Before I found this group everything I did was by trying
> >> it
> >> to see if it worked, if it didn't I got to format and reinstall
> >> everything.
> >>
> >> Also it would be better to have another computer to try linux on because
> >> if
> >> you mess something up you don't have worry about saving your windows
> >> install.
> >> One last thing you could try, Microsoft virtual pc, it has the ability
> to
> >> mount the iso directly. That eliminates the problem of trying to burn a
> >> disc. Hope this helps...
> >> -dh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> >> Behalf
> >> Of Todd Walton
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:25 PM
> >> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> >> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Which Distro is best?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
> >> <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> >> > Do you have a full backup of your system?
> >> > Have you tested that the backup actually works?
> >>
> >> Just to return to the big picture: the backup is "in case".  It's very
> >> unlikely that you'll screw up your Windows partition.
> >>
> >> -todd
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