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Re: [LUG] Gentoo easy installer

 
Terence McCarthy wrote:

On Mon, 02 May 2005 00:39:25 +0100


Rob,

You won't need much patience to install my recent toy- I've just climbed aboard the 
Ubuntu bandwaggon. Like you I've tried periodically to get a Debian based system to 
the point where I would choose to leave my highly individual SuSE installation.

I'm very impressed so far, especially the easy installation and the latest xfce4.

Having played around with it and it's brother (Kubuntu- U is Gnome front end, K is KDE) I 
suggest downloading the iso for Ubuntu, and after installing do "apt-get install 
kubuntu-desktop" if you want to switch to KDE.

(Installing Kubuntu on my laptop yesterday I had problems with the Grub installation, and 
had to install that manually after using a SuSE bootdisk to get into the OS- this did't 
happen installing Ubuntu). In any case this way around you get the default installation 
of both Gnome and KDE (each of which have something to offer IMHO), whereas there is no 
"install gnome-desktop) to my knowledge.

Use the "expert" option at the install boot prompt and you're away. The ordinary option hides 
root and you have to "sudo" into everything.

Up and running well, even though I will have to tweak the default chosen progs to 
suit my needs/likes better.

As I said I am very impressed (see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/), and hope you may 
be. If you have problems with the download I'll burn you a copy of the iso (it'll 
cost you a pint!).

HTH

Terence


Terence,

I have a couple of Ubuntu CDs lying around, I've used it before on my desktop machine and I was quite impressed. I also have it installed on my iMac, albeit rather slowly since it is a G3 400 with 128MB ram.

I'll give it a try on the server, I don't really need KDE or Gnome starting on it as its going to sit in a cupboard without a monitor.

I must admit, from previous experience Ubuntu has been much easier to use than Debian.

Rob


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