Dapper Install — From Scratch

So browsing the forums over at Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org) I’ve seen a lot of people have problems with the install. After I was needing to get rid of FC5 I decided to install from a CD to see if I encountered the same problems.

I loaded the CD up into a ‘live’ mode and then clicked on the install. Opted to delete all partions and start blank. Installation took about 30-45 minutes and I restarted. Everything worked! I was up on my wifi, configured the connection. Did an apt-get update to see if there was anything I was missing. Done. I’m gonna get BUMPS for it, and keep it on there until something else comes up that peaks my interest.

Just had to share that I had no problems doing an install from scratch. If you read below you see that I had started at a Beta and just installed updates as they came down until I was at the full version.

Fedora Core 5 — we’re not missing out on anything

I’m gonna give it a whack and see how it compares to Ubuntu Dapper

Will report back shortly with updates

6/15/2006 — UPDATE

Well I installed it and then removed it quicker than it went on.

Here is where I sat. I have always liked the installer, not as good as SUSE’s installer (I don’t think anyones is yet) but it is definitely ahead of Ubuntu or any other text-based installer.

Finding all my hardware was where it lacked, and for me is what I base my primary like or dislike for a distro — I did the whole edit files till your eyes are red and fingers are blue trying to get stuff to work, but now, things should just work.

Start from the beginning:

• Had to manually select a ‘monitor’ for my notebook 1620×1200 was as good as it got, not my usual 1900×1200
• Under Network devices it saw my built-in wifi card, but I could not configure it — was only able to configure my ethernet port.
• Never did recognize my modem — not that I use it, but hey…why can’t it be seen?

What I did like:

• Atleast they’re not not that damn blue-wave trip RH started with 8.0. I hated it. Interface was very similar to Ubuntu so made things easy to find, function was really no different.
• Like I said, I like the installer, better than Ubuntu.

Hard for me to say otherwise what I liked and disliked as I did not spend a lot of time with it. I guess I’ve grown old. I want my stuff to just work like it does in Ubuntu. So it was back to Dapper w/o issue in less than 45 minutes.

New Hosts for me!!!

Well I moved! Last night about 11:30, everything magically started working on my old host. Everything was back up and for a min, I didn’t even know I was on my old host. But I left the name servers pointing to the new hosts and I’ll stop service by the end of the month when I can move one last customer. I have since moved 2 of my other sites, one is in the final processes of updating the name servers and a quick once-over that everything is working and we’ll be good!

As far as my previous host:
gearhost.com

When they were up, all was well. When they went down, it was at the worst possible time. I went with them on a friend of a friend’s recommendation. Paid up for a year, was with them for a year and a half now, always wanting to leave (even in my first 30 days), but didn’t want to attempt a move like I have just done in the last 2 days (4 sites, 2 hosts). Everytime I thought about moving, they seemed to work themselves out. Support was quick to respond, most often with ‘everything seems fine, let us know if there is anything else we can help you with’. While I was there, they made good improvements, but I hated to hear from friends/customers/visitors that my site was down. My only other complain with Gearhost is that it is a Windows — I guess it’s two-sided. I dabbled in some ASP and liked it for that. I also play with Cold Fusion and I don’t know of a cheaper Cold Fusion host. Their Control Panel is probably one of the nicer and more refined that I have seen, but my complaint about it being a windows box, I couldn’t set permissions on specific files, I always had to submit a ticket.

New host that will be taking my wordpress blog is dreamhost.com I had a problem with them in the past specifically with this blog, and support wasn’t the greatest in the world. I had the space, I wanted to get the site up, so I attempted to move back over there this time. It went VERY well! I honestly couldn’t be happier — well maybe a little, their reply time to a ticket is lacking (~24 hours). My only other complaint is that the connection ’seems’ slow, but ping times are comparable to Gearhost.

My other site (Forums/gallery/on-line community) found its way over to knownhost.com to one of their VPS Packages. I moved there because it just seemed like the right thing for me. Gearhost told me numerous times that my site was utilizing too many resources (every night between 10PM and 12PM it seemed) so I stuck this site on something that could handle a little more. The VPS has been a learning experience but I have been using Linux off and on for the last 5 years, so I’m fairly comfortable in front of a command line (definitely not a whiz by any means )

Okay so I’m blabbering, but over all…I’m happy with where I have gone and the decisions that I’ve made thus far.