I grabbed the unstable ISO and used unetbootin to install it to a USB thumb drive. I then tried to install it to a spare 4 gig SD card. After finishing the partitioning phase, the installer stated that I needed an installer key package and gave a URL for getting it, but had no directions/instruction on how to use it. I tried moving it to the thumb drive, but it wouldn't let me do that and without this install key being installed/copied/something to some appropriate place, the install stops. I did a quick Google search, didn't find anything promising and moved on to other things. It seems illogical to me to produce such a nice, slick and apparently n00bie friendly and n00bie targeted distro and then throw such a HUGE obstacle in the way of what should be a very simple installation. I was planning on demonstrating it to our Linux Desktop Special Interest Group/Newbies Group, but if I can't install it and be able to upgrade it/install additional packages, then I sure can't teach them to be able to do it.
Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kory Wnuk Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] E16 finally has serious competition. Did you grab a copy of the stable or latest ISO? I am asking this out of curiosity with reference to the install key requirement. While I did not actually install the unstable ISO, and did not use it on a low-powered machine, I did run from a CD and was definitely impressed with the sophisticated (I am not sure how else to describe it) look and feel of the GUI. -K On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:46 -0600, Richards Jr, Edward C. wrote: > I have an Asus EeePC with 512 meg ram, of which the video ram is also > shared, and ran Elive on it from a thumb drive and it worked QUITE well! > Very snappy, with all of the eye candy running, Compiz, et al. In fact, > I liked it well enough that I was going to install it on the Eee but > there was something about needing an install key and I couldn't figure > out how to implement that, so I stopped. It does just fine with Ubuntu > 8.10 on it. > > Ed Richards Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
