Text 69890, 56 rader
Skriven 2013-02-13 10:26:00 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
  Kommentar till text 69886 av Jean Parrot (3:640/384)
Ärende: Ubuntu.
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Hi! Jean,

On Wed, 13 Feb 13, you wrote to me:

 JP> 	What a struggle ! Finally, U'u is running here. I must be up to
 JP> attempt #15.

Well done!  I started my attempts with U'u on various PCs back in 2006.  (Back
in the days when CDs could be ordered for *free* from the U'u website; I
ordered a five-pack but only used one! and the rest were used as coffee
coasters.)  My first sensible U'u install was in 2009, in a vBox running on my
Puppy Linux PC (itself a throw-away of the cleaner's [at work] own PC, which
refused Windows in the end).  This emboldened me to install U'u on my new Dell
and on Barb's hand-me-up Dell from our at-home daughter in 2010 & 2011,
respectively.

  JP> 	On this one, with the single HD, 40 Gs, it runs. Hourra ! Shows to
 JP> go you that one should never give up. ( Tom ! )

:)

 JP> What matters now is that U'u is doing service here, I am on v 12.04.01
 JP> LTS. Good for another 4 years as Alan explained to me a short while
 JP> back.

You could say four.  The website [ http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop ]
says five.  You might use the fifth to decide on which upgrade path to take
from there.  This is what I might yet do with these 10.04 LTS installs.

 JP> 	This machine even if it now runs, is funny. In the BIOS, I have to
 JP> intervene everytime that I want to run from CD, I had CD -> HD
 JP> selected and if I then wanted to boot U'u, I had to select HD -> CD,
 JP> even if there is nothing in the CD device, it would stick to it
 JP> instead of jumping to the next bootable device, I had to do this many
 JP> times. Very strange indeed.

Wow!  How strange.  I too have seen some stubborn BIOSs but usually the options
changed have stuck.  It could be an early sign of a battery running
down?[shrug]

 JP> 	It ended up being mind over matter. What irked me a little is that
 JP> just before doing all the updates, I had toyed with the idea of doing
 JP> a clone but alas ! I did not and must now repent. Lesson learned. Now
 JP> it says that I have 328 updates to do, a clone first !

They are a pain even now, two years later.  I recall once doing an install
using dial-up!  It was an all night-er, and I ended up blowing it all away the
next day... exasperated when the thing wouldn't run as expected.  My trouble
was old hardware.  I mean really, really old and on minimum RAM.

Cheers,
Paul.

... I played poker with Tarot cards once; got a flush & 5 people died!
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)