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Post by alexham36 on Jul 25, 2012 23:02:07 GMT
Downloaded LinuxMint-12 and burned it on a DVD. Installation took ages and then it died! Second time it completed but it would not boot from HD - error "out of reach"! Installation took well over an hour with ages of staring at the blank screen. Several messages popped up out of the bottom left corner and disappeared before I could read them. I have never experienced anything less "informative". But there is a benefit in that I am now most definitely cured of Mint! Alex
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Post by mikkh on Jul 30, 2012 9:33:45 GMT
KDE lost it's way a long time ago. It attempted to mimic Windows 7 in terms of eye candy and ended up a bloated not entirely stable mess. I don't agree with pandering to Windows users myself, and it's not that similar anyway, so the effort was wasted IMO.
The main edition of Mint uses a Gnome desktop and is perfectly stable and usable in that format
The problem lies with KDE not Mint. It was designed as a Gnome desktop and that's what it works best with
I've been using the gnome version for months with no problems
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Post by alexham36 on Aug 1, 2012 12:15:28 GMT
Thank you for the advice, Mikkh. I downloaded Linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-64bit.oso last night and burned it onto a DVD. I installed it to a 10GB HD and it would not boot. Same error message "out of range". That message comes from my BIOS - I think. Do you know what that means? The HD is not faulty, because Puppy can read it.
I have another 10GB hard drive, also very old, and I have Ubuntu 10 on it. In fact, I am using it now and it works perfectly.
Basically, if we cannot get to the bottom of that "out of range" message, there is no point attempting more Mint installations.
Thanks again,
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Aug 1, 2012 17:42:03 GMT
Out of range usually refers to monitors, what screen are you using? When it first boots, there is usually an F key to press to change it or a failsafe option
10 GB is a bit small for a modern OS, I finally ditched all my spare hard drives of less than 20 GB earlier this year as worthless door stops I think the smallest I kept was 40 GB.
Best source of old hard drives is Sky+ boxes. If it says 40 GB personal storage underneath it's an 80 GB hard drive. Most common ones I find on car boot sales and flea markets say 80 GB personal storage underneath which is a 160 GB hard drive inside. I get most for a fiver or less
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Post by alexham36 on Aug 2, 2012 21:45:59 GMT
My screen is a Yuraku. Came bundled with the computer. I think my problems could well be me rather than Puppy or Mint. I wanted to format that HD, but there is no facility to do that in Win and even going into C> as administrator did not help because Win did not see the HD at all. So, I connected it as a sole HD at attempted to instal WinXp, which enabled me to remove all partitions. Then I jumpered it as a slave hoping to format, but Win did not see it.
I don't actually need 10GB additional storage, so I am just playing with it because I have it.
Thanks,
Alex
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