Anyone running Meerkat?

linus72 · 07-20-2010, 07:09 AM

Just was wonderin if anyone was running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on their PC/lappy?

It seems pretty stable to me and is very similar to Lucid.
I was just wanting opinions, etc on any issues or any comments about
your experiences with it?
I did notice it said it wont run on anything below a i686...
thx

beautiful fluxbox pic

yooy · 07-21-2010, 08:18 PM

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I did notice it said it wont run on anything below a i686...

if that means for all tommorrows xbuntu as well, i'm out

linus72 · 07-22-2010, 07:14 AM

well, it seems their dropping i486 support but I think you could still compile your own custom kernel and it seems its mostly about compiz, etc too

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i686 Default Compile - Ubuntu will be switching to compiling code to target i686 instead of the old i486 machine instructions. There's hardly any computer nowadays that don't at least support i686 level instructions anyway. Those that don't are more than likely unable to handle features like desktop effects. Even a desktop without Compiz enabled may be beyond these older computers unless extensive tweaking is done to minimise system memory footprints. Usually that means removing a lot of useful modern functionality. It's hard and a little sad, but it's high time some really old hardware are finally abandoned.

all distro's will probably be doing the same...

yooy; you could check out the Maverick builds I made and see if it works?
http://multidistro.com/NFLUXNEW/SQ4/ubuntu2.html

tommcd · 07-22-2010, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by yooy

if that means for all tommorrows xbuntu as well, i'm out

You may want to check out Lubuntu: http://lubuntu.net/
Or better yet, move on over to Slackware!

yooy · 07-22-2010, 02:12 PM

@linus
i tried to dl version from your link, but it didn't complete to download, strange,besides firefox don't have resume option.
edit:it downloaded with download manager, maybe my wifi link is bad

linus72 · 07-22-2010, 02:36 PM

I haven't a clue yooy why it didnt finish downloading
I have alot of bandwidth....

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will try again.. if unetbooting version is not ok.

what do you mean?
Unetbootin?

yooy · 07-22-2010, 06:51 PM

(check my last message "edit" for more info)
Hi
great OS!

I successfully booted from my usb (iso installed with unetbooting) that is now equipped with latest Meerkat from your link..
hardware:celeron M

-I entered unetbooting menu where "boot the live sistem" worked. default seem to had troubles. (im pretty new to unetbooting and linux.)

-During boot i got fatal error message when starting "toshiba hotkeys utils"

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Fatal error:could not open proc/acpi/toshiba..

(part of that message was quickly covered with login window. I have no Toshiba lappy.

-I wanted to install some programs (this usb-unetbootin mode probably wont allow this?) but Synaptic search box didn't seem to be accesible (no text adn cursor was visible)
..i would like to try to install some apps into it when i come to some easier networking situation, so i can connect.
-Wicd gave bad password,others similar.. im using nm-applet fine..with WEP 40/128bit, OPEN, infrastructure,zydas client

-There was some small glitch when x sign of 2 windows was floating somewhere on right.(possibly due to my lappy overheating)

Kenny_Strawn · 07-22-2010, 08:01 PM

I am surprised (and joyed) to see another Meerkat user on LQ!

Please note that this is pre-release software, but it has been pretty stable for me.

There have been some nice features added, including BTRFS support in the installer, GNOME 2.31 (will become 3.0 on final release), and many other things.

For more information:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat

linus72 · 07-22-2010, 08:16 PM

Hello yooy;
thanks for trying it...

Now, as for Unetbootin, it doesn't really install it to usb as it should...
Use Ubuntu's usb-creator and I also included usb-creator.exe on the iso

however, you can install it to usb, with persistency very easily

1) use the app "isomaster" to extract iso to a folder somewhere on hdd

2) rename isolinux folder to syslinux
rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg

3) in ubuntu/debian, open a terminal and become root with "sudo su"

4) you must do this from installed system or cd, as usb will be read-only if booting from usb.
after becoming root, mount the usb with the ubuntu cd extracted to it(already is yes?)

5) cd into usb and execute these commands
assuming usb is /dev/sdb1, mounted as either /media/usb0 or /media/disk

Code:

cd /media/disk
or
cd /media/usb0

dd if=/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=128

the above command will make a persistent file of 128MB in size
so, change count= to whatever size you want, 2GB max I think...

6) format the casper-rw file

Code:

mkfs.ext3 casper-rw

see here for more info, as you can also make a partition on usb labeled "casper-rw", of whatever size, and it must be ext3
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence

now, ubuntu you can't really upgrade the kernel, etc in persistent mode...
you must remaster the cd, and you can as it has remastersys

it must be installed to hdd to remaster.

anyway, theres also the official Maverick Meerkat daily build here
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

and you can keep that iso up-to-date without having to download new iso's using "zsync"
http://ansi.interblc.com/2010/02/06/...2-with-ubuntu/

very cool

EDIT
Note that my iso can also boot from iso off hdd, usb
if using grub2,

yooy · 07-25-2010, 01:32 PM

Well thanks, i will try if i figure out the 40/128-bit WEP Key puzzle with network managers that won't connects as nm-applet

Same Merkaat successfully booted on P4.

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Error inserting ramzswap (/lib/modules/2.6.35-9-generic/kernel/drivers ... (i didn't take picture of all text)) /ramzswap/ramzswap.ko) Unknown symbol in module, or unknow parameter (see dmesg)