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051220 Martin S wrote: |
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> I must confess. I've been unfaithful For a day. |
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> After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time |
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> by uncarefully upgrading I decided to try something less brain taxing. |
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> So I reinstalled with Kubuntu. |
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Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is. |
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A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine, |
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which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed |
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& is too slow & infrequently used to install Gentoo. |
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The latest Mandrake 2006 CD 1 refused to boot, so I had to make a diskette, |
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then the installer couldn't figure out my 2001 graphics card, |
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then finally when I tried to boot the installed system |
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all I got was a lot of colored lines across the screen. |
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"How about Kubuntu?" -- I don't like Gnome, so didn't want Ubuntu -- , |
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so I got the CD, installed & booted the system. First, |
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I wanted to set up ADSL, but the window fell off the bottom of the screen |
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& I couldn't see the "sysadmin privileges" button hidden down there; |
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when I tried to get sysprivs via CLI, it refused to recognise the password: |
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(K)ubuntu has a mickey-mouse simplification which abolishes root |
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& does everything with the user's own password, |
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but of course the tiny handful of Kubuntu developers have screwed it up. |
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The 2001 graphics card has a bug which prevents text showing on screen |
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before X is started, so I couldn't install Slackware. |
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Finally, I managed to get Mandrake 2005 = 10.2 from their mirrors |
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& got it installed, tho' I had to use the diskette again to start installing. |
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> I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ... |
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> I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses. |
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Exactly ! Back up often, try to understand what you're doing, incl ~x86, |
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but if you do wreck your system, the best bet by far is re-installing Gentoo. |
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And let's tell the devs how much we appreciate their donated time. |
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