Yea... I'm giving up on this... it (the install program) randomly crashes during the install / config, and doesn't see that I made a swap partition at all.
well I really like what I'm seeing here Commie, in fact I'm currently running off the live cd and installing it on another partition as I type this. I like how Mepis acctually comes with a few useful things already installed unlike Windows.
YAAAAY! After giving up on Mepis, I decided to try Ubuntu's brother Kubuntu, and now my system is fubar. Do all my partitioning and blah blah, get halfway through the install and it says it can't finish it. Ok. No big deal, I can just stop, and go back to windows, not that big of a deal I don't NEED to have it, it was just an idea... *reboot*......
Cannot boot operating system.
WTH? Apparently the installer didn't comprehend me when I told it NOT TO INSTALL ON MY ALREADY EXISTING WINDOWS INSTALL................. dot dot dot dot dot FRICKIN dot.
So yea I'm now having major problems with my windows install, namely the catalyst drivers are refusing to install.
*edit*
I should say, my windows REinstall.... more of an annoyance than anything since I just formatted this morning, and now I have to do it again.
um...that happend to me, you need to do a couple things
First, you need to go into bios, and set your HD detect mode to LBA (DO NOT PICK AUTO)
This will allow you to boot. Next, get to your Hard-disks manufacturer website, download the diagnostic tool, burn to CD or Use floppy. Next, run the full error checker it provides. After this, reformat, reinstall windows, after booting, reboot again, and set bios to Auto again. (What happens for some odd reason is ubuntu/kubuntu's failed installation messes up your disks geometry and is unable to read certain sectors/cylanders.
I've already formatted the system. Right now it's acting really freaking weird, and I'm about to format it again.
I can't install the catalyst drivers as I mentioned before. It just loads up a screen, with no 'click next blah blah' stuff..... nothing... its not that its minimized or anything, its just not there.
Second, the machine refuses to shut down or restart. Start > Shut down.......... Wow what a nice desktop I have... lets try that again... Start > Shut down... any week now.... yea....
Needless to say I'm not really a fan of Ubuntu anymore.
im a little wary of trying linux. i really have no idea what linux is. i would like to try some type of linux but im afraid i would screw something up.
<!--QuoteBegin-Shoebox+May 30 2005, 10:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shoebox @ May 30 2005, 10:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> i really have no idea what linux is. i would like to try some type of linux but im afraid i would screw something up. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> You don't know what it is, then you don't want to try it. Read up on it first, get a book or somthing. I got Linux For Dummies about 5 years back, hehehe <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-SillyGoose+May 30 2005, 09:50 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SillyGoose @ May 30 2005, 09:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> thats why you run it off the live cd dude, that way nothing actually gets installed but you get to try it out. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> well thats pretty damn neat.
Well I just wiped my sistem of Ubuntu and installed this and wow, it's awesome!
Instantly worked with my Broadcom Linksys 802.11G card, 3D setup was as easy as going into the control center and telling it to use ATI drivers... Which it downloaded and installed itself... My CD burner's working, my mouse/keyboard is working, everything but my God forsaken Alazia sound chip (integrated) is working.
One problem though... I... Uh... Have no window borders... I can't move windows, I can't resize windows, I can't minimize windows, and there's no taskbar-esque thing to switch between windows, so pretty much I've either got one thing or nothing open...
Though the no window border thing sucks, everything else is tizzight. Now to get my window border and sound... And I can finally watch the rest of One Piece!
EDIT: Oh yeah, that reminds me... My secondary SATA drive (that has my all my crap on a FAT32 filesystem) also worked instantly. Sweet.
I'm curious about the mention that it can read <i>and</i> write to NTFS. As I understood things, I thought NTFS's structure had been reverse-engineered far enough to be able to read from it, but that they weren't sure they could write to it yet without potentially messing things up.
Also, if any one Linux has this capability then all will soon enough.
Mmmmm sexy eyecandy <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> And the Superkaramba theme at the top not only works perfectly, I didn't have to change ANY code on it to get it to work (*grumbles at litestep*).
