To Linux friends

[xfile]

I know I said good bye, but I just want Linux friends to know - I gave it a
chance by trying to download and install ubuntu.

But it won't start the installation.

The following is part of the endless error codes:

Error messages:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) [34.158610] ata2.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)

[continued..]


Please noted that I am using the same system with the same HDD for testing
Vista. It's a 3-year old desktop, nothing fancy and certainly is not an
outdated system.

To see if I have good DVD discs, I tried one with the free Infra Recorder
and another one with Nero. Neither disc would let me start installation.
It never started.

I think that's enough for me.

Like I said before, go back do your homework or it's not going to help
anyone including yourselves.

Just take it as a friendly feedback and I won't engage into a lengthy
debate.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I think that's enough for me.

Like I said before, go back do your homework or it's not going to help
anyone including yourselves.

Just take it as a friendly feedback and I won't engage into a lengthy
debate.

I suggest you get Suse Linux. The one I use is the paid for version
supported by Novell and has tech support help for Suse. There is a free
version of Suse.

There is also a NG for Suse at alt.os.linux.suse.

Suse installed on my old Dell Opti-plex desktop like a champ, which was
about 5 years old at the time.

 

[Dave Griffiths]

Boys boys all this testosterone over an operating system.

Like having different races of people in the world we can have different
operation systems, it's OK it's not dangerous. We can all live together
playing with whatever software rings our bell, myself I use Mac, Windows &
Linux so maybe I'm just sitting on the fence, but hey I get to have a good
look at others from up here.

So do we blame the Fin or the American for the worlds latest unrest.

 

[Frank]

Boys boys all this testosterone over an operating system.

Like having different races of people in the world we can have different
operation systems, it's OK it's not dangerous. We can all live together
playing with whatever software rings our bell, myself I use Mac, Windows
& Linux so maybe I'm just sitting on the fence, but hey I get to have a
good look at others from up here.

So do we blame the Fin or the American for the worlds latest unrest.

It's not my fault, I didn't do it! :-D
Frank

 

[Mike G]

I got a copy of Fedora "working", however I am trying to learn Linux and the
installation was quite difficult from the standpoint of first getting the
HDD not to boot to Windows, then making choices about the installation that
I had no idea of what was taking place. The terms had no meaning for me,
(thats why I am trying to learn Linux) but somehow after 2 hrs it "Works".
Have no idea of how to do simple things like add a printer etc.

 

[ray]

I know I said good bye, but I just want Linux friends to know - I gave it a
chance by trying to download and install ubuntu.

But it won't start the installation.

The following is part of the endless error codes:

Error messages:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) [34.158610] ata2.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)

[continued..]


Please noted that I am using the same system with the same HDD for testing
Vista. It's a 3-year old desktop, nothing fancy and certainly is not an
outdated system.

To see if I have good DVD discs, I tried one with the free Infra Recorder
and another one with Nero. Neither disc would let me start installation.
It never started.

I think that's enough for me.

Like I said before, go back do your homework or it's not going to help
anyone including yourselves.

Just take it as a friendly feedback and I won't engage into a lengthy
debate.

Afraid I can't help you. I've done 37 ubuntu installs in the last year or
so, and I've never seen anything like that.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Try Windows 98. It sorta works!

 

[Nina DiBoy]

I know I said good bye, but I just want Linux friends to know - I gave it a
chance by trying to download and install ubuntu.

But it won't start the installation.

The following is part of the endless error codes:

Error messages:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) [34.158610] ata2.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)

[continued..]


Please noted that I am using the same system with the same HDD for testing
Vista. It's a 3-year old desktop, nothing fancy and certainly is not an
outdated system.

To see if I have good DVD discs, I tried one with the free Infra Recorder
and another one with Nero. Neither disc would let me start installation.
It never started.

I think that's enough for me.

Like I said before, go back do your homework or it's not going to help
anyone including yourselves.

Just take it as a friendly feedback and I won't engage into a lengthy
debate.

Hi xfile, and welcome back!


--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"It would be nice if there was a check to see if you were running an
activated/validated version of Windows before you were allowed to post
in any of these news groups. If you're not activated/validated your post
automatically gets deleted.
That would get rid of the Linsux Luzzzzzzzzers once and for all."

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot

 

[Nina DiBoy]

I got a copy of Fedora "working", however I am trying to learn Linux and the
installation was quite difficult from the standpoint of first getting the
HDD not to boot to Windows, then making choices about the installation that
I had no idea of what was taking place. The terms had no meaning for me,
(thats why I am trying to learn Linux) but somehow after 2 hrs it "Works".
Have no idea of how to do simple things like add a printer etc.

