I'm currently installing Kubuntu on Excalibur,
I wasn't going to, but Chris keeps nagging me to try Ubuntu, so I'm going to try it for a bit even though I'm perfectly happy with Debian testing. I'm not switching to Gnome so I went and got Kubuntu:
My experience so far:
No real problem finding a Torrent link.
The first thing it did upon booting was flake out my video card. I don't hold this against it, for some reason this video card likes to flake out with the Linux default non-proprietary nVidia driver. I rebooted into "Safe Graphics Mode" and it worked just fine.
The installer is very nice, I like it.
Found a bug! I was trying to partition the PATA drive with swap and the OS and the SATA drive as /home. I kept getting the error "can't have the end before the start". I looked it up. Yep, it's a bug alright. I'll have to partition after setup and change my fstab manually.
One of the first things I notice is that KDE is not "virgin", lots of distro specific fiddlings.
There was no "home" button on the launch bar, and no obvious way to add it. I looked at the Debian machine I'm typing this on, properties are far different. I don't know if this is because the KDE is out of date on Warbird (I've held off updating until I have a second good running system incase i screw one up) or if it's been "Ubuntued" into being oversimplified.
I didn't find anything that obviously resembled my SATA drive in /etc so I typed in "system:/" in konqueror, I didn't see it listed as media either. I tried /mnt and /media, no dice.
At this point I figured I would try gparted, so I brought up Adept from the KMenu, it updates it's package list and my DSL dropped. Stupid Verizon. I'm going to go eat my noodles and watch a movie............Back from movie, DSL still not up. Calling up Verizon to bitch.........Hey look, a yo-yo connection!.......support calling dispatch team.......dispatch team doesn't want me, it's working now getting the advanced support team for reasons of intermittancy........Never talk to one of them, but they're sending someone on Thursday. I don't know why, the only thing plugged into my DMARC at the moment is the two wires that go to the jack that has their POS Actiontech modem/router when all I wanted was a bridge, so where were we?
Installed QTParted, worked great, new partition on SDA, 372 GB. On that note "Add and Remove Programs" is what I clicked to bring up adept - where have I heard that before?
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 Great!
edit fstab, yikes! It's really vi! :q! then try vim, it worked
mounted /dev/sda1 as home, looks like it's working find, gonna reboot to test properly now.
Where's my wall of text?!?!?! Uhmm, it came back up normally, I may have to get rid of that GUI boot
Now doing the nVidia driver install. This was always one of major speed bumps from any Linux or BSD install I've done it on. It says install complete, uhm, that doesn't seem right. glxgears, slow..... I'm not stupid it's restart X time! (even though it didn't tell me to) Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace did not give me an nVidia logo, chose restart X the login menu, still no logo, reboot! Still no logo! Edit xorg.conf, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace, hmm, it didn't like that. init 1 --- since when does typing init1 bring up a graphical screen?
Back to command line in rescue mode, some things never change.
w3m to get the official nVidia driver, what do you know? I don't have the sources i need on the system! Just like old times.
Why the heck is this thing using X11R6? It should be using X11R7
Poke around find the nvidia auto configuration utility leftover from the package, Garbage on screen!
I'm tired. Most of this can wait for tomorrow night, if I get to fed up with it, it's back to Debian, where at least I have a little better experience fighting this same issue and it doesn't try to GUI me to death in the console.
My experience so far:
No real problem finding a Torrent link.
The first thing it did upon booting was flake out my video card. I don't hold this against it, for some reason this video card likes to flake out with the Linux default non-proprietary nVidia driver. I rebooted into "Safe Graphics Mode" and it worked just fine.
The installer is very nice, I like it.
Found a bug! I was trying to partition the PATA drive with swap and the OS and the SATA drive as /home. I kept getting the error "can't have the end before the start". I looked it up. Yep, it's a bug alright. I'll have to partition after setup and change my fstab manually.
One of the first things I notice is that KDE is not "virgin", lots of distro specific fiddlings.
There was no "home" button on the launch bar, and no obvious way to add it. I looked at the Debian machine I'm typing this on, properties are far different. I don't know if this is because the KDE is out of date on Warbird (I've held off updating until I have a second good running system incase i screw one up) or if it's been "Ubuntued" into being oversimplified.
I didn't find anything that obviously resembled my SATA drive in /etc so I typed in "system:/" in konqueror, I didn't see it listed as media either. I tried /mnt and /media, no dice.
At this point I figured I would try gparted, so I brought up Adept from the KMenu, it updates it's package list and my DSL dropped. Stupid Verizon. I'm going to go eat my noodles and watch a movie............Back from movie, DSL still not up. Calling up Verizon to bitch.........Hey look, a yo-yo connection!.......support calling dispatch team.......dispatch team doesn't want me, it's working now getting the advanced support team for reasons of intermittancy........Never talk to one of them, but they're sending someone on Thursday. I don't know why, the only thing plugged into my DMARC at the moment is the two wires that go to the jack that has their POS Actiontech modem/router when all I wanted was a bridge, so where were we?
Installed QTParted, worked great, new partition on SDA, 372 GB. On that note "Add and Remove Programs" is what I clicked to bring up adept - where have I heard that before?
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 Great!
edit fstab, yikes! It's really vi! :q! then try vim, it worked
mounted /dev/sda1 as home, looks like it's working find, gonna reboot to test properly now.
Where's my wall of text?!?!?! Uhmm, it came back up normally, I may have to get rid of that GUI boot
Now doing the nVidia driver install. This was always one of major speed bumps from any Linux or BSD install I've done it on. It says install complete, uhm, that doesn't seem right. glxgears, slow..... I'm not stupid it's restart X time! (even though it didn't tell me to) Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace did not give me an nVidia logo, chose restart X the login menu, still no logo, reboot! Still no logo! Edit xorg.conf, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace, hmm, it didn't like that. init 1 --- since when does typing init1 bring up a graphical screen?
Back to command line in rescue mode, some things never change.
w3m to get the official nVidia driver, what do you know? I don't have the sources i need on the system! Just like old times.
Why the heck is this thing using X11R6? It should be using X11R7
Poke around find the nvidia auto configuration utility leftover from the package, Garbage on screen!
I'm tired. Most of this can wait for tomorrow night, if I get to fed up with it, it's back to Debian, where at least I have a little better experience fighting this same issue and it doesn't try to GUI me to death in the console.