Ubuntu (was Re: [vox] Re: [vox-announce] Reminder: LUGOD meeting tomorrow!)

[Jonathan Stickel]

Rod Roark wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:56 am, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>>I tried out Ubuntu on an older system over the weekend, and I was rather 
>>disappointed.  The install seemed to go OK, but after rebooting it never 
>>got past Grub.  I tried booting the live CD to see if I could fix grub 
>>manually, and that failed with a kernel panic IIRC.  In the end I 
>>installed Fedora instead.
>>
>>Yet another Debian based distribution has failed to impress me.
> 
> 
> That surprises me.  I've installed Ubuntu on 8 different
> machines (some old, some new including 2 notebooks) in the
> past month or so, and all went flawlessly.
> 

OK, maybe I was just unlucky.  I know the machine I was working with has 
a temperamental cdrom drive, so perhaps that led to the problems.  Maybe 
I'll see it go better at an installfest.

Jonathan