Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)
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Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Andrei Popescu [Tue, Feb 06 2007, 10:43:32PM]:
>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
>> Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
>>> myself, I haven't got the chance (I just used NetInstall's default
>>> curses installer).
>> Just boot with 'installgui' or 'expertgui'.
>>
>> I've had bad experiences with Kubuntu myself. I convinced my brother to
>> try it, but it would freeze at loading KDE. He was pretty disappointed
>> and gave up. Now I want to give it another try with etch as I am more
>> experienced and I know Debian much better anyway.
>
> Such freezing at KDE start may be a typical hardware problem. For
> example, my brother has a really broken sound chip on his laptop and
> there was similar freezing when the start sound was to be played.
>
> In such cases, changing the distro won't help you much.
>
> Eduard.
>
Actually, it might. When I first tried Kubuntu, the Live CD (both
Dapper and Edgy) wouldn't boot, no matter which cheat I used. However,
the alternate install, which is much closer to the Debian installer
worked fine. Etch installed on the same machine with no difficulties at
all. But the Live Kubuntu CD's still won't boot.
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