[SOLVED]Almost there...

[Harold Johnson]

Hello my Xubuntu-lovin' nerdy birds,

It's been months since I fired up my Ubuntu-runnin' Apple Powerbook G3 (yes,
it's an old one -- a Wallstreet II), and today -- after hours of stripping
down this beautiful machine and installing a new PRAM battery at the bottom
of the heap -- I'm ready to give Xubuntu another go.  I'd been running
Ubuntu without a GUI for awhile, partially out of a desire to learn the CLI
and partially to torture myself, I suppose; now, I'm ready to see if I can
install Xubuntu without too many hiccups.  (I had some before: read my
previous email, attached below.)

So I've simply logged in to my Ubuntu system and ran the following command:
'sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop'.  I must have added the correct
repositories months ago, because the installation is in progress and it
looks good so far.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for developing on this wonderful concept; there are still old systems
like mine that deserve to be running modern operating systems, and some of
us cannot afford those new Powerbooks!

Sincerely,
Nerdy bird Harold
SomethingThatHappened.com


On 3/7/06, Harold Johnson <harold.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello my Xubuntu-lovin' nerdy birds,
>
> It's been months since I fired up my Ubuntu-runnin' Apple Powerbook G3
> (yes, it's an old one -- a Wallstreet II), and today -- after hours of
> stripping down this beautiful machine and installing a new PRAM battery at
> the bottom of the heap -- I'm ready to give Xubuntu another go.  I'd been
> running Ubuntu without a GUI for awhile, partially out of a desire to learn
> the CLI and partially to torture myself, I suppose; now, I'm ready to see if
> I can install Xubuntu without too many hiccups.  (I had some before: read my
> previous email, attached below.)
>
> So I've simply logged in to my Ubuntu system and ran the following
> command: 'sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop'.  I must have added the
> correct repositories months ago, because the installation is in progress and
> it looks good so far.  I'll let you know how it goes.
>
> Thanks for developing on this wonderful concept; there are still old
> systems like mine that deserve to be running modern operating systems, and
> some of us cannot afford those new Powerbooks!
>
> Sincerely,
> Nerdy bird Harold
> SomethingThatHappened.com
>
>
>  On 10/30/05, Harold Johnson <harold.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm actually very apprehensive about installing any Xubuntu or any other
> > X-Windowed system right now; I recently upgraded from Hoary to Breezy and it
> > set me back about a week.  A big part of my problem had to do with my
> > installation method; I'm running a very old Mac Powerbook G3 without a
> > CD-ROM drive and have to go through a strenous process in order to get
> > Ubuntu (or any operating system) on my machine.  (Basically, I have to
> > network the computer to another Mac which has a CD-ROM drive.  Yet the other
> > Mac rarely recognizes any CD inserted to its drive; even when it does
> > recognize the CD, I don't know it because I don't have a monitor for the
> > Mac.  So my installation is a long and drawn-out process of reboots and
> > crossed fingers until a CD image finally appears on my Powerbook's desktop.)
> >
> >
> > After my last installation of Ubuntu Server, I installed Xubuntu (and, I
> > believe, fluxbox) and after rebooting found I couldn't see...well,
> > anything.  It seemed to have darkened my display.  I couldn't log in because
> > I didn't have an IP address (nor the ssh server started), so I eventually
> > had to go through the installation process again.  Someone in #ubuntu told
> > me it appeared I had a hardware problem, and maybe they're right - my
> > hardware is, after all, an older Mac.  Yet Ubuntu Hoary worked just find on
> > this old Mac, and Breezy appears to be good (without X-windows or any other
> > GUI).  So I'm currently using the CLI, and I don't mind it (though I'm still
> > considering going the Xubuntu route once a theme is developed).
> >
> > Harold J. Johnson
> > VoyagerRadio
> > http://voyagerradio.com
> >
> >
> > On 10/29/05, j Mak <joz_mak at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > Nothing significant. A stupid oversight on my part.
> > >
> > > J. Mak
> > >
> > >
> > > --- "Dott. Giovanni Bonenti" < gbonenti at missive.it>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > j Mak ha scritto:
> > > > > SOLVED
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > How?
> > > >
> > > > Giovanni
> > > > --
> > > > Dott. Giovanni Bonenti
> > > > Ubuntu GNU/Linux  on PIII 600
> > > > Linux user #209071
> > > > --
> > > > "Onestamente, il Jazz sono più quelli che lo suonano
> > > > che quelli che
> > > > l'ascoltano!"
> > > > (Elio, 19 luglio 2005)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > > > xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > >
> > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
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