britlion
November 8th, 2009, 11:40 PM
I downloaded i386, and tried to boot it in a VMware machine.
It hung, with a blinking cursor.
I downloaded i386 Netbook, and booted it on a netbook.
Booted, and when I chose "install" it came up with an error. In text mode it was more forthcoming: Invalid or Corrupt kernel image.
So, this is the third release in a row I'm walking away from, shaking my head. Incidentally, windows 7 installs and works just fine. If Canonical want to be the competition, they should worry less about pretty user interface changes and make it just work on live hardware. Or virtual hardware or something.
oh, I have a server using 8.10 that's been just fine. I've never upgraded though. I didn't have the heart to make trouble for myself. On the desktop side, 8.10 and 9.04 have been jsut execrable in terms of getting them to work as mainstream operating systems.
No doubt I'll be trying again in six months, trying to be excited about booting microsoft off the computer; but frankly if I can't use my computer to do what I want, and with windows I can, how on earth can I consider changing?
This time, I can't even install...
So, anyone else had such issues? Is it just me that's plain linux unlucky?
It hung, with a blinking cursor.
I downloaded i386 Netbook, and booted it on a netbook.
Booted, and when I chose "install" it came up with an error. In text mode it was more forthcoming: Invalid or Corrupt kernel image.
So, this is the third release in a row I'm walking away from, shaking my head. Incidentally, windows 7 installs and works just fine. If Canonical want to be the competition, they should worry less about pretty user interface changes and make it just work on live hardware. Or virtual hardware or something.
oh, I have a server using 8.10 that's been just fine. I've never upgraded though. I didn't have the heart to make trouble for myself. On the desktop side, 8.10 and 9.04 have been jsut execrable in terms of getting them to work as mainstream operating systems.
No doubt I'll be trying again in six months, trying to be excited about booting microsoft off the computer; but frankly if I can't use my computer to do what I want, and with windows I can, how on earth can I consider changing?
This time, I can't even install...
So, anyone else had such issues? Is it just me that's plain linux unlucky?