Ubuntu on VPC 2007 hangs

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:14 pm

thank you, will start dl'ing in an hour

Buzzzy..

>Geesh.. up until now I didn't know of any other person who is like you
Sounds like my mammie

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:18 pm

Misery continues..

Now i encounter the same 24bit screen issue.

I was following this topic:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/2184

Crtl-Alt-F1 runs the console but i have to login.
I am using the test user and i may continue.
Now i run: nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(Don't know what sudo bash means)
And it opens the file.
I change but i have no permission to write.

Shall i format all HD's i have because....

n00b was here..

merihevonen · Post by **merihevonen** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:50 pm

I think you should forget emulating Linux.. if the same error happens over and over, then it's no use trying again and again :\

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:57 pm

Hmm, i have a stretched but somewhat readable screen.
I managed to navigate to the file via the desktop (50% is off) and noticed the same issue.
I'm not the owner of the file.

I know i had to give a user twice, the first was debian but somehow i'm not able to log in via that account.

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:14 pm

Why not use a virtuell machine that support linux?
Here my x-server information from kubuntu 6.06 on virtualbox:
(sorry i have german-desktop)

No problems with any linux that i have tested.
The same with VMware-Server.

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:48 pm

I tried Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) friday on VB.
Im installing debian on VirtualBox right now.

I am eating cocaleaves

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:54 pm

Edwin Knoppert wrote:I am eating cocaleaves

What's that, can't translate this?

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:55 pm

Aah, finally, on VPC it's working.
It's not debian but root (and password of course)

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:56 pm

Sorry coca leafs

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:01 pm

Wow, looks nice!

http://www.hellobasic.com/images/debian2.png

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:09 am

congrats well done^^
As a side node, don't fool around as root, thats dangerous as the computer will the follow every command however dumb it my be and if you don't know what your doing your likely braking your system (not so dangerous in a virtual machine but bad habbit)

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:13 am

Any tips on running PureBasic?
Read in the text that it need some additional parts gcc(?) and so?

Thanks to all so far!

LuCiFeR[SD] · Post by **LuCiFeR[SD]** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:25 am

merihevonen wrote:Geesh.. up until now I didn't know of any other person who is like you :roll:
Don't be afraid, I was just as a n00b as you are now, but before 4 years when I first tried Linux..

BLOODY HELL mehri. There is no need to be so elitist, JUST cause you claim to know how to nix

.
Just cause you say Ubuntu is crap, doesn't make it so. Ubuntu is not perfect, but it is in its infancy really.

In order for any linux to put up a good fight against windows, it has to become more like windows.... so yes, make it piss easy for new users, but have good support and paths to show users how powerfull it is under the hood...

So far Ubuntu is doing a pretty damn good job on that front, but it is buggy. just like debian used to be!

personally I do prefer debian, but I tend to stick to stable versions, just so I know drivers work etc. It is all to easy to say "hey this unstable, potentially system destroying version of debian is the best!" when it really could ass rape your pc if you decided to install it for real. hell, it is so much easier to sit back and dist-upgrade later

merihevonen · Post by **merihevonen** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:20 pm

I AM NOT MEHRI!
Goddamn shiznit

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:30 pm

Hmmmm... I'm begining to change my opinion regarding Ubuntu. It isn't so bad on none virtual systems, i.e. on real hardware. The update function works perfectly and on my "real" pc it hasn't crashed or frozen at all!