[ale] Ubuntu no go

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:31 -0500, Jim wrote:
> I've heard y'all sing the praises of ubuntu so I decided I'd give it a
> try on my latest hardware.  IMHO it's not production ready quite yet.  I
> downloaded the 6.06.1 iso and burned it to two different CDs.  Neither
> would boot.  It gets to a "uncompressing linux ... ok booting the
> kernel" and  ................................ for freaking ever.

Jim,

run the burn speed down as low as possible. I've had many issues with
bad burns with high speed runs. Bootable disks are apparently very
susceptible to error that the drive can't handle. Also, be sure to do
which ever form of checksum available on the iso image. 

I, too, have not been impressed yet with Ubuntu.

<flamesuit>
Debian with a slick installer is still just Debian
</flamesuit>

:}
> 
> :)
> 
> Jim.
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