[LUAU] Huron vs Gibbon

[Jim Roby]

I first went out and put this question on the Ubuntu list and got no 
response in two days,I then started reading the man pages on the Debian 
site.TKX all for the clear answers.The install of
Ubuntu was a real dream,easy to make the right choices,lots of fail 
safe,and friendly.Once it was up and rebooted it offered the upgrade,and 
I assumed it was security patches,but 650meg later we were automatically 
upgraded to Huron,and it left on the root desktop an ISO file that can 
be burned to CD. Just too slick. In looking at comments on the Ubuntu 
site there were some badmouthing the Huron,yet I saw no comments about 
Gibbon.I assume Huron is out of beta,
but is it too soon to have upgraded?
I did notice that in Huron they had dropped the install of Gpart which I 
used first to split the disk for the two OSs,but getting it on board 
with Huron was simple point and click,again my head spins at how Kewl 
this distro is. I mostly deal with Windoz and carry around a Dos boot CD 
and a copy of Partition Magic.I do use a CD puppy which I use to check 
ram and also as a proof of concept
as to if I'm dealing with a hardware or Windows(mal ware) problem.This 
is the first Linux distro that truly seems ready for prime time.I have 
been making copies and giving it to folks,knowing that
I wouldn't be getting frantic call at night.
This machine as mentioned is at a community center and will see a lot of 
different users,we have provided a single account and passwrd and will 
encourage users to set up  web mail accounts.
It will be an interesting experiment to see it reception and how robust 
it is.

Michael Bishop wrote:
> Jim Roby wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> All attempts to right the Windows distro failed and I then decided to 
>> give the entire disk to Ubuantu.Now we have a boot menu that boots 
>> Ubuantu but still points to the non existant Win2K...it just yields 
>> an error message and you can go back to boot the working OS. I would 
>> like to wipe the menu which now doesn't look pro,but reading I see 
>> there is no uninstall of Grub...man pages say to over write it.
>> Is this safe? And how should I go about it?  fdisk /mbr or something 
>> like that? Should I make a boot floppy first? machine has a floppy 
>> drive.
> A boot loader (like Grub) is needed (just like Windows), but in Linux 
> it's more visible. If you don't need the extra space, then I would 
> just remove the Win2K option from grub. Open a terminal and:
>
> sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> Scroll down to the bottom and comment out the Win2K line by putting a 
> # before the 4 lines associated with Win2K. It may look something like 
> this:
>
> # title         Windows 95/98/NT/2000
> # root          (hd0,0)
> # makeactive
> # chainloader   +1
>
> You can hide the grub menu on boot. There may be a hiddenmenu line 
> that is commented out, just remove the # from before it.
>
> As a final note, you may want to consider installing the latest 
> version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron. So far it appears to be the great 
> distro they've created.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Michael
>
>>
>> David Kiwerski wrote:
>>> Seems so, but not very active presently.
>>>
>>>
>>>