Successfully installed....

Taufiq came to my office yesterday with Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit installer.....once again we failed...and the message that appeared on the screen was "Chip does not compatible, need to use 32-bit installer" arrrrrrggggggggg....again....think of other solution...

This morning I went to see Assoc. Prof. Md. Mahfudz (Linux sifu in my faculty)...talked to him about my problem in installing Linux....we tried Fedora...it works but I didn't want to install Fedora as it is basically Red Hat flavour....I had bad experience using Red Hat when I did my master's project...it froze when the NS2 simulation time reach 1000 seconds....Then we tried Ubuntu 7.10....but this time we use Live CD which I never tried in Uniten last week..with Live CD we can test whether it works on our hardware or not...Ubuntu 7.10 seems to work well but something wrong with the display...the desktop was blank and i could only see the toolbar...so we tried Kubuntu 7.10...which is Ubuntu with KDE environment...alhamdulillah it works fine...

My next step is to install NS2 .......

Linux vs Intel Core Duo

I spent my day at Uniten on 6/2/08 to install Linux in my notebook. Installing Linux in a notebook is a bit complicated compared to desktop. We tried to install Xandros but failed. Then, we tried Ubuntu as they had successfully installed Ubuntu in Compaq Presario V3000 notebook before.....again we failed...we kept on trying to look for solutions from the net...search for installing Ubuntu in Compaq Presario V3000...but we forgot about the processor till we meet Mr. Peyo...after searching in the net, it is found that Intel Core Duo processor needs 64-bit Ubuntu instead of 32-bit Ubuntu....no time to try....we had to download the installer which took about 24hrs to complete....Thus, I just downloaded the installer using a PC in the lab and leave it on....

This morning I received a call from Mr Taufiq, he had succesfully saved the installer into a CD.....we'll try to install Ubuntu from that installer...hope everything will goes well.....