Ubuntu 7.10?

it's a great launcher too if you didn't already realise, you might be surprised how it's advanced if you haven't used it in ages.
 
Is it just me who cant get the 64bit version to install?
It boots, shows the menu, i select install/liveCD, it gets 2 lines into the first bit then hangs?:confused:
 
Gutsy is now installed! Woo!

It is very slick. Definitely much quicker than 7.04 [and Feisty was no slouch!].

Very happy so far :)
 
7.10 got.
Is there an easy way to get all the music and video codecs in terminal, rather than trying to open a file up and it saying "oh **** you don't have x, want to download it?"

Cheers :)

edit: found something, nevermind
 
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Simian said:
Should I use the same apt: command to get DVD's and MP3's working as I did in 7.04 or is there a new one??
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yhack said:
7.10 got.
Is there an easy way to get all the music and video codecs in terminal, rather than trying to open a file up and it saying "oh **** you don't have x, want to download it?"

Cheers :)

edit: found something, nevermind
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I don't know about doing with the terminal, the easiest way is with add/remove. They are all there as Gsteamer plugins.
 
Got to fix my install tonight when I get home. Grub picked up that XP is also installed on the machine - on a different drive to Gutsy, XP is on a Sata drive and Gutsy on an old IDE drive - but if I try to select XP in the boot loader it gives me the following error:

Error 23: Error while parsing number

Not sure yet what this error really means, nor how I'm going to fix it. I guess I could just run Fixmbr from the XP CD, but this will wipe out Grub so I'd rather not do that unless I have to.

Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions?
 
Sounds like your menu.lst is pointing to the wrong place.

Can you paste the output of
Code: 
sudo fdisk -l
and your /boot/grub/menu.lst? :)
 
Here's fdisk:

Code: 
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x22c322c2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        9729    78148161    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb7e61057

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        4790    38475643+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2            4791        7476    21575295    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5            4791        7345    20523006   83  Linux
/dev/hdb6            7346        7476     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
...and menu.lst (just the XP part)

Code: 
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root            (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map             (hd0) (hd1)
map             (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader     +1

edit: just saw my copy 'n' paste missed some off, so just added it again.
 
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Just reading up on the map command, not come across that before.

What about changing
Code: 
map    (hd0) (hd1)
to
Code: 
map    (hd0) (hd1)
map    (hd1) (hd0)
?
 
Yeah, it's already got that (my copy 'n' paste skills let me down before I edited the post).

Think I might just bite the bullet and run fixmbr and then re-install Gutsy. Really enjoying Gutsy though, my PC has never been this quick at doing stuff before :)
 
right - with this release i've gone back to Ubuntu!

trouble is its stopped on 15% of the install (Detecting file systems) and hasn't moved in hours!

what should i do? I have no idea whats up with it.
 
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right - with this release i've gone back to Ubuntu!

trouble is its stopped on 15% of the install (Detecting file systems) and hasn't moved in hours!

what should i do? I have no idea whats up with it.
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If it has fallen over there then it's crashed.. are you upgrading, if not I'd just recycle the power and start the install again..
 
no its a fresh install.

i've not used a *nix system for a few years and after Vista Ultimate failed a couple of times 7.1 hit - and i've switched!

So basically i just set the installer to format the partition i was trying to get vista on, and set that up to take 3 new partitions for Ubuntu...
just seen this was a known bug from the last release, so nice to see its been fixed!

anyway, i'll reboot and see where i stand with it all....
 
OK..ive got it and had a bit of a play about, and everything seems so much more polished and much easier than it used to be a year ago (since i last used Ubuntu) and i am really pleased that i got rid of my previous installation for this as i love gnome. just had a few bad experiences due to fedora core unfortunately. i definitely recommend this distro. 5 stars from me so far. although i haven't tried EVERYTHING, but its really easy to use and best of all, fast :D sorry if i babbled on, had a couple of drinks :)
 
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