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

[michiexile]

What do you mean waiting for? My laptop is already running Ubuntu!

[pozorvlak]

I wasn't talking to you :-) And actually, the percentage of my acquaintance that isn't running Ubuntu (even leaving aside the other flavours of Linux) is rapidly diminishing. Which gives me hope for Linux world domination by 2008.

There are some holdouts, some of whom have good reasons: bronxelf_ag001's reply would probably be "Linux-based CAD software isn't yet good enough", for instance - she's one of those AutoCAD users for whom nothing else will do. But as for the rest of you, get with the programme, guys! :-)

[michiexile]

Oh, and sleep tight.

[pozorvlak]

Thanks :-)

[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.

[susannahf]

Completely matches my experience, except that it took about 6 hours to download the ISO due to Tiscali killing our broadband between 50 and 78% complete for the first n tries (where n>10). Oh, and the fact that my spare CD-Rs were buggered.

[androidkiller]

I found it really easy - especially since our uni computing service mirrors the repositries locally, so it took practically no time at all to download the ISO.

The only thing I needed help with was then changing Ubuntu so that it used these local repositries so updates wouldn't count against my download limit.