Hi Philip, I am also using moblin alpha2 in an eeePc 1000H. The gray screen you have does not appear for me, and moblin has fully booted in 25 seconds (alpha 1 was a bit faster, around 20 seconds in my case).
I am also newbie so I can't tell you about the cause of your problem, you should maybe try to reinstall it. I think that I am facing the same problem than you when trying to update the system through graphical interface. Did not do it with command since I did not know the code to use. As a newbie, I agree that a "get started" section is somehow missing. I am ok to contribute to it, share what I am learning, which moblin project should I join to do so ? Also, can I bother people with moblin-related newbie questions at this mailing list ? If yes, here is my first question, really basic but I couldn't find the information : where can I find a list of all the applications installed in moblin 2 ? It may exist in the website but I did not find it. Cheers, alef On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Philipp B. Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > Kan-I Jyo schrieb: > > I am by no means an expert, but in my personal experience, > there are usually several ways to get your questions answered. > > 1. The 'man' command. It provides some basic but useful instructions > about the command you are using. You may have already known > this. :) > > 2. Major distribution's forum. Fedora and Ubuntu's forums might be a > good start. > > 3. Go to specific mailing list regarding to your software if you have a > much detailed description about your questions. Information like > the version of kernel, software, and hardware you are currently using. > > > Hello Kan-I (<-- is that your first name :-), > thanks for your reply and sorry for getting back so late. > I think I was way too unspecific, sorry for that. My main question is > directly related to Moblin. I am using > "2.6.29.rc7-40.1.moblin2-netbook" (or at least that's what GRUB tells > me) which I downloaded from the Moblin site, used UNetbootin to boot it > from USB stick and installed it to my harddrive. I am using an EeePC > 1000H (harddrive, not solid state; 2 GB RAM) in a dual boot with > Windows XP (via GRUB 0.97). > The Moblin start-up process goes like this: > 0:00 min Select to boot Moblin in GRUB > 0:14 min Start screen (grey mouse symbol) appears > 0:17 min Start screen disappears; only a plain grey screen is to be > seen > 0:46 min Plain grey screen disappears, desktop appears, Moblin is > loaded > So, the start-up until start-screen goes pretty fast, but that > "grey-screen-period" of about 29 seconds makes me wonder: Can I do > something to avoid this long "pause" (what ever happens "behind the > scenes"?). I understand that Moblin is supposed to boot fast, and > that's what it does on my machine, given I could get rid of that > inactivity or whatever-is-happening-phase with that plain grey screen. > My second question is: I cannot update Moblin, because doing so by Menu > with "Update system" shows me the number and details of the updates, > but would not let me install them (nothing happens when I click the > install button). I tried doing it on the terminal using "sudo yum > update", but all I get is a really long list with packages and some > errors about missing stuff... > Again, sorry for being unspecific in the beginning, and thanks for any > help! > Best regards, Philipp > PS. I understand that Moblin is currently still alpha and thus most > probably not for a more end-user-type of guy like me; so if the things > I'm trying to do are too complicated, please let me know and I'll wipe > Moblin and wait until it has advanced more... > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
