[General] Help putting in Ubuntu

[Jeff Cotten]

Words I recognized: debian, drivers
On May 23, 2014 5:29 AM, "Arthur" <Arthur at cd-net.net> wrote:

> Well I just spent all night getting Debian installed, so there's that for
> persistence.  On the positive side, if you want a script to install Debian
> on an EFI system in a btrfs subvolume I've got you covered.  I even have
> one for slipstreaming non free drivers and other tricks into the initrd.gz
> file of Debian netinst.
>
> Side note, EFI is amazing.  I love not having to deal with grub crapping
> out.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:35 PM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gentoo is only for satellites!
>>
>> Silly linux hacker.
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Wolfenhex <wolfenhex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What if it's Gentoo and I told it to do a full KDE install?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:15 PM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> No matter what.
>> >>
>> >> Never give up on getting a distro installed!
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Arthur <Arthur at cd-net.net> wrote:
>> >> > Let the distro wars begin.  I say install Debian KDE or at least
>> >> > Kubuntu.
>> >> > :D
>> >> >
>> >> > More seriously, I wish I could help, but I'm not coming into town
>> until
>> >> > the
>> >> > week before the pig roast.  Sorry.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Jessica Jackson
>> >> > <j.jackson.ebel at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Will anyone be at the shop tuesday evening who can help me install
>> >> >> Ubuntu
>> >> >> on my laptop? I know it's supposed to be pretty easy to work with,
>> but
>> >> >> I did
>> >> >> it myself and it's not working properly. (Programs install weird
>> and I
>> >> >> can
>> >> >> only use the internet for 2-30 minutes before it freezes on regular
>> >> >> sites,
>> >> >> nothing particularly demanding.)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'd really appreciate it if anyone could give me a hand. This
>> should be
>> >> >> pretty simple for someone who's done it before.
>> >> >>
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>> >> > --
>> >> > Sincerely,
>> >> > Arthur Moore
>> >> > (256) 277-1001
>> >> >
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