Installing Ubuntu

[pozorvlak]

1100: collect delirium from IT department, now with new hard drive fitted.
Rest of day: move office, attend lectures, etc.
Evening: Attempt to find Ubuntu CD.
1930: start download of Ubuntu iso image on sharleen (wormwood_pearl's laptop). Go to juggling club

Comments

[green_jedi]

If all goes well, yes. I have been trying and failing for the last six months to install Ubuntu (as well as giving SuSe a try) - no dice. It doesn't like my motherboard, specifically the third-party IDE controller on it. Since my DVD drive is hooked up to said IDE controller, as soon as the installer begins to load it can no longer find the CD from which it just booted (talk about daft!). I keep hoping someone will write drivers for it, but so far no luck (at least, I haven't been able to find any).

By the way, I am impressed with the way you seem to be able to sleep for ten minutes at a time :)

[pozorvlak]

Hah. "Go back to bed" didn't imply "sleep", but rather "lie down, close eyes and get warm again". In fact, I didn't get back to sleep properly until about 0600 (and then slept in until 1000, when I was woken up by Women's Hour. Dammit.).

[susannahf]

It could have been worse. I could have been In Our Time, or the Archers.

[michiexile]

Personally, I would actively discourage use of SuSE or any other RPM-based distribution unless you feel you have good reason to use them. I have had nothing but grief from RPMy distros.

[pozorvlak]

Seconded. I've had nothing but trouble with them.