Hi I'm switching to mepis from ubuntu, I am trying to install it but when I click alt-ctrl-f7 to load login screen it proceeds to but then it just stays on the blinking little white line on the top left of the screen and the login screen never loads. Is there a way around this, or is there a manual to install it text based?

Thanks guys

anyone? please?

after the first screen theres a process in black screen...

and the very first line says error something like PCI: Failed to allocate mem source

Try posting on here:

http://mepislovers.org/forums/

From a more recent thread you started: So how did you do it? What was the problem?

Please don't abandon this thread, your experience may help someone else.

Also, given the global nature of LQ, you need to be patient & wait at least 24 (preferably 48) hours for a reply. You 2nd & 3rd posts were counterproductive because they took this thread off the "0-reply" list prematurely.

Why not http://www.mepis.org/forum ? It is the official forum after all. Seriously, we are the largest general Linux site on the web, we have a great number of informed and intelligent posters here with a wealth of experience. Please do not offer an off-site forum as the only answer to a problem - it helps no one.

XavierP,
I take your point about recommending another off-site forum.
I was merely trying to be be helpful and direct the OP to a suitable place for further specialist Mepis help since he had received no LQ replies at the time I made my reply.

Why not http://www.mepis.org/forum ?

Because that link was archived on the 1st November 2007.

http://mepislovers.org/forums/ is the correct link for the Mepis (Lovers) Forums.

Meh, not so much. That forum has been read only for the best part of a year.Yeah, true...but not much experience specific to Mepis. It IS different than any other distro, on a number of levels. I really don't think it's inappropriate to point someone to help...Except maybe the user?
I note with amusement the lack of "informed and intelligent" replies to the OP's problem...

No text based installer! However, with a little hardware info, you can probably get it up and running..
Can you post the output of ?
From your description, I suspect a video driver issue. You might also try booting into one of the alternate video modes on the boot-time grub menu.

OP's profile (pretty much empty except for the Statistics tab), threads, & posts.

From his/her 3rd thread: I'm guessing that there is little point in asking the follow up Q's, as OP found a solution & moved on. Furthermore, OP seems to not yet understand the LQ idea of recording the solution for others who may have the same problem -- did not respond to my post #5 above.


Is there an actual rule or policy, or is this just a custom? I don't disagree, I just wonder what I might have missed.


Definitely different; but I think there is plenty of MEPIS-specific experience here at LQ: myself, masinick, SilverBear, to name 3. AFAIK, we all use MEPIS as our primary distro. Because of the far larger membership here, many Q's that are not unique to MEPIS may get quicker, even better, answers. Granted, there is always the danger of unknowing bad advice from otherwise knowledgable folks who are unfamiliar w/ the unique differences in MEPIS, but those of us who use regularly (or exclusively) it are here to help catch & correct those.

Check out the quality of OP's posts, both the original Q's & the answers to folks trying to help. I think the lack you point out is OP's fault.

Not a custom or a rule - just politeness. We don't recommend going to other forums and telling people to come here. Linking to an offsite answer is fine, but a blanket "go to x forums" looks like hijacking members (not the exact word I was looking for, but when I'm tired my vocabulary shrinks!) and diverting them to other sites.

Thanks, you've put into words what my gut told me about it being uncool behavior.

BTW, I rather like the phrase "hijacking members".

That or "kidnapping"

My gut feeling tells me it's territorial behaviour.

Thanks for your support handydan.

If the idea is to help people, then a link to a more relevant forum is appropriate.

I personally stopped reading mepislovers.org because I don't have time for both and I prefer LQ, but also because it has been so long since I did a Mepis install that I've forgotten most of what would be helpful to a Mepis beginner.

LQ is a great forum for Mepis questions. If the OP had given a bit more info about his problem and no one else solved it first, I probably could/would have solved it here.

But a post at MepisLovers is still more likely (than a post at LQ) to be seen by some expert who remembers enough about the Mepis install and/or has seen enough poorly written requests for help from Mepis beginners to guess the underlying issue.

So I think a link to MepisLovers is helpful when the problem is so clearly a Mepis beginner issue (as opposed to a Linux beginner issue). As for it being the "only answer", no one tried to close the thread after that answer. If it is the best answer beachboy2 knew, then he should be able to post it.

I'm a bit surprised at the fight over this. I answer a lot of questions in two different sets of remote control forums (remotecentral and hifi-remote). I often suggest in one of those places that the other is better for the specific question that was asked. I don't recall anyone ever having an issue with that.