On 7 Nov, 03:40, Microbe <xxxmicrobe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Damn I wish I had blogged my entire experience with this - maybe > someone would do something about it. > > Deciding to persevere I have been trying to install Medibuntu for the > last 24 hours based on suggestions (thanks!)
Good Day Microbe ,from a new member on this list and only been using Ubuntu for since ver 8 something or other . Although posting using windows xp & Firefox as a browser (dual boot) So had a bit of a smile and thought it was not only me type thoughts . Not sure if my post will help you But my early experiences were much the same as yours When first installed ubuntu ran it from the live disc and thought hey that works for me .I will install Then it started a bit like your tale of woe . I buggered about got all twisted up fiddled with packages grub and eventually stuffed up things pretty badly . So out came G parted and I wiped every partition except windows . Created some free cspace and resized . Closed down went to bed Next day (weekend ) started afresh Just installed largest contiguous space IIRC shut down rebooted and fiddled with pppoeconf to get connected started upgrade via update went and mowed the lawns Came back needed a reboot because teh machine said so :) Did that =sweet as a nut EXCEPT NO SOUND ! went to google 3 mins and found the fix ( it was not restricted packages by the way but an alsa fiddle (now back it appears in 9.10 but cant fix it) so reverted to earlier version sweet as a nut again . I am at a bit of a loss when trying to replicate your problems (using 9.10) on another machine (that I can use without fear of buggering it up) Then same thing happened Yikes I said he is right ------------ WRONG it was the upstream provider of our ISP that was having bottleneck problems both with telstra and singtel ? Next try at about 3 am No problem . Thus I fixed things but no idea how :) But reckon it may be some left over crud from early attempts Thus G parted and a nice clean install and try again may be the go ? > Sorry people, but despite your best efforts right now Ubuntu is just > for geeks. I can sense what you feel having thought exactly the same thing but the problem was my haste and lack of knowledge and no way am I even close to a geek And to be honest some of those geek types have really educated me in nice simple terms and 99.8% the error was my inability to stop thinking in windows terms and inputs . That said you see on a lot of the forums cryptic short hand that is Linux centric with some of the terminology Take me away from sudo and apt get then I am lost ---- in some of the chatter But I admire how helpful strangers are and so damned fast in replying with the try this or enter this string and send me x or y so we can have a look at it and help etc . If they are geeks thne they are bloody nice bunch and always in my experience able to get me out of the spot which increases my learning curve no end . > Being obstinate and because I enjoy learning to overcome these sort of > obstacles I am still going to keep trying, but there is no way I would > recommend Ubuntu to anyone as a Windows replacement. You know I have never thought of it (ubuntu) as a 100% windows replacement but a very powerful and at last easy to use adjunctive add on . Perhaps because work forces us to stay with MSOFT gear a fair bit. I must say my productivity and pleasure at 'puters is now far more enjoyable . But every now & then I wonder why do things like sound and soem graphics printers etc just work out of the box . A large part is the drivers but now not as much a pain as say a year ago EXCEPT LEXMARK which are just plain deaf to requests and useless Nvidia came up with a fix after a request and nwo is a blinder on a 24 inch screen (better than when in windows for some reason) Again not sure this post helps you but you are not alone when starting down the different path Not sure what part of the Country you are in but when all else fails a nip or two of moonshine and a sleep on the problem often fixes it Just wish at times what I did to come up with that fix :) However, I have ditched 9.10 and gone back to the version before and the systems are back to being bullet proof HTH Cheers Cheers > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
