Ubuntu and Kubuntu vs. Mepis.... Gentoo?

[Brian Kelsay]

This problem booting tips me off to one problem I've run into on older PCs
with newer distros.  I was a frequent user of DSL on a laptop until a new
version came out and it wouldn't boot.  I skipped a version or two and then
came back.  It turns out that a lot of people had a problem.  I don't recall
the exact reason, but now they release two .iso files and the one that works
has syslinux in the title and it has something to do with how the kernel is
bootstrapped.   Can someone else explain?

On 4/10/06, Jack <quiet_celt> wrote:
>
> --- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:
>
> >  Sounds to me like you may have CD burner problems
> > or possibly many bad
> > downloads.  If I were you, I'd check MD5 sums on
> > your .iso image
> > downloads.  Also, if you are talking about hardware
> > issues with your
> > laptop...
> That was my first thought, but it only happens with
> Ubuntu family of distros. Whereas, the odd thing is,
> that I have my best success with the *buntu distros
> on laptops.
>
>
>
> > Does  anyone have apt-get update/upgrade called in a cron job to stay up
> to
> > date?
> I've considered it, but have decided I like to see
> what is going to upgrade before doing it (especially since,
> I have OpenOffice apt-pinned so that I can use Mozilla
> addresses as a data source). Although, the
> update part is a good idea.
>
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