[CVALE] Linux Mint, Mmm...

[Leon Rai]

Testing Moblin on the Acer's internal hard drive ^_^ Moblin looks nice  
even if it is still in beta ^_^
On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Ian Sterling wrote:

> Just curious, Leon, but why aren't you I stalling directly to the  
> Acer?
>
> --Ian...
>
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:16, Leon Rai <iheartmyibook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> also says "couldnt allocate video memory" and "addscreen/screeninit
>> failed for driver 0"
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not familiar with Mint per se, but try plugging the hard drive
>>> back
>>> into the host computer.  When X fails see if you can get to a  
>>> command
>>> prompt by typing ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-f2, or ctrl-alt-f3 etc.
>>> Once
>>> logged in to a command line, make sure X is not still running, and
>>> if it
>>> is, kill it.  Then run "Xorg -configure".  It will give you a
>>> command to
>>> run at the end to test the config it created.  If that works, copy
>>> the
>>> config file to /etc/X11/ and reboot.
>>>
>>>  -Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>> Leon Rai wrote:
>>>> Update: plugged it back into the computer i used to install Linux
>>>> MInt
>>>> with, it gave a command line >.< i dont know enough commands to  
>>>> make
>>>> much use out of it so i think it didnt work v_v any suggestions, or
>>>> does anyone know a good os to install to a usb hard disk if linux
>>>> mint
>>>> wont work? Thx in advance!
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Leon Rai wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hiyas! I am having some trouble installing linux mint to my
>>>>> external
>>>>> hard drive >.< It woudnt install when it was plugged into my host
>>>>> computer for it (an Acer Aspire One running moblin as its main os)
>>>>> because of grub issues i think, so i took out the hard drive of
>>>>> one of
>>>>> my other computers (aspire ones are hard to get to the hard drive
>>>>> with) and it installed perfectly to the external hard drive, i
>>>>> plugged
>>>>> into the acer and X is giving me issues. it says that x is
>>>>> respawning
>>>>> to quickly and that it will disable it for 5 min. then it starts
>>>>> again
>>>>> and it gives the same error message >.< anyone had any luck
>>>>> installing
>>>>> Linux Mint "Gloria" to an external hard drive? Or can anyone give
>>>>> some
>>>>> suggestions? THX in advance! ^_^
>>>>>
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