4/02/2007
Day Off
Last week I installed Ubuntu 6.10 on Ynona's old computer. I tried a couple of times with just 256 MB of RAM on the machine which didn't work. Then I took a 512 RAM module from the eMachines which is also the same type of RAM (pc2100?) and put it into the machine I'm installing to and tried again. The live CD came on line after a while, it took a bit longer than I thought it should. I had walked away with a curser blinking in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. I was doing something else for a while then suddenly the desktop appeared!
The setup was easy. I had an old 9 gig hdd that I got at Goodwill a while ago which Ubuntu partitioned and put a ~348 MB swap partition on. Ubuntu starts up really quick after GRUB flashes on the screen for a second, it's the only OS on the disk so I don't have select anything from a menu and then the login screen comes up and pow, I'm ready to go.
I was ecstatic that I got Ubuntu installed but was then crestfallen when I couldn't get Firefox to go online even though Ubuntu got automatic updates from the internet. Then, Saturday evening after work, I was on the Ubuntu forums and found out that blacklisting ipv6 through 'about:config' through Firefox address bar was all I needed to get the browser online. The problem is that my Actiontec DSL router is not up to date enough to deal with the ipv6 protocol.
The setup was easy. I had an old 9 gig hdd that I got at Goodwill a while ago which Ubuntu partitioned and put a ~348 MB swap partition on. Ubuntu starts up really quick after GRUB flashes on the screen for a second, it's the only OS on the disk so I don't have select anything from a menu and then the login screen comes up and pow, I'm ready to go.
I was ecstatic that I got Ubuntu installed but was then crestfallen when I couldn't get Firefox to go online even though Ubuntu got automatic updates from the internet. Then, Saturday evening after work, I was on the Ubuntu forums and found out that blacklisting ipv6 through 'about:config' through Firefox address bar was all I needed to get the browser online. The problem is that my Actiontec DSL router is not up to date enough to deal with the ipv6 protocol.
