What a trip.
I junked my tribe 2 updated till monday install yesterday and decided to install tribe 5 just to see what the progress was. Or was degression? Anyway I started with the live cd. Install went fine except that on reboot it wouldn't "see" my seperate /home where my gutsy user resides.
So recovery boot. lots of: Cannot enable port2. Maybe the usb cable is bad? BS
but it booted.
Could not mount /home or any other partiton for that matter.
I had used paragon partitioner instead of gparted because I had to resize a few partitions and gparted takes a while on large disks.
So that partly goes down to that but my brand new mepis 7.0 beta and my mint 3.0 kde cassandra had no problems with that. So FO.
Anyway and by far the worst was I couldn't install synaptic with adept. I CANNOT and will not live without synaptic.
So I tried the apt-get route. That told to do and update. What? Never had to that before. well it didn't want to finish the install because of some hald error. PITa.
I then did a Alternate install which went fine as well. At boot it still didn't "see" /home so it was back to recovery mode which asked me about my usb cables again. Then I remembered something about gusty tribe 2 and went to my mepis /boot/grub/menu.lst (thats where I boot from, it has a very niche grub slpash) changed from uuid (god I hate those bastards) to /dev/sdax and it booted. Still didn't see my /home. So I edited fstab and changed all the ones and twos at the end of each line to 0.
Now it sees my partitions.
Finally I tried synaptic with adept again. Again no luck it just wasn't there.
After apt-get update and apt-get install synaptic it finally installed. Great.
Bythw. FF and TB woudn't install from adept either. So that was a another apt-get mission.
Am I flaming? Maybe. But there is a reason. I mean no synaptic?? No FF or TB?
The update still won't install kde-guidance, crashes on hald and some other obscure thing. That is to be expected. All I want to do is install >
:P 
Of course it is my fault. I didn't have to test the tribe 5 install methods. But then again........
I junked my tribe 2 updated till monday install yesterday and decided to install tribe 5 just to see what the progress was. Or was degression? Anyway I started with the live cd. Install went fine except that on reboot it wouldn't "see" my seperate /home where my gutsy user resides.
So recovery boot. lots of: Cannot enable port2. Maybe the usb cable is bad? BS
but it booted.
Could not mount /home or any other partiton for that matter.
I had used paragon partitioner instead of gparted because I had to resize a few partitions and gparted takes a while on large disks.
So that partly goes down to that but my brand new mepis 7.0 beta and my mint 3.0 kde cassandra had no problems with that. So FO.
Anyway and by far the worst was I couldn't install synaptic with adept. I CANNOT and will not live without synaptic.
So I tried the apt-get route. That told to do and update. What? Never had to that before. well it didn't want to finish the install because of some hald error. PITa.
I then did a Alternate install which went fine as well. At boot it still didn't "see" /home so it was back to recovery mode which asked me about my usb cables again. Then I remembered something about gusty tribe 2 and went to my mepis /boot/grub/menu.lst (thats where I boot from, it has a very niche grub slpash) changed from uuid (god I hate those bastards) to /dev/sdax and it booted. Still didn't see my /home. So I edited fstab and changed all the ones and twos at the end of each line to 0.
Now it sees my partitions.
Finally I tried synaptic with adept again. Again no luck it just wasn't there.
After apt-get update and apt-get install synaptic it finally installed. Great.
Bythw. FF and TB woudn't install from adept either. So that was a another apt-get mission.
Am I flaming? Maybe. But there is a reason. I mean no synaptic?? No FF or TB?
The update still won't install kde-guidance, crashes on hald and some other obscure thing. That is to be expected. All I want to do is install >
:P Of course it is my fault. I didn't have to test the tribe 5 install methods. But then again........
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