i love buntu ppl but to go throu all this trouble to install it's nuts
instead download the latest mint and have fun or if you really love buntu
then install a previous version and upgrade to latest.my 2 c
note:buntu=ubuntu,short in zulu.
Last edited by kuvanito; July 14th, 2010 at 10:18 AM.
I sort of agree... trouble is now I've got used to Ubuntu on my other machine XP is looking decidedly clunky. I will give Mint a try and perhaps Ubuntu 8.x - I couldn't get 9.x to boot on the machine in question when I tried a year or so ago... and neither would it boot crunchbang... apparently this is not a machine that likes Linux!
Ok. Hardy Heron installed fine! Great news. Any tips on how to get my wireless card working so I can get online and update it?
OK!!! Believe it or not I've solved this issue, which it turns out was caused by...my wireless card.
Cut a long story short following an update which hung just like all the other aborted attempts I ended up semi-successfully installing openSUSE, which hung while checking for network devices. On a hunch I pulled my wireless card out and rebooted. No problem any more. A google search revealed that the chipset on the Belkin card does not play nice with Linux in general...
I couldn't get openSUSE to connect to my network, so after a good few hours of fiddling I thought maybe, just maybe the network card might have been the issue all along...and perhaps I should try Ubuntu again.
So - I haven't installed "normal" Ubuntu, as the Mint CD turned up first, and I thought I'd give it a go. I have now successfully booted Mint with no messing required, which had an identical issue to standard Ubuntu, so I'm 99% confident that's that what it was. Well, finally it ain't broke, so I ain't gonna try and fix it. I think I'll try Mint out and see how I get on.
Thanks for all the help. It's only been a few days out of my life...
Thanks nomodeset xforcevesa acpi=off work for my prob in the Toshiba L10
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