What the best distribution for a N00B? to learn? - Page 2

PangingJr · Mar 25, 2006, 07:35 AM

lol, don't give up man. maybe try loading BIOS default. normally don't see any problem while installaing Linux, FreeBSD or even Solaris.
but you use many different hardwares than mines, and has no experience on the problem either, so can't help. maybe try downloading other distros.

RIV@NVX · Mar 25, 2006, 11:35 AM

If your HW is so new, then 6.04 might be a better choice, but be warned - it's still not even close to final.

Pottsy306 · Mar 25, 2006, 12:38 PM

i like 6.04 - it needs work, ive had numerous errors. The flight 5 disc is also outdated quite abit, with over 120+mb of updates :s

i gotta say though, i never like FC, but FC5 is pretty damn sweet. If only it had apt-get, then....not that yum isnt as good, but i just dont like different repos files, it gets muddled. And apt-get dist-upgrade just ownz

RIV@NVX · Mar 25, 2006, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Pottsy306

i like 6.04 - it needs work, ive had numerous errors. The flight 5 disc is also outdated quite abit, with over 120+mb of updates :s

That's normal with a dev version

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i gotta say though, i never like FC, but FC5 is pretty damn sweet. If only it had apt-get, then....not that yum isnt as good, but i just dont like different repos files, it gets muddled. And apt-get dist-upgrade just ownz

I agree; I'm using it on my laptop ATM and it's really sweet if you are GNOME person... (If you are a KDE person, then SUSE is muuuch better.)
Nothing beats apt, but new yum is really usable, I must admit. It's also much improved in terms of speed compared to 2.4, at least from what I have seen so far. I need to try it on something bigger like full update to be completely sure, but so far it seems improved.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 25, 2006, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by PangingJr

lol, don't give up man. maybe try loading BIOS default. normally don't see any problem while installaing Linux, FreeBSD or even Solaris.
but you use many different hardwares than mines, and has no experience on the problem either, so can't help. maybe try downloading other distros.

hmm xcould it be I have plug and play OS enabled?
Vs disabled an the bios sets te IRQ's

Should I be useing the AMD X64 Version? or should I
use the regular i386 Version?

PangingJr · Mar 25, 2006, 06:01 PM

i don't know this before, it's about the ATi chipset board and Ubuntu installation problem.

you may want to check this...
Ubuntu freezes during installation.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135270

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 25, 2006, 06:33 PM

Here is what happens with 5.10

Froze there... the red ius the flash through my finger, the shots collor red by my blood
freeky...

here is what happens with 6.04

froze there, though i can typwhat ever I want on the screen, LOL
I messed with my GF typed a buch of strage messages lol' had her look lol'

PangingJr · Mar 26, 2006, 03:16 AM

Neon, don't know how to help you. if you could download SUSE Linux 10.0 fast, try it. iits hardwares detection might work with your system on first install.

RIV@NVX · Mar 26, 2006, 08:03 AM

Also, if your bandwidth isn't a problem, I suggest to try FC5 too.

Pottsy306 · Mar 26, 2006, 11:58 AM

Argh!!! I had FC5 running fine, but i didnt have my wireless router - so i had no need to try and use ndiswrapper. Finally got my wifi router back, and tried adding ndiswrapper support - only to my disapointment the fedora kernel still uses 4k stack size, and the wifi drivers require atleast 12k. So i try to compile the kernel to support 16k stack, or try to patch it in, however i found very little support on the fedora forums. Which is why i ubuntu - excellent forums and community.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 27, 2006, 02:38 PM

Well this over all sucks............ I'll probubly put this all off for now ..

PangingJr · Mar 27, 2006, 11:27 PM

if you still want to look into Linux so you can see if you'll want to use it or not, maybe wait for a newer build and see if it comes out to work on your hardwares, better than this. or maybe get a low cost computer to use it as for studying Linuxes.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 28, 2006, 12:18 AM

yea it suucjk I can't get it t run on my rig ...mabe when 6X come out of beta I'll have better luck

PangingJr · Mar 28, 2006, 01:41 AM

Mandriva 2006.x has also been good to new hardwares (but your hardwares are so new and i'm not sure about AMD64-based computer).
the download (free) versions of the Mandriva may have less softwares than Fedora Cores' or SUSE, but still plenty.
or just wait and occasionally check the Ubuntu forums, and try again after some more users have successfully installed it...

UberLord · Mar 28, 2006, 06:01 AM

If you're stuggling to boot a LiveCD, then why not try a Gentoo one? With ours you can enable/disable nearly every boot option that can cause trouble

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
Just click on your arch (probably amd64 or x86) and choose the Minimal CD, burn it, boot it. If you get to the prompt, you can install!

WARNING: Gentoo is not that noob friendly - you have to know some commands, but our handbook teaches you all that.