051220 Martin S wrote: > I must confess. I've been unfaithful For a day. > After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time > by uncarefully upgrading I decided to try something less brain taxing. > So I reinstalled with Kubuntu.
-- details snipped -- Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine, which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed & is too slow & infrequently used to install Gentoo. The latest Mandrake 2006 CD 1 refused to boot, so I had to make a diskette, then the installer couldn't figure out my 2001 graphics card, then finally when I tried to boot the installed system all I got was a lot of colored lines across the screen. "How about Kubuntu?" -- I don't like Gnome, so didn't want Ubuntu -- , so I got the CD, installed & booted the system. First, I wanted to set up ADSL, but the window fell off the bottom of the screen & I couldn't see the "sysadmin privileges" button hidden down there; when I tried to get sysprivs via CLI, it refused to recognise the password: (K)ubuntu has a mickey-mouse simplification which abolishes root & does everything with the user's own password, but of course the tiny handful of Kubuntu developers have screwed it up. The 2001 graphics card has a bug which prevents text showing on screen before X is started, so I couldn't install Slackware. Finally, I managed to get Mandrake 2005 = 10.2 from their mirrors & got it installed, tho' I had to use the diskette again to start installing. > I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ... > I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses. Exactly ! Back up often, try to understand what you're doing, incl ~x86, but if you do wreck your system, the best bet by far is re-installing Gentoo. And let's tell the devs how much we appreciate their donated time. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
