__/ [ Kier ] on Sunday 09 July 2006 20:05 \__
> Got around to trying the Ubuntu Dapper Live CD yesterday.
>
> My only gripe with it would be that it didn't automatically mount my hard
> drives, and I couldn't work out how to get them to mount (don't know if I
> was missing something supremely obvious or not, and any pointer would be
> welcome). This naturally limited me a bit in really testing the CDs
> limits, but it automounted my USB thumbdrive without a problem, so I had
> something to work on.
>
> Apart from that, I was very impressed. I'm a Gnome fan, as some of you may
> know, and it looked utterly gorgeous here. Understandably, apps loaded
> fairly slowly - the machine it was on was my old 'FrankenPC', which isn't
> all that quick, though functional. Once they were loaded they worked well.
>
> Ubuntu has definitely come on from my last experience of it, which was
> 5.10. I like the new default look very much, and I could definitely see
> myself installing it. It makes my Mandriva 2005 look amazingly old hat.
Hi Kier,
...Just done a quick Web search. Have a look at this <
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/installing_ubuntu_dapper_the_g.html
> and pay attention to the relevant comments. In Ubuntu's defence, I have
run the Live CD (versions 4.x, 5.x) on about 5 different machines and never
had any trouble getting the hard-drive/s automagically mounted. In fact, the
only issue I ever had was screen resolution defaulting to lower values than
what I had hoped for (Windows XP gave similar problems, FWIW). Some of these
machines were somewhat irregular. And by the way, I really liked Mandriva
2006, judging by the one evening that I spent with it. I guess KDE is not
everyone's cup of tea.
Best wishes,
Roy
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