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Page 1 of 2 So I've given up on Fedora 6 for the time being. I thought I could leave it running for a month, but after I updated all the packages on the system, the X server was gone... Completely. No way was I going to repair it, so I gave up. Unacceptible. I burned a copy of Ubuntu 6.06 and am installing it now. Wow, the cd is actually a live cd, I put it in and it boots up a minimal gnome environment. Sweet! It even has firefox, and autodetected my soundcard, I was greeted with some nice startup music. I don't know what to think about the brownness of ubuntu, but it looks pretty good so far... now I just need to click on the button that says 'install' on the desktop. Ok, so a bit of a problem, I doubt it's fully ubuntu's fault, mainly because I am stubborn. I like to use JFS for my filesystems, because I believe I get better performance and stability. The problem is the mkfs.jfs included on the ubuntu live cd isn't recognizing the hard disk properly, so it's unable to format it and I can't go on. Ext3 works fine, but I want JFS, so I booted up my knoppix disc and formatted the filesystem to JFS. I really don't mind the extra step at all, actually I feel more comfortable using fdisk and the format commands myself. Anyways, now that's done, and I'm back to where I was. Just needed to re-enter what I did before and now it's installing. It's great that you can play games while it installs. The nicest installation(of the base OS) I've ever done.
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