Booted an Ubuntu magazine dvd on CF-28

Hahahahahahahaha,

I booted the orig dvd as it came with the mag.

I fell asleep waiting for the desktop to come up. Actually it may have booted properly, I did fall asleep after 15 minutes or so. Perhaps what took so long was an integrity check , then perhaps the toughy went into hibernation. And the management s/w couldn't deal with the *nix.

Frozen, I pulled the battery. (Rebooted fine to M$')

Linux Format, issue 88. They also have an .iso on the dvd for "problem" boots. I'm burning that now. ;>
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The reduced option cd booted fine.

 

1) Ubuntu is normally on a cd. Don't know why it's on a DVD here. Try downloading a proper disk image from www.ubuntu.com.
2) Your ODD is the slowest part of your machine. Loading an OS entirely from disk is slow. But also extremely cool. You can use that disk to crack a Windows box, did you know?
3) If your laptop has proper ACPI, hibernate and suspend will work. If your notebook uses a hacked version of it, then you'll have troubles.

 

Thanks Lysander,

My toughbook still has only 256MB of ram in it, I haven't upgraded it, I'm waiting for a delivery.

I burned a cd from an iso on the dvd. It's a double sided dvd (issue #88) btw! I'm pretty new to all the *nix that's out there, Fedora Core 6 is on the other side.

It booted alright, but when the boot showed a partition manager being loaded I shut it down. I wanted to run it from a ramdrive, and I was concerned it was going to do an install. I don't have a recovery disk for the lappy and I'll want to do that before I do anything more permanent.

I may run the cd on one of my desktops to see what it'll do.

 

Yeah, the partition manager should not load until you double click the install icon on the desktop. Quite frankly I'd be wary of the disks they give to you. Go straight to the source.

And, 256MB of ram will get you by on Ubuntu. I had it running on a machine with only 128MB. And that was an older, bloated version.

 

Thank you. It'll all have to wait till tomorrow.

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Um. I rtfm, ;> The disks are install disks, either the original mag dvd or the iso built cds. They only do that.