Comments on: Intrepid on a stick

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:06:55 +0000

Hi Alan

I have just tried to download the image, but there does not seem to be anyone seeding it.

By: Graham Dalton

Graham Dalton — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:28:30 +0000

Cool Cool, I am liking the KDE4 enviro.

Looks like I will be downloading the Ubuntu Image and installing it tonight.
I assume that the 3d drivers are still a no go.

Oh and belated happy new year.
Glad to see you got the server going.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +0000

I haven’t played much with Kubuntu after my early try with an Intrepid beta. I expect I will give it another go, but not for a few weeks.

By: Graham Dalton

Graham Dalton — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:02:30 +0000

Hi Alan

Previously you advised you were working on a kubuntu install for the webbook.

Hows that coming along.

If its quite far off, do you have any idea on how I get the display to work on the webbook as the xconfig differs greatly from the ubuntu one.

Oh and the wireless card, as the standard install of Kubuntu 8.10 does not activate it.

Failing that, I will get back with Ubuntu Ibex Install.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:03:39 +0000

no, sadly it is not capable of Compiz, and even more sadly Via have failed to come up with the goods on a 3d driver after repeated emails.

By: JimD

JimD — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:09:52 +0000

Hi,
No problem at all installing 8.10, thanks for that. A question though. Is the video driver in this version capable of the compiz functions etc, or will we have to install Via drivers again? It’s nice not to have to worry about kernel upgrades at the moment.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:58:26 +0000

Hi Alan. I have been trying to download the intrepid 8.10 for a couple of days, but no one is seeding.
Is there any way i can buy a dvd with it already on, or can we purchase a 1gb wristvault with it already installed.

I do have one question, is this exactly the same as described in the step by step factory reinstall with 8.04 but just with the latest version.
Thanks Dan

By: bran

bran — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:11:17 +0000

dear allan i had finally downloaded and got a usb stick but i cant seem to get past the first hurdle with finding the (driver?) name for the usb stick that i am using (still a newbie to Linux), every time that i type in the mount|grep command in either console or terminal there isn’t anything returned am i missing a really obvious command for it the usb stick has been renamed in windows as photoalbum or could be i need to have a directory in /dev as i have tried media and desktop
sorry for bugging u in the Christmas season
ps when intrepid is installed will i have to reinstall the via drivers to get compiz up and running

By: Graham Nelson

Graham Nelson — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:19:39 +0000

Sorry unetbootin won’t work with your image file and the Webbook because it loads the ISO into memory and even with an upgrade there’s not quit enough space. Other than that it’s a great program for smaller ISOs.

cheers

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:31:47 +0000

thanks for the link, I will have a play with that. I started seeding the file again.