On 2004.12.03 09:44, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:25:36PM +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
I tried Ubuntu recently well, just part of the install really as it never completed. It was the latest version and having got as far as installing the base system packages it then failed on installing > the kernel packages with some dependencies problems and wouldn't go any further. I tried twice with the same result :-(
Are you certain you have a working set of CD-Roms? (i.e. non-faulty?)
There was only 1 CD and I am reasonably certain of it's validity. I checked the downloaded iso image with MD5sum and there were no errors. I verified the CD after writing and that was OK.
or that you didn't download a beta version of the next release?
No it's 'warty-release-install-i386.iso'.
I have certainly installed it on 4 machines here (2 of them weird and wonderful laptops) There are certainly many many people running it out there, so it would seem unlikely that it was a problem with the distro unless you have some weird and wonderful hardware (tell us more about it so we can help?).
I'm not sure about weird and wonderful! All the following distributions are installed and working:
Debian Sarge - my normal operating system. All the others are for playing/curiosity :-)
Fedora Gentoo Mandrake Slackware
And a Knoppix 3.6 CD runs without problems.
The mainboard is a Tyan S2462 Thunder K7 with 2 CPUs of about 1.3GHz. There is 1 main IDE hard drive of 250 GB and 1 small SCSI drive used now only for odds and ends.
There's nothing else which isn't fairly standard (I think).
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain