Re: The Complete National Geographic on Ubuntu?
Hey Dedi!
My friend just got it this week and after getting an external DVD player we decided to get into the installation. I was kind of worried about the Adobe AIR installation but we decided to anyways try it. We tried this installation in 2 different system, a small laptop with a P3 1Ghz and 382MB of RAM and a Duron 700mhz clone with 768MB. Both have standard graphics.
You're gonna need Wine installed but dont install the one in the repositories, go to www.winehq.org and go to downloads, then Ubuntu and follow those instructions so that you get the latest Wine installed.
Then, we started on the P3, worried with the 512MB RAM requirement (as we had 382MB). The installation started, did the Air installation and got stuck there. At first we didnt knew what to do. I google'd and found that somebody had done it and that he said that he'd cancel the installation and try again untill it finished it, and to be honest, thats what did it for us too.
On the P3 we sort of gave up, we thought it was a memory problem. Then we moved on to the Duron system and we saw the same, stuck after the AIR installation. Decided to cancel and start over, the installer then asks if you want to update the AIR installation or continue without updating, which we did, then it got stuck again there for quite some time.
Using System Monitor we noticed the CPU was at 100% most of the time so we knew something was being done, eventually the Installer ended and asked to agree to the bla bla bla and soon after we were in the main interface. and we still noticed that it was slow, but we knew that the CPu wasnt up to the task, its below the requirements. We're yet to try this on the P3, which has the CPU required but a lot less RAM.
Something I wanted to mention... is... that even though the interface allows you to select which DVD you want to see (DVD #1 has the magazines for 1995-2008 ) you wont be able (untill someone comes with a solution for that) to switch DVD's because it won't let you do it. You'll see the "insert dvd#6 (or whatever) and click ok" but Ubuntu won't let you eject the DVD.
I guess one thing you can do is, knowing what data each DVD has... just insert the DVD you want to find data in and then double click on the desktop icon for the Interface. I've heard there's a way to put all the data (9gigs plus on each dvd) on the hard drive but I ain't got a clue on how the Interface will find that.
The good thing is that it works. And the last DVD, the bonus, its really interesting for National Geographic aficionados.
ELP
Last edited by SR_ELPIRATA; February 26th, 2010 at 08:32 AM.
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