[Cialug] Distro choice? Was: Reloaded Debian

[Nathan C. Smith]

These may be things you already know:

You might want to try using the Ubuntu desktop alternate install.  It installs with a command line, and will sometimes work where the GUI install will not.  

Also, at the CD boot screen press f4 and you can change installation type.  You can choose a graphics-safe install which sometimes works better on laptops until you get the base system loaded.

I've had issues with some Ubuntu installs myself lately and found Debian will work where Ubuntu doesn't seem to - at least at first.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sellers
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:04 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Distro choice? Was: Reloaded Debian
> 
> Actually I had tried to go with Ubuntu 8.04 from the 
> beginning per a suggestion from Josh More.  However,  I was 
> never able to get it to load on this laptop.  I actually 
> tried to install it again before re-installing Debian 4 this 
> time and had the same issue.  I ran the media check and it 
> did not find any issues with the CD that I have.  Not sure 
> what that is all about but it does not work.
> 
> I also tried to load Opensuse 11.0 on this laptop as well and 
> it hangs up before completing the installation as well.
> 
> I suspect that the laptop is old enough that there may be 
> some hardware issue with being compatible with Ubuntu and 
> Opensuse.  Unfortunately I don't have any other hardware to 
> install on so I am somewhat limited.  Based on what I had 
> read in the past I thought that Linux was able to run on 
> older hardware without any issues.  I guess that is not 
> necessarily the case.
> 
> I'll just try to make do with Debian for the time being even 
> though it may be a bit more difficult.
> 
> I'd be happy to let someone try to install from my CD to 
> something to verify that it works or doesn't!
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/28/09, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
> > Subject: [Cialug] Distro choice? Was: Reloaded Debian
> > To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 1:22 PM
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Tom Sellers
> > <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > If I don't install anything after the reload and
> > browse to the www.kcci.com site I get a box with "Click
> > here to download plugin" in the middle.  You are
> > correct that I can browse the rest of the page without any
> > seeming problems.  It is just missing something that I would
> > normally see when using a Windows browser to visit this
> > site.
> > >
> > > Is this what you mean?
> > >
> > 
> > Hi, Debian is not well known to be the most "easy to
> > get your feet
> > wet" with distribution. If you don't mind me
> > tossing out a biased
> > suggestion, I'd like to suggest trying out Ubuntu.
> > It's closely
> > related to Debian and makes a lot of the common "new
> > to LInux" tasks
> > quite easy. Pretty much all of the software you can use on
> > Debian is
> > available for Ubuntu since Ubuntu pulls from debian every
> > few months.
> > As a matter of fact, numerous Debian developers are
> > employed by
> > Canonical, the sponsors of Ubuntu. It also has some partner
> > software
> > from vendors such as vmware, adobe and sun so things like
> > java, flash
> > and etc. installation is quite easy.
> > 
> > Just an idea.
> > -- 
> > Matthew Nuzum
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