There are these things called rewritable cd/dvd's when you really need one, you just write over your least useful disc. That's pretty much all I buy On Jun 21, 2014 11:34 AM, wrote: > Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead. >> > Nawh, that wasn't the problem. > I didn't have blank DVDs. > I live in the middle of the boondocks and it is an hour-and-a-half > round-trip journey to go get them. > Of course that if I had known then what I know now... > ET > > On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM, wrote: >> >>> I hate Unity too... >>> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE. >>> Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of >>> support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu. >>> But I could not burn the DVD, so I installed it on VirtualBox, >>> transferred >>> the system to my real box, fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new >>> Xubuntu. >>> No sound... >>> Darn... >>> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian >>> