I'm gonna try this again. First I'll try a virtual machine and then maybe tomorrow I'll install it on a physical drive. I've been wanting to play with Linux for a while, its just that every time I try I can never get it to work. Either it won't install on my PC or I get it to install but then the grub loader doesn't work and I can never boot from it or I can load it once but never again. Finding and installing driver is way more difficult than it needs to be. Do they have installer packages? So here goes. Stapler? you around, I probably gonna need you!

I want to see what this really fast boot time is about. It's supposed to boot in 15 seconds of a standard HDD if you use the ext4 format.

 

I've never had a problem installing Ubuntu..

Its all about making sure your Boot loader works properly, otherwise you'll screw up your Windows install.

Once you do install Ubuntu, it does have an App Installer, filled with all kinds of useful stuff. Games, utilities, instant messaging programs, business software etc.

 

Well it won't install at all in Virtual PC. It crashes when I try to start the install process. It's too late and I don't want to bother with virtual box right now. I'll disconnect Win 7 drive and install it on my other drive tomorrow (today).

 

Installed here and there and meh, once its loaded I don't have anything I want to do with it....Like Ken, I am going to try a Hackintosh one day....

 

I've installed netbook remix on my mini. Seems to work a little quicker than jaunty, but I'm having an issue with using my restricted drivers. It found the wireless card driver and said it installed them, but it didn't. Easy fix per ubuntumini.com though.

I do like the new look of netbook remix

 

That's it exactly for me. I loaded it up in VirtualBox and now I'm at the desktop and thinking "now what?"

 

Me too.

I have it installed, and after running a couple of apps, don't even use it anymore. Plus it's not as fast as I thought it would be.

 

So I'm finally installing it in my hyper-v server 2008 R2 right now. One thing I notice is that it has more steps to install than windows, they make a separate page for choosing your language and choose the language of your keyboard. That could be combined. Also I notice that unlike the last version I tried to install it automatically makes a swap partition and choose ext4 as the default partition. That's much improved cause before I didn't know that linux "pagefile" was actually a separate partition that needed to be made, so the fact that it does it for me is nice. Well not really it should've done that from the beginning what the fuck took them so long is what I should be saying.

 

I finally got some time to start messing with Ubuntu in my VM. Hopefully I'll have the Linux integration tools for Hyper-V installed by tonight. I'm also installing SMB tools and winbind which should allow the Linux machine to operate on my Active Directory network and even act as a server for it! I love learning new things!

 

So now my environment consists of 2x OS X Leopard, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Windows Home Server and Ubuntu 9.10 (the last 3 are running in VMs on top of Hyper-V 2008 R2) all on the same network and I'm gonna try and get them all talking to each other.

 

Ok here's a noob question. What's the difference between cdrom and cdrom0? I only have one optical drive so why do I have two options? It does that for floppy disk too and I don't even have a floppy disk (virtual or physical)

 

cdrom is a symbolic link to the device cdrom0.

 

Are they both showing up in the shortcuts or are you looking in /media?

In media and in / cdrom is actually a link to cdrom0. I think just to make it easier to get around.

I don't know much about 9.10 though. I still haven't had the time to update my home server from 8.whatever. Now that I think of it I should probably update it sometime this year.

 

When you figure out how easy it is to install stuff over the internet with Ubuntu it is going to blow your mind.
The apt-get command rocks.

 

I have 9.04 on my netbook (multi boot). Any way to do this from within the 9.04 environment?

 

The package installer and software app store is pretty neat! I know about a year ago it seemed MS was looking into something similar for it's desktop OS.

I can't seem to get integration components working on Ubuntu 9.10 supposedly the kernel is too new. This flavor of Linux is not officially supported by the integration tools but the tools are less than a month old. IDK I'll keep looking.

 

do what? upgrade to 9.10? Ask Stapler, I crown him resident AZ Linux king.

 

I guess I could get integration tools working on 9.10 if I wanted to go through this!

http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tab...on-Ubuntu.aspx

 

I haven't been up to date on what is going on with linux for about a year, but ...

The update manager should take care of it.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

 

I am dissapoint. I already did this months ago...

I am currently running 9.10.

 

you want to compile the new kernel with me?

One thing that's bothering me about linux is that all the techy stuff must be done through command line. Couldn't someone make a script or batch file that does this for you.

It's fine I need to learn this stuff but it's no wonder no one uses this shit.

 

There are tons of mods/scripts etc that do exactly that.

And no I won't search the links for you

 

http://wubi-installer.org/

 

I think you should probably check out the os's ms supports for hyper-v

If you were going to have a remote chance at using it easily you should probably look at installing fedora or open suse.

 

What's the difference between those and ubuntu? I thought Ubuntu was the easiest to use.

 

It probably is, but I was just suggesting you should try to get as close to the supported linux os's as possible.

Microsoft seems to support suse enterprise server and redhad enterprise. The closest things to those for free are open suse and fedora.

 

I've had 9.04 on my Hyper-V box for a while now and I updated it to 10.04 recently and then my virtual network adapter stopped working so I think I'm going to give RHEL a shot. I'm acquiring and ISO and will attempt install later.