Honestly, if you're looking to replace Windows, just stop right now and go back to Windows.
There are native games, good ones at that, but the selection is slim. Id software ports all or at least most of their games, quite a few unreal engine games are on linux, And Tribes 2 is on it too.
If you want to use linux and learn about it, then that's fine. Gaming is doable on good systems via Cedega, but there are graphical bugs often enough.
I beleive there's an open source visual basic type language out there also, but if you're going to be programming in Linux you ought to learn C, Python, Ruby or somthing along the lines of that.
Gtk is really good, learn that, it's wonderfull for GUI type programs, and compatable with many languages.
And if you can handel programming, go with a better distro like Slackware, Debian or my personal favorite, Gentoo.
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Cannot boot operating system.
WTH? Apparently the installer didn't comprehend me when I told it NOT TO INSTALL ON MY ALREADY EXISTING WINDOWS INSTALL................. dot dot dot dot dot FRICKIN dot.
So yea I'm now having major problems with my windows install, namely the catalyst drivers are refusing to install.
*edit*
I should say, my windows REinstall.... more of an annoyance than anything since I just formatted this morning, and now I have to do it again.
First, you need to go into bios, and set your HD detect mode to LBA (DO NOT PICK AUTO)
This will allow you to boot. Next, get to your Hard-disks manufacturer website, download the diagnostic tool, burn to CD or Use floppy. Next, run the full error checker it provides. After this, reformat, reinstall windows, after booting, reboot again, and set bios to Auto again. (What happens for some odd reason is ubuntu/kubuntu's failed installation messes up your disks geometry and is unable to read certain sectors/cylanders.
I can't install the catalyst drivers as I mentioned before. It just loads up a screen, with no 'click next blah blah' stuff..... nothing... its not that its minimized or anything, its just not there.
Second, the machine refuses to shut down or restart. Start > Shut down.......... Wow what a nice desktop I have... lets try that again... Start > Shut down... any week now.... yea....
Needless to say I'm not really a fan of Ubuntu anymore.
You don't know what it is, then you don't want to try it. Read up on it first, get a book or somthing. I got Linux For Dummies about 5 years back, hehehe <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
well thats pretty damn neat.
Pros:
Easy. Quick. Little manual configuration.
Cons:
HOLY CRAP WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PROGRAMS THAT DO THE EXACT SAME THING.
Instantly worked with my Broadcom Linksys 802.11G card, 3D setup was as easy as going into the control center and telling it to use ATI drivers... Which it downloaded and installed itself... My CD burner's working, my mouse/keyboard is working, everything but my God forsaken Alazia sound chip (integrated) is working.
One problem though... I... Uh... Have no window borders... I can't move windows, I can't resize windows, I can't minimize windows, and there's no taskbar-esque thing to switch between windows, so pretty much I've either got one thing or nothing open...
Though the no window border thing sucks, everything else is tizzight. Now to get my window border and sound... And I can finally watch the rest of One Piece!
EDIT: Oh yeah, that reminds me... My secondary SATA drive (that has my all my crap on a FAT32 filesystem) also worked instantly. Sweet.
Also, if any one Linux has this capability then all will soon enough.
<img src='http://img238.echo.cx/img238/1616/snapshot14bu.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Mmmmm sexy eyecandy <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> And the Superkaramba theme at the top not only works perfectly, I didn't have to change ANY code on it to get it to work (*grumbles at litestep*).
There are native games, good ones at that, but the selection is slim. Id software ports all or at least most of their games, quite a few unreal engine games are on linux, And Tribes 2 is on it too.
If you want to use linux and learn about it, then that's fine. Gaming is doable on good systems via Cedega, but there are graphical bugs often enough.
I beleive there's an open source visual basic type language out there also, but if you're going to be programming in Linux you ought to learn C, Python, Ruby or somthing along the lines of that.
Gtk is really good, learn that, it's wonderfull for GUI type programs, and compatable with many languages.
And if you can handel programming, go with a better distro like Slackware, Debian or my personal favorite, Gentoo.