Ubuntu

[Karl Larsen]

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>     Now, keep in mind, I'm not a software guy. My area is hardware,
> mainly storage.
> The only time that I've been able to load two different linux distros on
> the same machine was when I loaded Ubuntu on a separate hard drive in a
> machine that was at the time running Mandriva 2007, and it was the last
> powerpack edition that was available for download as multiple cd iso
> images. It might have even been the 2006 edition. I really don't
> remember. Anyway, Once both distros were installed, upon boot up, I was
> given a choice on which distro I wanted to load. I need to mention that
> was with Ubuntu 6.10. That's around 2 or 3 versions ago, so I don't know
> if I would have the same luck now.
>    Mandriva started playing with 3d graphics and some other stuff with
> their 2007 spring edition. Since then, it hasn't been a very stable
> distro. In fact, alot of the same problems that I saw in F8, I've seen
> in the newer releases of Mandriva. In the case of my Dell poweredge
> server, Mandriva says my video controller sucks too, just like F8 did.
> I'm no programmer, but I think it has to do with the X.org release
> that's the heart of the problem. The best I can tell, I'm going to have
> to put a better video card in the machine, and disable the on-board
> video controller in order to run the newer release of most of the linux
> distros. I had been running F7 on it with no trouble, but F8 wouldn't
> load, so I've tried other distros, and most of them have given me the
> same video issues as F8. So far, the only distros that I've been able to
> get to run on the machine are the Red hat EL clones except Cent OS 5.1.
> Desktop BSD 6.3 runs on it as well. 
>     I know some of you are probably going to respond back saying "What
> does this have to do with Fedora." The reason I brought it up is alot of
> the problems that have been seen in Fedora, I've noticed in other
> distros too. Especially, the problem with system stability, and the
> freezing up issue, and it seems to be worse when running the Gnome
> enviroment. It's a problem under KDE too, but not as bad
>
> Jim
>   
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:48 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I have tried to load this software as another to keep an eye on, but 
>> when I do load it it takes over Grub! I didn't see any way to stop it 
>> from doing this. Has anyone else had success? If so let me know what to do.
>>
>> Karl
>>
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>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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    I have Ubuntu loaded and updated and it co-exists with F7 F7-68 and 
F8 on 2 hard drives. You just have to do it right.


Karl


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