On 23 June 2015 at 09:56, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/06/15 08:29, Stuart Ward wrote: > >> Wednesday evenings it is open to the public. >> > > Yesterday, I collected a computer from someone the local Freecycle group. > It had no power supply or hard drive, but otherwise is OK. I rigged it up > with an old spare power supply and it booted from a DVD. Torios is > fantastic - but why doesn't the first screen tell you that you'll almost > certainly have to use the nomodeset parameter with any older gear? This > computer is an old Sony - Pentium 4 a700 MHz and 256 Mb. But I have had to > use nomodeset on a far newer and faster box that I've been running 14.04 on > .... > > I'd have thought that on something like Torios, this would have been a > 'must have' with an extra option to boot with nomodeset and a little notice > about why ... > > But yes - Torios is really good. Strange that the Torios terminal doesn't > recognise lshw though. Any idea why this might be? > > Probably because it's a minimal install and the expectation could be that you don't need it for a desktop system. I find in my day job that their provisioning varies on servers, and 99% of ours are CentOS. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
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