Is it possible to install Ubuntu on my Compaq?
Peter J Ross
Gordon
> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
Absolutely. Have you run the Live CD to check all your hardware etc works
first?
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Hadron Quark
> Peter J Ross wrote:
>
>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>
> Absolutely. Have you run the Live CD to check all your hardware etc works
> first?
1 second with google had this as the first link : "compag dual boot ubuntu"
http://www.akshaymehta.com/2006/09/13/ubuntu-dapper-dual-boot-on-compaq-presario-v3000-series/
The question is : does ME do anything different with regard to booting?
A quick google suggest 98SE works fine:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-196614.html
so I guess one can infer that ME will be ok too.
The big question is "Why ME"? Windows ME is about as bad as any OS can
be : buggs, insecure etc etc. Why compromise your HW with ME? Get XP on
it - much safer.
COLA say no to "Win ME" but YES to "ME too".
jason
> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>
Gordon
Why are you telling me this?
Hadron Quark
Telling you what? It wasn't directed at you - it was adding some info for
the OP. It's called a thread. But rather than say "absolutely" I also
added some factual links. relax.
Rick
If it was info for the OP, you should have replied to the OP.
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Dennis M. Hammes
> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>
System Commander will install, and menu boot to, just about anything.
It has one problem with DOS/Win95-98 in overwriting CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT for all installs to the one with the latest date --
which Billy seems to have caused deliberately by redating those files
on startup. Win NT (incl 2000 and ME) writes an empty CONFIG.SYS
that performs the same screwjob on real CONFIGs.
S.C. also has a "small" version of Partition Commander allowing
repartitioning without loss of extant data, however it will only
format FAT-16 and FAT-32; your o/s must format anything else.
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> Peter J Ross wrote:
>
> > Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>
> Absolutely. Have you run the Live CD to check all your hardware etc works
> first?
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Hadron Quark
> In article <1161753788.4...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> sean.mo...@gmail.com says...
>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>
> I have a nice laptop that I was testing Ub on, it didn't include WPA,
> only WEP, so I abandoned it and went back to FC5.
Dapper includes "network manager" which is supposed to work with
WPA. Unfortunately it doesnt adhere or work alongside the more
traditional /etc/networks/interfaces file - I couldnt get it working at
all either on my desktop or my portable. The networkmanager web site
reveals a ton of bugs waiting to be fixed.
Daedalus
wrote:
>Peter J Ross wrote:
>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>>
>Another day another troll
Yup. Trolls suck.
Jade
arachnid
It works great for me. Did you install network-manager or
network-manger-gnome?
Hadron Quark
network-manager-gnome which installs network-manager.
I'll stick with what I have now : the mail-list archives show I'm not
alone. I'll wait until its more stable.
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Peter J Ross
in alt.os.linux.debian:
This one certainly does.
FOB.
PJR :-)
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Peter Köhlmann
You can't earnestly expect Hadron to change his non-working situation. How
would he be able to moan and bitch about linux then? You know, he *loves*
linux. He exclusivly works with linux and uses windows only for games.
So he tells us. He is also a "kernel hacker"
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Daedalus
wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:48:20 -0400, Daedalus <ja...@netk00ks.org> wrote
>in alt.os.linux.debian:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:26:14 GMT, jason <m...@invalid.address.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Peter J Ross wrote:
>>>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>>>>
>>>Another day another troll
>>
>> Yup. Trolls suck.
>
>This one certainly does.
>
>FOB.
He's back again to underwhelm us with his total lack of skill or wit,
eh?
*checks watch*
Jade
flatfish+++
indows only for games.
>
> So he tells us. He is also a "kernel hacker"
Everyone who uses Linux is a kernel hacker of some sort.
There is simply no way to avoid it.
Peter Köhlmann
As usual, your claims are complete bullshit
Hadron Quark claimed to be a "kernel hacker". And is unable to do rather
simple setups.
He also claims that he uses windows for games only, otherwise he uses linux.
Yet he is mysteriously unable to setup his system correctly. Others would
describe this as "being totally, utterly incompetent".
I would describe it as outright lying. That twit has never seen a working
linux system, much less set it up himself
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Horsecrap.
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Linonut
> I did a base installation without really picking anything. Why would I
> want to only have WEP, it's not secure and for years we've all been
> saying that WEP is no a good option - I would have expected that WPA
> would have been the default.
Why? Not even the wireless routers themselves default to WPA.
