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Installation issues / High Hopes....dashed to bits...lol
« on: June 29, 2008, 07:05:33 pm »
I myself have been tryin get a decent MMedia OS put in the house here for months, every one's a stinkin failure..
(talkin bout the MS line of micro-crap stuff) Server 2003...man whatta pain...Windows MC OS.....another pain, and a joke...
I was stoked after reading about kubuntu-MCE, sounds like everything i've been trying to achieve. Well I can't even get it installed to see what all the xcitements about. Lil history bout me here quickly..computer savvy since '90, forced early into M-$ofts platforms(i know..lol), am NT guy @ school system here. as far as linux experience...tried red hat once....lol
Ok, heres my paltry dilemma, I have successfully d/l the kubuntu7.10 2-cd set, the single cd set for KubuntuMCE, then the DVD single iso for kubuntumce710rc2.(combined,slipstreamed w/ MCE??) Well my first attempts to install (barebones intel 1gHz 512ddr w/ older agp ati 3d rage pro..{it works})
not saying this was gonna be my core just yet, just want to install and familiarize myself w/ the GUI and OS, and other features. first attempt was w/ the 2 cd set....man it went smooth, OS setup, reset vid parameters, and away it goes....great. So all day friday, pretty much got around the OS w/ out incident. Nice...time to install the next part.... MCE710.
CD install
Heres where it goes all wrong....from what I've read, cd should autostart and MCE should get installed. Well no auto start, cd folder shows a deb folder and a MCE deb install package, maybe klik on the installer package???...gets me nothing but a box w/ description, info, etc. something about "all requirements met"... It does have a tick box there to "Install package"...ok, do that then.....then hard drive light and rom drive lights goe to flashing...lookin like its gettin put on...but then it stops, and that descrip box shows up again.....let it sit over nite and still nothing
DVD install
OK, this not doing it, fine, I have the DVD full install. So reboot w/ dvd in, it all goes fine, select drive, put in a password, warned about erasing drive..(no biggy)....it proceeds, go's thru a bunch of things, finally saying "copying files to hard drive" everything looks good, then start to get a lot of I/O errors, specifically around the language pack deflates.. get this in RED, "I/O Failure while copying from DVD"
ok, bad burn i say,...nope tried 3 different blank media's, different burn speeds, different burn progs (even tried the one in kubuntu710) even various combinations of dvd rom's & burners, all w/ same effect. OK, maybe bad iso d/l???....nope...found 2 different types (sizes varied) both do the same.
so in a nutshell, i CAN get the core OS installed via 2-cd's, CANNOT get MCE installed via cd add-on nor full dvd setup...
(talkin bout the MS line of micro-crap stuff) Server 2003...man whatta pain...Windows MC OS.....another pain, and a joke...
I was stoked after reading about kubuntu-MCE, sounds like everything i've been trying to achieve. Well I can't even get it installed to see what all the xcitements about. Lil history bout me here quickly..computer savvy since '90, forced early into M-$ofts platforms(i know..lol), am NT guy @ school system here. as far as linux experience...tried red hat once....lol
Ok, heres my paltry dilemma, I have successfully d/l the kubuntu7.10 2-cd set, the single cd set for KubuntuMCE, then the DVD single iso for kubuntumce710rc2.(combined,slipstreamed w/ MCE??) Well my first attempts to install (barebones intel 1gHz 512ddr w/ older agp ati 3d rage pro..{it works})
not saying this was gonna be my core just yet, just want to install and familiarize myself w/ the GUI and OS, and other features. first attempt was w/ the 2 cd set....man it went smooth, OS setup, reset vid parameters, and away it goes....great. So all day friday, pretty much got around the OS w/ out incident. Nice...time to install the next part.... MCE710.
CD install
Heres where it goes all wrong....from what I've read, cd should autostart and MCE should get installed. Well no auto start, cd folder shows a deb folder and a MCE deb install package, maybe klik on the installer package???...gets me nothing but a box w/ description, info, etc. something about "all requirements met"... It does have a tick box there to "Install package"...ok, do that then.....then hard drive light and rom drive lights goe to flashing...lookin like its gettin put on...but then it stops, and that descrip box shows up again.....let it sit over nite and still nothing
DVD install
OK, this not doing it, fine, I have the DVD full install. So reboot w/ dvd in, it all goes fine, select drive, put in a password, warned about erasing drive..(no biggy)....it proceeds, go's thru a bunch of things, finally saying "copying files to hard drive" everything looks good, then start to get a lot of I/O errors, specifically around the language pack deflates.. get this in RED, "I/O Failure while copying from DVD"
ok, bad burn i say,...nope tried 3 different blank media's, different burn speeds, different burn progs (even tried the one in kubuntu710) even various combinations of dvd rom's & burners, all w/ same effect. OK, maybe bad iso d/l???....nope...found 2 different types (sizes varied) both do the same.
so in a nutshell, i CAN get the core OS installed via 2-cd's, CANNOT get MCE installed via cd add-on nor full dvd setup...