[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 21:01:41 Simon Bridge wrote:
> ... this seems like something you have to set up *deliberately*. It's
> like they're *trying* to make things work poorly.
Yeah, on the other hand, my thinking is that they had the hardware, and 
determined it wouldn't run Vista, so they decided to do this in a bit of a 
rush without really knowing what they were doing. Or perhaps it was set up by 
someone who last used Linux 10 years ago.

> I can see a rationale for putting netboot first, but then the HD should
> be last.
I'd guess they imaged it, and whatever tool they used didn't do a good job of 
it.

> :) I expect a lot of updates.
About 250Mb worth.

> My Idea is to go as far as possible as a naive user, then write about
> it, then reinstall from a CD.
It's probably the best plan. I'd be interested to hear how that works, if more 
things work with a fresh install than with their one, it'd be worth doing on 
my parents one.

> Have you had a look at the modem mentioned? I'm still hacking into the
> system.
No, I set my parents up with a wireless router. Their phone line isn't up to 
dialup anyway, and there were time constraints when I was looking at it.

> (only lets me type one letter.)
export TERM=linux
might help there.

> exit (gets a kernel panic - so 3FS)
That makes sense, the kernel doesn't expect the init process to vanish.

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