Well...I finally found a new hard for the IBM ThinkPad laptop I was given from someone at work. I got the hard drive installed and it is awesome...20GB of silent running sweetness.
Then I said... great now I can finally have a portable Linux system to show off to all my friends (both of them) adn wear my penguin colors proudly. So I grabbed an Ubuntu disk I had sitting around (6.06); booted the system up and the Live CD worked like a dream. I clicked the install icon on the desktop and in less than an hour a working Linux box. Now I thought...hey...I have some time why don;t I try and up grade to 7.04 instead of ordering a disk and waiting for it. So I downloaded the iso overnight and burned a copy. Put the disk in the drive and booted up. It comes to the proper screen but when I try and select any of the options it looks like it is loading the Linux Kernal but stops and hangs at 3%. I thought...no problem I will try and install using the system tools, except that I am not sure if I am going about this the right way. I found synaptic package manger and added the cd-rom as a repository and added other repositories as well. It looks like it might be downloading something but i get a bunch of sources and packages that say hit or failed or done. I assume the done ones mean those worked, but the other things I am not sure. Does the failed mean that it can't find that repository or it failed in downloading the package? Or something else completely? Also, when this all finishes...how can I tell if I am running 7.04? If worse comes to worse I can always blow the drive away and start from scratch with the 7.04 disk (assuming that it works), but I wold like to learb the upgrading process as well. On a similar note...I was able to get some components and am building a system for a friend at work. She is an overall tech nube and has troubles with some of the basics even on windows. I told her if the syste i am building had a windows key on I would load it for her because it is what she is familiar with, but if not I would try a linux distro. It is for hoem and she would only really be using internet, office & possibley graphics and maybe eventually editing webpages. I was just going to load a bunch of open source tools on a wndows box but I can't see a key so I it looks like it might be linux. So now... what distro? Ubuntu? I have heard mint is good (basically ubunutu with media support?). Any other suggestions? She is mostly use to the WinXP box at work with Office 2003 and similar so I would like to find something that would be a smooth transition for her. Any ideas welcome. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
