Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

Uhm, OK, Q, whatever turns you on

Actually, might give the bootable CD a try - only ever used knoppix before and wouldn't mind trying something a bit more recent

:confused: the link dont work

This post isn’t as much fun as I thought it would be.

What is Hardy Heron? I don’t speak Pooter.

Its linux for n00bs

you can even install it under windows now :eek:

Its linux for n00bs

you can even install it under windows now :eek:

So it’s a Heron rather than a Penguin:thumbup:

Is it an OS ?

Yes its an OS for the masses and nothing specific like Red Hat

Unless they've got my Broadcom wireless chip working without 2 weeks of fiddling I'm still not interested.

Other than that I quite like Ubuntu.

I'm running it on my work PC as of today as the windows laptop died so I had to upgrade the linux desktop.

Good points are that OO.org is now greatly improved, Evolution works very well with exchange, it includes firefox 3, Xorg 7.3 has lots of pretty things too and IMHO puts other OSes to shame.

Very nice little package.

Re the broadcom chipset, it works fine using NDIS wrapper, but to be honest if Broadcom refuse to give any specs for it, which was the case last i heard, then it's kind of difficult to make a driver

Thanks for the heads up Q

Unless they've got my Broadcom wireless chip working without 2 weeks of fiddling I'm still not interested.

Other than that I quite like Ubuntu.

Get the live CD to test it of if all else fails pop on the Ubuntu forum someone will know

I'm running it since last night, and after several CD's (damn cheap CDRs :() I finally got it up and running. Didn't fare well after it hung twice (once on selecting a screensaver, and once on changing the login preferences), but after that it has been rock solid (for the 4 hours or so I played with it). More later...

I changed my repository, did an apt-get update then an apt-get dist-upgrade.

Worked nicely

Ive put it on my Asus Eee

Ive put it on my Asus Eee

Dont' forget to turn off the atime for your partitions on the flash drive.

This can be done in FSTAB by appending the noattime to the mount point options for the drives based on the flash device. I'm assuming you used ext2/3

Dont' forget to turn off the atime for your partitions on the flash drive.

This can be done in FSTAB by appending the noattime to the mount point options for the drives based on the flash device. I'm assuming you used ext2/3

whaa?

whaa?

Seconded!

So is it possible to upgrade my Gutsy install to Hardy, or do I need to download and install from scratch?

I changed my repository, did an apt-get update then an apt-get dist-upgrade.

Worked nicely

Thats all you need to do

So is it possible to upgrade my Gutsy install to Hardy, or do I need to download and install from scratch?

Press CTRL + ALT + F1

This will take you to a terminal console.

Log in as yourself then type sudo -s

Then type `vim /etc/apt/sources.list`

in vim do the following:

- Press escape

- Press the `:` ke

- Type %s/gutsy/hardy/g

- Press Enter

go to the first line of the file and delete the line that relates to cd rom install files by moving the cursor (with the keyboard not hte mouse) over it and pressing the `d` key two times.

Now press `Escape` and then `:` and then type wq then press enter.

That will have put you on back on the command line.

At this point type `apt-get update` and press enter

Then when that has completed type `apt-get moo` (Ok this is for my ammusement)

Then type `apt-get dist-upgrade`

When asked if you want to do it say Yes.

Leave it for a couple of hours.

When you reboot you're running Hardy.

whaa?

AT TIME writes the file label every time you do anything to a file including read it.

Obviously this will create a lot of disk writes and since flash is only generally good for about 100'000 write cycles this will eat through your disk life pretty quickly.

If you follow the steps i said above and add it to the /etc/fstab file it won't do this and your flash will last longer

Ahh.. ive been told that its better to have the FS as Ext2 and no swapfile to reduce the load on the disc.. im running the beta at the moment, but ill probably wipe it and start from scratch once my 2gb ram and big sdhc arrive

Ahh.. ive been told that its better to have the FS as Ext2 and no swapfile to reduce the load on the disc.. im running the beta at the moment, but ill probably wipe it and start from scratch once my 2gb ram and big sdhc arrive

EXT2 is fine, but again turn off the AT TIME as above.

If you do happen to not shut the laptop down cleanly you will have to manually fsck the file system with ext2 which is a bit of a pain.

Totally correct, no swap at all as it will also trash your flash.

I've gone from 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon?) to 8.0.?? (Hardy Herron) just by clicking the update manager and then clicking new distribution available? It worked for me fine.

Press CTRL + ALT + F1

This will take you to a terminal console.

Log in as yourself then type sudo -s

Then type `vim /etc/apt/sources.list`

in vim do the following:

- Press escape

- Press the `:` ke

- Type %s/gutsy/hardy/g

- Press Enter

go to the first line of the file and delete the line that relates to cd rom install files by moving the cursor (with the keyboard not hte mouse) over it and pressing the `d` key two times.

Now press `Escape` and then `:` and then type wq then press enter.

That will have put you on back on the command line.

At this point type `apt-get update` and press enter

Then when that has completed type `apt-get moo` (Ok this is for my ammusement)

Then type `apt-get dist-upgrade`

When asked if you want to do it say Yes.

Leave it for a couple of hours.

When you reboot you're running Hardy.

Worked a treat, thanks! Didn't even take very long - 20 minutes or so

Now if Creative will just pull their finger out and make a 32-bit X-Fi driver I'll be laughing.

Don't suppose you know of any fan controller software like Speedfan for windows?