[GLLUG] Ubuntu question

[Chick Tower]

Well, given that information, Frank, I would advise you to get the 
alternate install CD for Ubuntu (or Kubuntu or Xubuntu, as you prefer 
and as available) so you can at least get it installed and then you/we 
can mess around with your X configuration to get it to work.  Or, unless 
you're wed to Ubuntu, try another distro.  There are others that are 
easy to figure out, like Mandriva, Mint (although, as an Ubuntu 
derivative, it might fail the same way), PCLinuxOS, and Mepis, to name a 
few.

                                Chick


Frank Dolinar wrote:
> Hi, Stan (and everyone else),
>     Yup, Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 attempt to boot from the CD...
>     but have a problem when they get to setting up the X Window driver...
>     and I can't make the changes to Xorg.conf that are documented in a 
> number of web posts because..
>     I can't write the changes back to the CD...
>     so I never see the icon on the desktop that I never get to.
> 
>     This seems like the kind of deadly embrace (to use a database term) 
> or, if you prefer, a Catch-22 of which Joseph Heller would be proud.