

Installed Gnome and got back to work very quickly after that. At this point, I’m getting fed up, so I didn’t check the md5 sum - just burnt the thing and rebooted…Īhhh…. Burnt to disc, rebooted, it ended up failing (I cursed a few times but didn’t write down what the problem was, since I think it was a Testing iso rather than a release iso).įinally, I grabbed good old faithful Debian netinst (the current “Testing” image, not the Sarge image). Grabbed the Debian Testing (not Sarge) business card iso. It gave me an option to retry, I did, it had the same problem. This one failed at some other stage - don’t recall which. Burnt the cd, held my breath again, rebooted. I downloaded the Ubuntu CD (5.04 hoary I think - the current one). I tried multiple times and it kept failing. It failed multiple times for 2 different reasons (something about a bad partition, then also something about a bad iproute package I think). I did the “linux mediacheck” and all CD’s passed. So I downloaded all 4 CD’s, checked md5sums (which were good), backed-up my data, held my breath, and rebooted. I’m using Debian Etch and thought maybe Fedora would be cool.

This weekend I wanted to try out a new distro.