Fedora is my favorite flavor!

To add a printer, research CUPS.


--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"It would be nice if there was a check to see if you were running an
activated/validated version of Windows before you were allowed to post
in any of these news groups. If you're not activated/validated your post
automatically gets deleted.
That would get rid of the Linsux Luzzzzzzzzers once and for all."

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot

 

[Lang Murphy]

I know I said good bye, but I just want Linux friends to know - I gave it a
chance by trying to download and install ubuntu.

But it won't start the installation.

The following is part of the endless error codes:

Error messages:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) [34.158610] ata2.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)

[continued..]


Please noted that I am using the same system with the same HDD for testing
Vista. It's a 3-year old desktop, nothing fancy and certainly is not an
outdated system.

To see if I have good DVD discs, I tried one with the free Infra Recorder
and another one with Nero. Neither disc would let me start installation.
It never started.

I think that's enough for me.

Like I said before, go back do your homework or it's not going to help
anyone including yourselves.

Just take it as a friendly feedback and I won't engage into a lengthy
debate.

Not surprising that you get more responses from the nixers in this ng than
you would from the same people in a nix ng.

And... can't help you on the install problem. Ubuntu installed here on one
laptop and two VM's without issue. (I anticipate replies stating that I'm a
dope because it worked here, so I must think there's something wrong with
you.)

What's next? Questions about GarageBand?

Lang

 

[Leythos]

Fedora is my favorite flavor!

To add a printer, research CUPS.

Dual Booting any OS's is always a pain, and I suggest that people don't
do it. Hard drives are cheap, and it's easy to enable/disable them, or
just remove the power connector.

As for Linux - Fedora is the best distro I've run, and I've tested and
used quite a few. Fedora has the most included, actually working,
packages that any business and home user could need.

--
Leythos
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling
a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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[DP]

Dual Booting any OS's is always a pain, and I suggest that people don't
do it. Hard drives are cheap, and it's easy to enable/disable them, or
just remove the power connector.

Your response set me to wondering: Does anybody make some kind of EXTERNAL
switch that lets you DISable one INTERNAL hard drive and ENable another?
Kind of a high-class A/B switch.

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

Your response set me to wondering: Does anybody make some kind of EXTERNAL
switch that lets you DISable one INTERNAL hard drive and ENable another?
Kind of a high-class A/B switch.

Here's an option, drive trays ...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=285

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[XS11E]

I know I said good bye, but I just want Linux friends to know - I
gave it a chance by trying to download and install ubuntu.

Sorry to continue the off topic but.... There's a VERY good support
group on Steve Gibson's news server.

Go to http://www.grc.com/discussions.htm and learn how to set up your
news reader to get the news groups, then look for techtalk.linux, the
people there can help you and there are a bunch of Ubuntu users there.

Hope this helps.

 

[XS11E]

Your response set me to wondering: Does anybody make some kind of
EXTERNAL switch that lets you DISable one INTERNAL hard drive and
ENable another? Kind of a high-class A/B switch.

I investigated this some time back and couldn't find anything. My solution was to purchase one of the many removable HD kits with an extra drawer. With my computer turned off, I could easily remove one HD and install the other, then turn the computer back on and reboot onto the other HD.

Here's an example of what I mean:

http://www.compusa.com/products/pro...emovable_Drive_Drawer_with_Shock_Absorbers#ts

Or: http://tinyurl.com/ywvj72

 

[DP]

Thanks, to you and Ms. Day. Not as good an idea as an A/B type switch, but
it gets the job done.

 

[Dave Griffiths]

Happy to say not this linux user, I would still be able to post here as I am
fully paid up member of the M$ Tax system.

 

[Dave Griffiths]

Mike
If your using Fedora, most of the printers drivers come with the
installation. To install a new printer.
Click on the desktop menu item at the top of the screen
Administration / Printing. Then enter you r root password ( You should not
be logged in as root)
Click the New Icon -> Forward
Enter the Display name for the print queue, default is printer, call it
anything you like.
If your printer is locally connected it should show in the window, Select it
and click forward.
Where it says "Generic" you can use the drop down to select your
manuafacturer. Then choose your model in the window. Click forward then
finish

Hope this helps

 

[PeeGee]

Thanks, to you and Ms. Day. Not as good an idea as an A/B type switch,
but it gets the job done.

.... and prevents accidental switching while a system is running

PeeGee
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