i need a distro!!!
i have installed mandriva and i have tried to do ubuntu on 3 occasions with no success. i just didnt like the faxt that i couldnt find a 'file manager' in mandriva made me uninstall it. first ubuntu try i got a invalid video card ( brand new dell with nvidia 7300le card, i aint a vidiot but this card works under windows, 2nd ubuntu try was same - bad vid card...i can operate in live mode but cant install. the last time bugs me. i went and made the new disk 6.06 burned it and loaded it including a linux repartition. this time networking would not come up no matter what i did, so i resized the windows partition and formatted the drive...now WHICH distro really does work, with mostly a gui, and minimun of terminal commands. i want ubuntu but i aint gonna queer my hard drive every time i want to load it, help and tkz
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Hi, i have a dell Dimension E520 with NVIDIA 7300 LE 256 mb video card... i have run both ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 on it with almost no problems, never problems with the video card, other than once when i installed the drivers wrong, not that it wasn't detected or anything... i recommend the latter... ubuntu 7.04... it works with my system, very graphical for setup and simple so if i were you i'd try it. Good luck, and be as patient as possible...
furthermore his a link where you can download ubuntu 7.04 32bit standard desktop edition, assuming you dont want to have the 64 bit trouble, as i prefer (not to have the 64 bit trouble ) :) http://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/ubuntu-cd/feist...sktop-i386.iso |
Driver setup shouldn't be that bad, and with ubuntu it should be easiest to install any missing drivers. Just look around and learn to use google.
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I'd try to burn a 7.04 Live CD, and run it. See if you can surf the internet. If you can, then it should configure properly when you install. Having problems with the graphical installer, is not an incredibly uncommon thing, thats why they offer the Alternate Install CD. For me, the problem is Dual monitors, it always chokes a Live CD. I also second mitchellman's suggestion to stay with the i386 distro, and don't mess with the 64bit right now. IGF |
PCLinuxOS
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/dist...glish/preview/ ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/distr...glish/preview/ This is the distro I use and recommend, Why because it works right out of the box. No need to configure Everything, everything just works. It also comes as a 1 CD install that is a live CD that you can install later if you wish. Mephis http://www.mepis.org/ |
ubuntu 6.06
the d/l site had 6.06 and a guarantee thru 2009, 7.04 seemed to be like a beta version and was only offered support for 1 year, thats why i went with 6.06 thinking it was more stable than the new one...but i'll burn a ver 7 disc and see , tkz for the advice!!!
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What happens is, there is a new version out quite frequently. When the old one expires, you get the newer one. The LTS release is mainly for business users who want to buy a support contract. After install, you would have a lengthy upgrade ahead of you. The main reason for getting the latest version, is to support newer hardware... out of the box. You could have got dapper installed, in text mode, then obtained the driver, but you are better off with feisty (7.04)... really. This is the thing with open source... pre-alpha is unstable, but useable... mostly (Enlightenment Desktop Shell). Alpha is quite good... good enough for a Windows 1.0 release anyway (The ATAPI dev stuff in cdrecord)... While beta is a commercial release (re. Firefox 0.9x). By the time 1.0 comes around, things are pretty peachy. (Note... examples are off the top of my head and people will disagree.) A Linux distro will be a mixture from all camps. However, there is discernment... Beryl is too unstable to be a defaelt, but Compiz (Beryl's parent) is fine... but Sabayon uses Beryl as standard. (Ubuntu folk like to use beryl on the desktop anyway.) Enlightenment is self-proclaimed "pre alpha" but is the standard for YellowDog (think: PS3). Debian actually has a release called "unstable", which is the recommended version. Welcome to a new and more dynamic world. |
The link i gave you earlier is to Ubuntu 7.04 live cd 32bit, probably what you want... BTW i use Beryl :) it's cool, and not so glitchy, just add toolkits to java, and it's all good :)
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I sent for x86_64 versions of Ubuntu 7.04 (1 CD), Suse 10.2 (6 CDs), and Fedora Core 6 (6 CDs). I tried them all yesterday. Ubuntu produced nothing on my monitor except signal-out-of-range messages. Suse couldn't make the type of my swap partition 82, and I couldn't get past that point in the install process. FC6 worked, and I'm using it now.
I see that several of you have pointed out that Ubuntu has a text-install CD, but I only had the one disk to try. |
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I agree 100% IGF |
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While fedora is no longer my first choice, I have found that it tends to install where all others fail. Some vital fedora links... www.fedorafaq.org www.mjmwired.net |
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But, if you are happy with fedora... stay with it. I'd suggest waiting for FC8 for the next upgrade. |
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Just my opinion of course, YMMV. IGF |
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