Easy Ubuntu Problems (Brent)

[Richard Seguin]

Just a comment about the Dell....  Dell computers are great in terms of 
warranty and reliability... but from my experiences in the past, there 
is always SOME kind of complication with then when it comes to getting 
linux to run.... 

All of my systems are pretty old systems... I am young but I guess I 
take on the old mentality as "They don't make em like they used to"...

You will get your Dell going....


Brent wrote:
> Thanks Glen,
>
> Have already done that and RAM checks out fine. Even tested several 
> other sticks just to make sure I wasn't replacing bad with bad but no 
> such luck.
>
> Currently reading through help.ubuntu.com/community checking software 
> installation, repositories and any other topic that seems useful.
>
> The one machine in particular that gives the most trouble is a Dell 
> Dimension 4100. Is there anything special or proprietary about this box 
> that I should know about?
>
> Brent
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> Glen Merrick wrote:
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>> Two things you should check.  Your CD may have gone bad (not likely) or
>> those two computers could have bad ram.  On the Ubuntu Live 6.10 CD there is
>> an option to check the ram on the computer.  Run this utility with only 1
>> stick in at a time to identify a bad ram stick.
>>
>> Glen Merrick
>> Electronic Technologist
>> Eastern Passage
>> Nova Scotia
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:50:24 -0700
>> From: Brent <brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
>> Subject: Wasy Ubuntu Problems
>> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Message-ID: <46018C80.70408 at shaw.ca>
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>> Greetings,
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>> I am a retired, broken down old audio sales person living in Western Canada.
>> For entertainment and education I refurbish older PCs that I then give away
>> to those who wouldn't otherwise have computers.
>>
>> I have been installing Ubuntu 6.06LTS and Kubuntu 6.06 as my OS of choice
>> and have not had any real issues until lately when Easy Ubuntu failed to
>> install on two machines I have on the bench. I had been using the Deb
>> package supplied by the Ubuntu team to do the installs but it no longer
>> works. Doing a manual install fails to locate several packages on various
>> repositories. Switching to 6.10 and using SVN gives me Berkley DB errors and
>> "failure to allocate memory" errors.
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>> Both machines are PIIIs with 384 (450mHz) and 512 (1.0gHz) of memory. 
>> Increasing the swap file size and adding more ram does not prevent these
>> errors either. Both work fine for all other applications except for
>> multimedia, hence the use of Easy Ubuntu.
>>
>> Is there a problem with  Easy Ubuntu that I'm missing? Has it been suspended
>> and is no longer available? I know there are legal issues in the US with
>> respect to non-free codecs but does that apply here? There seems to be
>> additional information at freecontrib.org but it's all in French but that is
>> not my second language (I know, how un-Canadian is that?)
>>
>> I am fairly new to Linux and am still learning so detailed assistance would
>> be the best but I can muddle through generalized help too. Any and all help
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Brent
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>> ps, forgive the large font, I am legally blind and bigger is always better.
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