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« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2008, 01:40:43 PM »
Quote from: CA3LE on April 30, 2008, 03:36:21 AM
Okay, I tried Mandriva and was able to get into the live deal... where you can see the OS without installing it.  But for some reason the install process hangs and fails, I then gave Ubuntu a try and install hung up also, but I didn't try it on my other computer.

What I think I'm going to end up going with is opensuse, my download is about to finish then I'll be giving that a try. 

I'll let you know what I think.
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 I gave opensuse a shot. Tried to install it on my slave drive. BIG MISTAKE!! It hosed my setup. When I tried it, it said unable to install because "windows has the drive marked as active ntfs"  WTF?!?!  I just took ubuntu off the slave. I had to reinstall kubuntu to get things right again. Hope they get that fixed in the new version.
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2008, 01:50:06 PM »
 Thats when you create another partition w/ there manager before install.
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« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2008, 04:19:05 PM »
opensuse is definitly the best.  Very large community with real support and it shows in the end result of a very clean running linux distro.  Wink

I've tried them all now.. all the suggestions... and that's my final verdict Wink  -- can't wait for 11 to come out  Smile
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« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2008, 10:40:29 PM »
nevermind... suse was buggy for me.. I went back to ubuntu -- well kubuntu --- F#@& gnome, KDE all the way.
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« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2008, 04:36:52 AM »
Quote from: CA3LE on May 01, 2008, 10:40:29 PM
nevermind... suse was buggy for me.. I went back to ubuntu -- well kubuntu --- F#@& gnome, KDE all the way.


I can't get Ubuntu Hardy to run consistently, so it has to go.  Mandriva 08 is the most stable distro I have seen yet, next to opensuse 10.
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« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2008, 07:04:10 AM »
Quote from: CA3LE on May 01, 2008, 10:40:29 PM
nevermind... suse was buggy for me.. I went back to ubuntu -- well kubuntu --- F#@& gnome, KDE all the way.

Buggy? What where you doing to make it buggy?  :haha:

Quote from: mudmanc4 on May 02, 2008, 04:36:52 AM
I can't get Ubuntu Hardy to run consistently, so it has to go.  Mandriva 08 is the most stable distro I have seen yet, next to opensuse 10.

Have you tried centOS? In my experience that is the most stable one around.
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« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2008, 07:05:27 AM »
Quote from: dlewis23 on May 02, 2008, 07:04:10 AM
Have you tried centOS? In my experience that is the most stable one around.
I'll get back on that here in justa  bit  Very Happy
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« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2008, 08:39:36 AM »
Quote from: mudmanc4 on April 30, 2008, 01:50:06 PM
Thats when you create another partition w/ there manager before install.

 I gave it the whole slave drive. I just found opensuse to big a pain in the ass to install, and this coming from someone that has installed everything from windows 98 on up to vista.

 Was able to install ubuntu, maddrake and a couple others with out a problem. Kubuntu just up to this point seems ok. Runs fine now.

Just a tip, if you want to back up lynix, ghost 14 works great. I have used it, tried it, and it works fine. Just gotta make sure to hit the option to show hidden systems.  Thats just the fun of lynix. What works well on my setup, may hose yours. Plus I am just gonna follow the adivce of a long time lynix user. Try a few, then stick with one, learn it and in no time your system will be fine. Every "flavor" will have good and bad points. Trick is to set up your box for your own use.  After playing with mandrake a few days, It is a nice system, imho it looks to much like windows. I want lynix on my slave to have a diffrent look and feel to it.

 So instead of jumping around, right or wrong, with the help of nortons ghost, I will just learn and understand ubuntu, or I use kubuntu. I love the kde desktop. have played with the new 4.0 kde desktop that came pre installed, not crazy about it, but its still beta, will see how it all plays out.

 I am kinda impressed with kubuntu forums. They have helped me tons making the switch from windows to lynix.
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« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2008, 09:15:13 AM »
 Sounds like your hooked, I know Linux has that effect on me, the simplicity of it is astounding once you get to know the commands to really shake it up.

 I'm running a live centOS live and it seems to be faster than ubuntu installed, big time ! Thanks D
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« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2008, 09:21:42 AM »
Quote from: mudmanc4 on May 02, 2008, 09:15:13 AM
I'm running a live centOS live and it seems to be faster than ubuntu installed, big time ! Thanks D

NP. I moved my servers over to centOS 5 in january from RHEL and will never go back. Now I just gotta get is off this crappy OS called windows server 2003 here and move to centOS only problem is exchange wont work  :haha:
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« Reply #25 on: May 03, 2008, 01:15:05 PM »
What are you running 32-bit or 64-bit version of linux.
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« Reply #26 on: May 03, 2008, 11:34:13 PM »
The never ending question

God here we go again

My 2 primary choices are Fandora & Madrike

Also puppy for when you need to revive a dead pc or have to do something on someone elses pc that you want to remain confidential

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« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2008, 01:05:38 AM »
Anyone tried " puppie " live, or the usb ? I'm working on the usb right now , on an old 128 MB  :haha:

 EDIT , not 128, it's a 256.   Wink  I know the live cd is lightning fast , and is fully equipped, so thanks Dark06, I love it .
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« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2008, 01:35:28 AM »
Yeah i do too i have it running in my Nintendo pc

http://www.testmy.net/t-19051

I love it

it runs so fast since it is running off ram

i have use it on a 250 MHz systen with 512 mb of ram and it surf the web alright
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« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2008, 01:49:01 AM »
Quote from: Dark06 on May 04, 2008, 01:35:28 AM
Yeah i do too i have it running in my Nintendo pc

http://www.testmy.net/t-19051

I love it

it runs so fast since it is running off ram

i have use it on a 250 MHz systen with 512 mb of ram and it surf the web alright
I'm having a bit of trouble w/ the USB installation. I can install it, but incorrectly. I haven't found a way to format the usb to journaled yet, Gparted wont allow it.

 EDIT , I'm setting the partition to ext2 -boot , see what happens
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