Yikes! Well, I'm switching back to Ubuntu, going with the latest 10.10.
--Doug On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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