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On Friday 11 Nov 2011 22:02:40 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2011-11-11, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> ><SNIP> |
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> > |
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> >> Now to teach him how to update the thing. |
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> > |
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> > I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running |
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> > Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. |
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> I use Ubuntu occasionally, and it's always a teeth-gritting, |
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> hair-pulling experience. For me, it's the most non-intuitive distro |
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> I've ever used. And it is the "Ubuntu" part I can't grok, not the |
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> Debian part -- I never had any problems with Debian. I ran Debian on |
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> a server at home for years, and even created a Debian subset distro |
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> for a product many years back. |
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> |
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> > It wasn't that it was bad or didn't work, but that the management of |
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> > it seemed so different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't |
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> > want to deal with learning it. |
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> |
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> Exactly. Anytime you want to do something administrative, it's always |
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> an ordeal unless you can just skip the "Ubuntu" stuff and do the |
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> equivalent of editing /etc/network/interfaces (I never could get the |
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> GUI network config thingy to work). |
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> |
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> > Let's see how that does for you. |
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> > |
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> > Again, remembering I didn't really give it much of a chance - I was |
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> > running on a Power PC Mac Mini - two things that drove me mad were: |
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> > |
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> > 1) The basic install didn't tell me what the root password was. |
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> There isn't one by default. The first thing you do after an Ubuntu |
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> install is always set the root password: |
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> |
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> $ sudo bash |
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> # passwd |
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> The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all |
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> the kernel messages visible. |
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> |
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> Then you've got something that's almost tolerable. |
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How do you that?!!! |
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Pressing F2 or Esc on the Ubuntu GRUB2 splash just crashes the system. I |
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think I also tried editting the default GRUB2 file, but couldn't get it to be |
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more verbose. Is there some trick I'm missing? |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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