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| Thread ID: 66221 | 2006-02-15 09:37:00 | Come In & Get It, Boys & Gurls | Murray P (44) | PC World Chat |
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| 430611 | 2006-02-16 02:12:00 | Give me Debian or give me death. It wil be around long after these "flavour of the month" distros.... :p | gibler (49) | ||
| 430612 | 2006-02-16 03:32:00 | Oh look, another linux distribution. :rolleyes: | E|im (87) | ||
| 430613 | 2006-02-16 04:46:00 | Give me Debian or give me death. It wil be around long after these "flavour of the month" distros.... :pMepis is Debian based, there's one or 2 nice ideas added in but in essence it IS Debian. After a few updates many components re-brand themselves Debian, with only a few Mepis branded programs still surviving on the top. Correct me if i'm wrong, but i assume that Debian can't run as a live CD before installation. Mepis is giving you the option to try before commitment. That's what makes Mepis a very cool tool to have in ones bag of tricks. It could be used as a try before install why of checking that Debian will work well with a particular machine. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 430614 | 2006-02-16 05:51:00 | Mepis is Debian based, there's one or 2 nice ideas added in but in essence it IS Debian. After a few updates many components re-brand themselves Debian, with only a few Mepis branded programs still surviving on the top. Correct me if i'm wrong, but i assume that Debian can't run as a live CD before installation. Mepis is giving you the option to try before commitment. That's what makes Mepis a very cool tool to have in ones bag of tricks. It could be used as a try before install why of checking that Debian will work well with a particular machine. Yes, but it still isn't quite the real deal. I'm not that zealot, though, I'll use any old debian package if I have to. Yep, that's true but I just use knoppix. That has nothing real to do with the distro as such. If something doesn't seem to work, I grab the most recent kernel package from backports.org and recompile the kernel with drivers/features I need. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 430615 | 2006-02-16 05:58:00 | Yes, but it still isn't quite the real deal. I'm not that zealot, though, I'll use any old debian package if I have to. Yep, that's true but I just use knoppix. That has nothing real to do with the distro as such. If something doesn't seem to work, I grab the most recent kernel package from backports.org and recompile the kernel with drivers/features I need.Does Knoppix now give the option of installing what you are running as a live CD like Mepis does? :confused: |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 430616 | 2006-02-16 10:34:00 | Hi Murray Think I've burned the ISO image to CD correctly and CD-Rom drive boots off the burned disc okay. I chose the Vesa (?) boot option due to display difficulties and then I get to the "unpacking kernel" line where it hangs -- any suggestions? Cheers C. Ali |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 430617 | 2006-02-16 12:19:00 | I'm no Linux guru, just a aveerage user who wants to use it and finds Mepis perfect for this, In fact the first distro I found that had no installation issues (until I couldn't couldn't help but fiddle, that is). Here goes anyway. Did the MD5 check out on the ISO/CD? What the machine your installing on, specs? Is this an HDD installation or the Live VD baulking? Have you tried text base, with minimal drivers? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 430618 | 2006-02-16 16:48:00 | Very interesting distro. Yesterday after I installed it, it started like a "live cd" which threw me a bit. It wanted a username and pword - mumbled something along the lines of "stupid linux" and bailed. Had a look on website troubleshooting and found pword and realised that very cleverly it acts like a "live cd" which I had instant access via kde which I was used to (have got ubuntu installed at the mo). Having a play around I see that it has a lot of the applications I already liked from a previous distros so have gone ahead to install, wiping existing ubuntu. One thing that I have yet to get my head around is partitioning linux with anothe linux, dont understand the extended and swap partitions that appear. As this box is for my kids I wanted something that would appeal to their needs - I like Ubunutu but it doesnt have that 'feel' that would suit them. Thanks for the heads up on this Murray - looks good but be warned - I may be back. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 430619 | 2006-02-16 23:42:00 | One thing that I have yet to get my head around is partitioning linux with anothe linux, dont understand the extended and swap partitions that appear . This is an area to take care on if you wish to save data all ready on the disk . If you have a /home partition installed already by ubuntu, and you wish to keep it then read very carefully what you are OKing . Both Distros like to have a /swap partition, a /home partition, and a "/" partition . "/swap" is like poor mans RAM, if yo have a Gig or so of RAM, you probably don't need it . I Have 512MB, an my machine uses most of it, but i'm yet to spot it use all . I have 1 GB or /swap just in case . "/" is system, it's everything but user settings and storage . 5Gb is probably enough, 10 is safer . /home is your personal storage and settings for all users . If you are planning to use 2 different versions and boot whichever you feel like, then its probably best to use the same /swap, the same / home, and have a / for Mepis, and a / for Ubuntu . Using the same /home will ensure that you and all users can access the same settings nomatter which flavour linux you use, not that all settings will be relevant for each flavour, but stuff like your email settings are . You don't really need to understand what each partition name means, just make sure that if you want to keep /home (for example), and /home is on hda5, then you use hda5 as /home with Mepis and tell it to use whats there . Hda is your first drive, hdb your second etc . The numbers refer to the partition within that drive None if this matters if you wish to do a clean install and do not wish to save anything on the HDD, just press Ok lots and let the Mepis install program do what it wants, it will probably make a very good set of choices in all the right places . |
personthingy (1670) | ||
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