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AJackson
> Leythos <vo...@nowhere.lan> writes:
>
> > In article <1161753788.4...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> > sean.mo...@gmail.com says...
> >> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
I had my old computer dual booted with a Debian distribution alongside
a MS Windows Millenium Edition. But the problem was that it (MS
Windows ME) trashed my Debian partition two times, so I bought and
installed another disk for Debian. After that, it went real ok. If it
wasn't for modem support was so bad back then (WinModems), I would have
removed MS Windows ME long time ago, even back then (arond 2001?).
> > I have a nice laptop that I was testing Ub on, it didn't include WPA,
> > only WEP, so I abandoned it and went back to FC5.
Haven't tried with WPA, so I cant say.
> Dapper includes "network manager" which is supposed to work with
> WPA. Unfortunately it doesnt adhere or work alongside the more
> traditional /etc/networks/interfaces file - I couldnt get it working at
> all either on my desktop or my portable. The networkmanager web site
> reveals a ton of bugs waiting to be fixed.
Network Manager works great, for computers that moves around, like lap
tops.
Just remove network interfaces that you want to be handled by Network
Manager from /etc/network/interfaces. But for stational computers,
like servers, you shouldn't run with Network Manager, just plain old
good /etc/network/interfaces. You don't want to have network access
started after you logged in through your GUI. :-/
Linonut
> In article <7eudnYhgn7iIPaLY...@comcast.com>,
> lin...@bone.com says...
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Leythos belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>> > I did a base installation without really picking anything. Why would I
>> > want to only have WEP, it's not secure and for years we've all been
>> > saying that WEP is no a good option - I would have expected that WPA
>> > would have been the default.
>>
>> Why? Not even the wireless routers themselves default to WPA.
>
> Have you not read anything on wireless security in the last two years?
Think about it. Why should the host computer default to a setting not
supported by default in a wireless router? A sure way to get a flood
of support calls.
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Linonut
I'll have to try Network Manager. I couldn't get wpa_supplicant to stop
connecting to the first router it found, usually /not/ the one I wanted
to connect to.
Right now, I just run a home script or a work script after booting.
I run it after I log into my GUI. :-D
Kier
Are you cracked? I've never come anywhere nerar hackling the Linux kernel
in three years of using Linux. God you do talk tripe sometimes, flatfish.
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wrote
on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:00:41 +0100
<pan.2006.10.25....@tiscali.co.uk>:
I'm not sure how one "hacks" the kernel anyway, although
one could contemplate tweaking files therein. At some
point I want to implement a stupid filesystem for
exploratory purposes, though.
Building them is easy enough, with tools such as
'genkernel' provided on Gentoo; of course one can also just
do 'make xconfig' and answer the questions. But that's
probably too geeky for many. :-)
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ray
> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
Very likely.
ray
> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
For real?? I have installed Ubuntu on six Compaqs so far with no
difficulty. It may depend on exact model, but most likely it will be a
piece of cake.
Hadron Quark
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Leythos belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> I did a base installation without really picking anything. Why would I
>> want to only have WEP, it's not secure and for years we've all been
>> saying that WEP is no a good option - I would have expected that WPA
>> would have been the default.
>
> Why? Not even the wireless routers themselves default to WPA.
Huh? They default to nothing usually.
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Hadron Quark
Peter, as usual, wets his panties when someone suggests to someone else
to be "careful" because even Linux has bugs.
He is so sad it beggars belief.
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Hadron Quark
Is this another forging?
Hadron Quark
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier
> <val...@tiscali.co.uk>
> wrote
> on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:00:41 +0100
> <pan.2006.10.25....@tiscali.co.uk>:
>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:57:37 -0400, flatfish+++ wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:47:32 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>>
>>> indows only for games.
>>>>
>>>> So he tells us. He is also a "kernel hacker"
>>>
>>> Everyone who uses Linux is a kernel hacker of some sort.
>>> There is simply no way to avoid it.
>>
>> Are you cracked? I've never come anywhere nerar hackling the Linux kernel
>> in three years of using Linux. God you do talk tripe sometimes, flatfish.
>>
>
> I'm not sure how one "hacks" the kernel anyway, although
> one could contemplate tweaking files therein. At some
> point I want to implement a stupid filesystem for
> exploratory purposes, though.
>
> Building them is easy enough, with tools such as
> 'genkernel' provided on Gentoo; of course one can also just
> do 'make xconfig' and answer the questions. But that's
> probably too geeky for many. :-)
It is so sad that Peter Kohlmann has nothing more to do than hang on the
latest word he has learnt.
Boy, do I regret using the word "hack". I guess trying to debug a
critical path in a device driver talking to an asynchronous peripheral
should have been called "development". Silly me. Unfortunately, what the
COLA gang forget is that at the low level we really dont care about what
WM or shell they are using - it all comes down to mutex/guards and doing
ones best. Sad.
>
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"Hadron Quark" <qadro...@geemail.com> wrote in message news:87vem8b...@geemail.com...
> Gordon <gbpl...@gmail.com.invalid> writes:
>
>> Peter J Ross wrote:
>>
>>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
What a moron... Asking peewee tech questions.
Nothing like idiocy..
"How many days would it take to write Linux
in Visual Basic" ??? Pant pant...???
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You go, vigilante thief::
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Remember hosting this picture or your moronic
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Are you a total moron?
Fuck you, idiot.
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"Leythos" <vo...@nowhere.lan> wrote in message news:lDH%g.18678$Cq3....@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
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> only WEP, so I abandoned it and went back to FC5.
What the fuck are you talking about, and does anyone care?
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"Hadron Quark" <qadro...@geemail.com> wrote in message news:87wt6o6...@geemail.com...
> Leythos <vo...@nowhere.lan> writes:
>
>> In article <1161753788.4...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> sean.mo...@gmail.com says...
>>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>>
>> I have a nice laptop that I was testing Ub on, it didn't include WPA,
>> only WEP, so I abandoned it and went back to FC5.
>
Linonut
>> Think about it. Why should the host computer default to a setting not
>> supported by default in a wireless router? A sure way to get a flood
>> of support calls.
>
> What the heck are you talking about - almost every router produced in
> the last two years has WEP and WEP
You meant WPA. Sure, they have them, but (takes hammer to your head)
the default is NO SECURITY.
> and for the last two years every
> security expert has been stating that people should not use WEP, that
> they should use WPA.
>
> Why would the driver not default to having both OPTIONS available?
Now you've changed the terms of the argument, thus ending it.
> What about all the people that don't install Wireless routers withe the
> default NO-Security, so that everyone in the area can't connect, that
> use WPA because it's been the norm for secure networks for years - what
> about all the support calls from those people?
My god, computer types can be most obtuse!
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Huh? That's what he said, cretin.
Gordon
> Gordon <gbpl...@gmail.com.invalid> writes:
>
>> Hadron Quark wrote:
>>
>>> Gordon <gbpl...@gmail.com.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> Peter J Ross wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can I dual boot it with Windows Millenium?
>>>>
>>>> Absolutely. Have you run the Live CD to check all your hardware etc
>>>> works first?
>>>
>>> 1 second with google had this as the first link : "compag dual boot
>>> ubuntu"
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.akshaymehta.com/2006/09/13/ubuntu-dapper-dual-boot-on-compaq-presario-v3000-series/
>>>
>>> The question is : does ME do anything different with regard to booting?
>>> A quick google suggest 98SE works fine:
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-196614.html
>>>
>>> so I guess one can infer that ME will be ok too.
>>>
>>> The big question is "Why ME"? Windows ME is about as bad as any OS can
>>> be : buggs, insecure etc etc. Why compromise your HW with ME? Get XP on
>>> it - much safer.
>>>
>>> COLA say no to "Win ME" but YES to "ME too".
>>
>> Why are you telling me this?
>
> Telling you what? It wasn't directed at you - it was adding some info for
> the OP. It's called a thread. But rather than say "absolutely" I also
> added some factual links. relax.
Then respond to the post you are replying to, not one you are NOT replying
to.
basic Usenet knowledge.
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Hadron Quark
How about this : go boil your head you arrogant tit.
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ps, also note the words "adding some info". There was nothing whatsoever
wrong with where I tagged on my REAL info after your fanboi "of course"
meaningless reply. Idiot.
Dennis M. Hammes
> "Peter J Ross" <p...@kookbusters.org> wrote in message
>
> You go, vigilante thief::
> http://mikeys-famous-pics.blogspot.com/
>
> Remember hosting this picture or your moronic
> website for over a year?
>
> Are you a total moron?
>
http://mikeys-famous-pics.blogspot.com/
Remember hosting this picture on your moronic
website for over a year?
Are you a total moron?
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baalbek
> Why are you telling me this?
Maybe because you need some clues? Who in their right mind run Windows
ME these days?
Baalbek
ray
I don't think so.