On Wednesday 05 October 2005 14:56, D Bhardwaj wrote: > I tried the kubuntu 5.10 preview. It hung shortly after starting. My > limited knowledge wasn't enough to figure out what it was complaining > about. I am searching through ubuntulinux.org FAQ to see what I can find. > You could post the error here. If it simply froze it is likely to be a bad CD.
> I am not familiar with rsync. A fancy copy command. Handy for remote copies (it can use ssh as a transport) as well as for mirroring a filesystem while keeping permissions intact. > Can I install mandrake on another machine and then somehow 'copy' it over? Yup. This would not work well for other (*cough*) OSs, but is fine with Linux. > But the h/w is all different? > As long as the kernel has the drivers for the hardware, the CPU is largely irrelevant. The install of kubuntu on my laptop used a kernel built for a 386, but with support for lots of hardware. Even though my processor was an AMD64, the 386 kernel booted fine. More important was the driver for the chipset, which controls I/O (things like the hard drive and CD-Rom drive). > Besides support, what is the difference between Enterprise and configuring > install based on selected packages? > Some times the enterprise variant is considered more stable, and might not have all the features of more recent versions. Having said that, the difference is largely in the marketing term and not really in the software itself. > Dharam > Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart16377854.p5dSAVPOYx"; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > --nextPart16377854.p5dSAVPOYx > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Tuesday 04 October 2005 16:04, D Bhardwaj wrote: > > General question on installs: > > I have new hardware and my install fails because it can't even recognize > > the cd-rom even though it starts reading the CD, gets to the next screen > > after USB detection and fails on cd detection? I switched to ubuntu for > > t= > > he > > > heck of it. It loads the os but doesn't recognize the nic or sound, maybe > > other devices I haven't checked yet. > > Try the kubuntu (http://kubuntu.org) breezy preview, I believe it has a > ver= y=20 > recent kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386) which has better support for hardware. > > Generally I check hardware with knoppix or another live CD (I had a > kubuntu= =20 > live CD with me when I bought my laptop) as long as it could see the > hard=20 drive I was pretty sure I could get the rest of the system running. > > > What is the general work around in this situation? > > You could also take the hard drive out of the new computer, put it in the > o= ld=20 > computer, rsync the old drive over to the new, and build a kernel that=20 > supports your hardware. USB enclosures are awesome for this sort of > task=20 (actually they are pretty handy to have around for a variety of > tasks). > > Hope this helps. > > > Dharam > > --nextPart16377854.p5dSAVPOYx--
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