OpenSUSE (from Novell) still has the same bug! Not that it even offers to make USB drives, but for those in the need and the know, one of the things you need to do is comment out the ui line.
Cheers On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:48:21AM -0600, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Thanks, Alfredo. Be aware that there is a bug in Mint 9 which will prevent > you from using the Startup Disc Creator utility. From a pair of comments on > the article: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-mint-fail > > > The Mint Startup Disk Creater utility used to create bootable USB drives and > CD's does not work on either of my two Mint 9 systems. The USB images that > they create for the Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and netbook iso images fail to > boot, giving the message "Unrecognized keyword in configuration file". > > It's a known bug, the syslinux version doesn't recognize the 'ui' keyword in > syslinux.cfg . > If you remove it it works. This was a fix in the updates of 10.04, so maybe > mint is still going to get the fix. > > Aside from a few bugs like the one above, I've generally been happy with > Mint 9. > > --Doug > > 2010/10/12 Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[email protected]> > > > Douglas > > > > I posted part of this lines in your blog at Linux Journal. I enhance it a > > little. I just installed Linux Mint 9 in my EeePC 701 replacing ubuntu > > 10-04. I'm pretty satisfied with Isadora (All Mint releases have had women > > names). Last weekend I tried to install several distributions and it only > > was successful installation of Linux Mint and gNewSense. gNewSense is pure > > free software and because of this reason some controllers have been removed > > from his Debian Kernel. Some of them are wireless controllers and a netbook > > without wireless doesn't make sense. That was one of the reasons why I tried > > to install Linux Mint. Except for sd card, everything is working fine with > > Mint distro. I like the small size of packages installed by default. It > > allowed me to install Glade, Geany, Eclipse, JDK, BlueJ, Dia, Ruby, Valac, > > PHP and all related libraries associated to all of them and despite ( I made > > a mistake in this part in my linux journal post.. my English is bad enough) > > the tiny solid state disc, it still has space to install a database and > > maybe other program like Umbrello or ArgoUML. Linux Mint is by far the best > > of the four distros that my Asus has had. > > > > In other old pc, a desktop, I installed Salix. A distro based in Slackware. > > It's really nice and runs fine despite the limitations of hardware in that > > desktop. It was what I was looking for. I like all these new distros with > > environments developed using GTK libraries and are good to run in old > > hardware. That's fine. > > > > I'm developing a simulator using php-gtk. I don't know why but I like GTK > > and I like to think (without a real reason) that GTK libraries are the > > future of the software. > > > > Alfredo > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
