Re: xubuntu upgrade/install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop manager' I've had a few people tell me the same, and upon investigation the system did eventually get into GNOME, but could take upwards of half an hour to get there due to slow CPU speed and low RAM. While LiveCDs are a nice idea, they are not practical for low-RAM systems. My advice is to use the Alternate installer instead. FWIW, I use this installer even on high-RAM systems for two major reasons: 1) It's much faster. A full install can sometimes be done in the time it takes the LiveCD GUI installer just to boot to the desktop! 2) It also offers advanced disk setup options like RAID, LVM and Encrypted LVM (a must for laptop users). These can be done automatically by the installer (good for new users wanting advanced features), manually by hand (good for us old greybeards who know exactly what we want), or skipped altogether for simple partitioning. It is not difficult to use. There's no mouse input, but menus are driven via ncurses (a quasi GUI system for console), and all options are selectable with the keyboard arrows. Don't fear the Alternate installer just because it's not mouse driven. I tried different things for booting the machine vga=792 - this was needed in gutsy nosplash... to see what is happening fully live cd live cd with graphics compatibility (or whatever it is called) mode selected (F4 during boot) vga=normal is the way to set a standard text/non-framebuffer mode on standard PC hardware. Also remove the quiet option to see more stuff happening (in conjunction with nosplash, which you use already). -Dan Hi Dan, I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still. After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time. the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here... Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware detection/config file thing going on? seb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJDVrjMuBzgG5z7F8RAjwhAJ9ztTPXTi00LTl7MMowU7zk6Zqf8wCfSluU vPIoh+gU+wNKecbcg5i0Ve8= =0JFh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
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Hi all Thank you very much for the many responses to my questions. I now have lots of info to check out. regards david -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu in Western Australia
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 12:00 +, phils linux box [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: re ubuntu in western Australia To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Any one over in this part of the world ? Australia seems teh poorer relation as not much I can find since May 2007 regards Phil WA I'm also from WA. If you need anything, give me a hoy. Chris -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: xubuntu upgrade/install
Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi Dan, I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still. After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time. the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here... Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware detection/config file thing going on? It sounds more like there's a mismatch between the driver Xorg is selecting and your actual hardware. You can get back to a terminal/tty from X by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, and then logging in with your credentials from there. Have a look at the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if there are any notable error messages, particularly towards the end. If it makes no sense to you, post it to the list and I'll have a look over it. -Dan -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: OK to ignore Evolution updates?
David wrote: Hi, I don't use Evolution or Thunderbird. Is it OK for me to ignore (not install) the updates that Ubuntu's update manager lists? If you don't use either, it's far better to remove them from your system, although i think in the case of Evolution you can't do this without breaking the ubuntu-desktop meta package. Even if you don't use software, it still represents a risk (albeit a lower one) if it is installed on your system. I would suggest removing Thunderbird and updating Evolution whenever a security update is released. I usually configure my systems to automatically apply security updates. Paul smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
