PCLinuxOS interruptus
I was pleased to learn that the Los Angeles Daily News' Rick Orlov -- L.A.'s most esteemed City Hall reporter -- recently boutht an ASUS eeePC, and in his quest to make it run as well as it can, has begun reading this blog. Well, if hundreds of rambling posts about my Linux and BSD highs and lows helps, I'm glad to be of service.
Anyway, Rick replaced the eee's Xandros with the eee version of Xubuntu, and he's now open to rolling just about anything onto the diminuitive laptop. While I suggested an eee-optimized Ubuntu (the hardware can handle it, and I've always found that Canonical pays way more attention to the standard Ubuntu than they do to Xubuntu or Kubuntu). He countered by asking me whether or not I've ever tried the No. 1 distro on Distrowatch, PCLinuxOS.
I haven't.
But I had the standard PCLinux OS 2007 downloaded, and I got the GNOME and MiniMe versions, too. I also ran out of CD-R discs. Yesterday I walked over to Fry's and got a stack of 50, so I'm back in the testing business.
I burned a PCLinuxOS disc ... and it wouldn't boot on my test box (the VIA C3 Samuel-based converted Maxspeed Maxterm thin client).
I'll have to wait and try it on the Gateway laptop.
Comments
Why don't you just buy a stack of CD-RW disks? Less trash all around. I had twenty since 2002 and only two went bad. Still using the rest of them.
Posted by: Mr. Pink | January 31, 2008 1:46 AM
PCLinuxOS is nice, however MEPIS ROCKS!!!
Posted by: crash | January 31, 2008 3:59 AM
try adding noscsi to the end of the boot line. I had a couple machines that would not boot PCLOS and that was the cause. Even if you don't have scsi devices.
Posted by: Eric | January 31, 2008 9:11 AM
I've had the noscsi line help me in Slackware, but I don't even get to a boot prompt with PCLinuxOS, as with Fedora and Suse and quite a few other distros, it starts to boot from the CD but almost immediately reboots, and reboots and ... I don't even get to the point where I can enter any boot parameters.
Posted by: Steven Rosenberg
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January 31, 2008 12:04 PM