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Surely Ill break it...
on: October 10, 2006, 17:07:44 PM
installed  Breezy Ubuntu on the lappie yesterday as I had a nice pressed CD for its finicky drive. Dist-upgraded to  Dapper overnight. Not a hitch. Now Dist-upgrading to Edgy Eft. Im waiting for smoke to pour out of this 6 y/o thing--but its running smooth  and cool. :ptu: Had  a couple of hangs which are no doubt due to the sketchy ATI rage chip, Oh, well. :lol:

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Reply #1 on: October 10, 2006, 18:59:24 PM
Nice work, I couldnt get any Ubuntu distro to load on my lappy. Apparently the CD/DVD is not compatible (its also about 6y/o) :s

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Reply #2 on: October 10, 2006, 19:09:14 PM
Corporate Dells and old Thinkpads in the 500hz to 1ghz with at least 256mb of ram seem to fare the best under any alternate OS, as there are just so many of them out there. I figure this one only cost me $50 as it came with a fresh battery and Linksys wifi card. :lol: XP Pro as well, none of this pusillanimous "Home" bidness. :D

Everything worked after install, though the flaky graphics can hang the little guy--so no 3D or screensavers. Boo hoo. :P Firefox starts in under three seconds under either OS. Good Enuf. Cant believe people could live with the stock XP Pro install with Office. That dang HDD wouldnt spin down for five minutes into a session, preloading Frontpage in case you want to use it next week some time. :lol: I cut the idle ram and cpu usage by something like 40% under XP. :shock:
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Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 06:07:11 AM
Edgy Eft results:

Fixable borkage, but its way more "edgy" than Dapper was at this point in its release. I may go back to Dapper + backports. Mirrors are waaaay slow, so up-apting took forever.  Touchpad and nipple went dead, then lazarused after a couple " sudo dpkg-reconfigure  xserver-xorg" and a few  reboots.  :lol:  Granted, they both work perfect now, but  it make a man nervous. :lol:

Dont go Edgy on your main box is the feeling. Dapper + backports  is perfect for everyday. If a backport is buggy,  its easy enough to roll back compared to an entire version number.
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Reply #4 on: October 12, 2006, 07:31:14 AM
good advice.

just about to crack a partition on my laptop and chuck on a ubuntu boot. last time i tried to apt date (dapper) my hdd died. mind you it was my mac :LOL:
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Reply #5 on: October 13, 2006, 06:57:53 AM
hmm, after a couple days use, I think I could recommend Edgy for folks that are a bit savvy. Its really nice. Unlike XP, the HDD light is pretty much off most of the time. Software starts fast enough to make ya think that this is a modern machine, not a 5-6 y/o thing. Sleeps to ram when you close the lid. Recovers quite quickly. Perfect wireless. Fn buttons for screen contrast and brightness dont work, but they dont in XP either. :lol:

I must have a guiding Linux angel or something as Ive had no major issues in years, short of a dodgy HDD.

If you wanna run Ubuntu or other Linux, a Dell Latitude is a freakin great choice. Modern OS, fully supported hardware, and cheeeap. $200. Im still astounded at the deal. :D
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Reply #6 on: October 13, 2006, 10:26:59 AM
Im having reeeaaal issues with Ubuntu atm. Put it back on my laptop and was trying to build my wireless drivers and stuff but im having kernel-source issues....

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kirika@polaris:~/Desktop$ uname -r
2.6.15-27-386
kirika@polaris:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Note, selecting kernel-source-2.4.27 for regex ‘kernel-source’
kernel-source-2.4.27 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
kirika@polaris:~/Desktop$


So this is /etc/apt/sources.list......

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kirika@polaris:~/Desktop$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
## Add comments (##) in front of any line to remove it from being checked.
## Use the following sources.list at your own risk.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multive rse

## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES produced after the final release
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe mul tiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe  multiverse

## UBUNTU SECURITY UPDATES
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe m ultiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted univer se multiverse

## BACKPORTS REPOSITORY (Unsupported.  May contain illegal packages.  Use at own  risk.)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe m ultiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted univer se multiverse

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported.  May contain illegal packages.  Use at own risk. )
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf dapper free non-free
 
## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera and more to come.)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
kirika@polaris:~/Desktop$


Thats the sources list from the Ubuntu guide for dapper. I have run apt-get update many many many times with no success. I have tried doing apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.15 and it says package not found (despite looking at it on the repository website :/)

Just found this for an error....
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W: GPG error: http://packages.freecontrib.org dapper Release: The following signatures couldnt be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F120156012B83718


This is fairly annoying as without it I cant build some of the stuffs I need. Unless theres a manual way I can grab the kernel sources and build-essential or something im missing :/
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Reply #7 on: October 13, 2006, 15:57:48 PM
The servers have been ghastly slow during my update to Edgy on the laptop. I had to crtl-c and restart the dist-upgrade many many time. :shock: Ill post my dapper sources list when I get back on the desktop. Youll probably want a faster mirror is all. Think theres a university one in the UK as well. ;)
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Reply #8 on: October 13, 2006, 23:29:37 PM
I just borked Ubuntu before it even installed, even though I nicely let it reformat an entire hdd rather than just a partition. tbf I think the cds a ickle scratched.
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Reply #9 on: October 13, 2006, 23:35:36 PM
PhoenixF. heres mine, and Im using the same mirrors as you. Thereve got to be alternates to be found, then its just a matter of doing a group replace in a text editor:

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# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the universe
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse universe main restricted
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the backports
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security multiverse

## PLF repositories, contains litigious packages, see http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf

## Freecontrib, funny packages by the Ubuntu PLF Team
deb http://theli.free.fr/packages/ dapper listen


What a freakin mess! :lol: Anybody that copies that needs to be aware that Ive commented out source repos as I dont use them.
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