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fight on installing ubuntu in the last week

In fact, last week, our organization involed into the fighting on dry weather. Hot and dry wheather has lasted almost 2 mouths. Many plant is going to die. We have being watered to all these our channel area a week. Irrigation apartment was responsible for it.

I am in project apartment, so there was many time to try ubuntu installing.

After about 10 hours, downloaded and installed it. I encounter a problem that the screen resolution can't be set to 1024*768 under text mode. I searched the reason at internet, finded maybe it was a FRAME BUFFER problem. After that, I verified this when installing ZHCON through command "apt-get install zhcon", it said like this: zhcon need frame buffer support, you can't use it. So, I was sure it was a FRAME BUFFER support missing error.

I install 2.6.15 kernel source and some compiling tools and compiled it, it spend me almost 7 hours again, sigh, a poor AMD K6-2 450 machine.

The most mess thing was after doing that, the new kernel can't support frame buffer yet, and plus a new problem-missing devfs file system.

I have worned out, next week, I will try some other methods, if it can't work yet, maybe I will discard resolving this problem. Or, try to install another distribution version, like: Debian, Redhat, etc..

I found Redhat linux9.0 only occupy memory 28M under my text console with 2.4.20 kernel in my duron 700 machine (stop some useless services), but, a ubuntu occupy about 60M memory under my text console with the compiled 2.6.15 kernel in my amd 450 machine (also stop some useless services). If the Debian can't fit my require after I trying it next week, I can choose Redhat cdrom.   

install ubuntu from internet, train your patient

It is a long progress to install ubuntu from internet, about 5 hours, although I install it though 1M ADSL. If there are CDROMs of ubuntu, that's a good thing. We can order it from internet without pay! Maybe, I should give a try?

Ubuntu is a beautiful linux OS. It is bases on Debian Linux and take the advantage and discard shortage of it. There are some differents between it and Redhat Linux, for example, no root user can login with normal way as it is in Redhat; we can't start a text mode linux with the way in Redhat Linux, and it take "apt" program instead of "rpm" in redhat linux to install program, etc..

I need learn the basic operations in the text mode, so I need resolve login into text mode directly in ubuntu.  

In order to translate word, I register an account at http://www.iciba.com, I think I can get lots of help from this famor website:)

My computer works agin.

  After about two weeks' interrupt of using computer as the main board of it was need mending, I can spend some time with my computer again.

  Those past days, I can't touch internet, so, Email, QQ, Website, etc., all of these has been delayed two weeks.

  A chip which function is power management near by CPU was stopping working two weeks' ago, it spend me a long time and 30 YUAN on it.