When it goes wrong [modified]
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I've never known a hell quite like installing Linux. From the wireless keyboard not being recognized during the installation, (requiring me to pop out to purchase a wired one), to the screens being twice the size of the TV (no scrollbars), to it sticking in "Live" mode, thrashing the CD forever, to the actual install having write access errors, to the NIC somehow not appearing, that's 6 hours I want back. I was correct: Gusty Gibbon is a monkey with gas. It certainly isn't my choice of OS. Anyone have a "Yay" for YBL? (Yellow Box Linux) -- modified at 8:44 Wednesday 24th October, 2007
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
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I've never known a hell quite like installing Linux. From the wireless keyboard not being recognized during the installation, (requiring me to pop out to purchase a wired one), to the screens being twice the size of the TV (no scrollbars), to it sticking in "Live" mode, thrashing the CD forever, to the actual install having write access errors, to the NIC somehow not appearing, that's 6 hours I want back. I was correct: Gusty Gibbon is a monkey with gas. It certainly isn't my choice of OS. Anyone have a "Yay" for YBL? (Yellow Box Linux) -- modified at 8:44 Wednesday 24th October, 2007
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
YBL? Googling only returned "Young Business Leaders", "Young Baseball League", "Your Bike Life", nothing, I'm guessing, to do with linux install issues :)
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YBL? Googling only returned "Young Business Leaders", "Young Baseball League", "Your Bike Life", nothing, I'm guessing, to do with linux install issues :)
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Yellow Box Linux.
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
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I've never known a hell quite like installing Linux. From the wireless keyboard not being recognized during the installation, (requiring me to pop out to purchase a wired one), to the screens being twice the size of the TV (no scrollbars), to it sticking in "Live" mode, thrashing the CD forever, to the actual install having write access errors, to the NIC somehow not appearing, that's 6 hours I want back. I was correct: Gusty Gibbon is a monkey with gas. It certainly isn't my choice of OS. Anyone have a "Yay" for YBL? (Yellow Box Linux) -- modified at 8:44 Wednesday 24th October, 2007
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
I can understand the keyboard problem but it sounds like a bum kernel version. If you want a 'live cd' go with Slax[^] other wise I guess the Ubuntu[^] will work as a fully installed version.
God Bless, Jason
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I've never known a hell quite like installing Linux. From the wireless keyboard not being recognized during the installation, (requiring me to pop out to purchase a wired one), to the screens being twice the size of the TV (no scrollbars), to it sticking in "Live" mode, thrashing the CD forever, to the actual install having write access errors, to the NIC somehow not appearing, that's 6 hours I want back. I was correct: Gusty Gibbon is a monkey with gas. It certainly isn't my choice of OS. Anyone have a "Yay" for YBL? (Yellow Box Linux) -- modified at 8:44 Wednesday 24th October, 2007
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
Richard Jones wrote:
I've never known a hell quite like installing Linux.
Installing Linux is easy when it works, and torturous when it doesn't. As Linux grows complex enough to handle the infamous "I handle all devices" type OS problem, they are finding it is more and more like Windows in complexity, because that is exactly why Windows was complex. I've just repaired my Linux multi-boot at home, so I have Windows XP and Linux. We run Fedora at work, so I am familiar enough with the problems of Fedora to fix some of them.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Richard Jones wrote:
I've never known a hell quite like installing Linux.
Installing Linux is easy when it works, and torturous when it doesn't. As Linux grows complex enough to handle the infamous "I handle all devices" type OS problem, they are finding it is more and more like Windows in complexity, because that is exactly why Windows was complex. I've just repaired my Linux multi-boot at home, so I have Windows XP and Linux. We run Fedora at work, so I am familiar enough with the problems of Fedora to fix some of them.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)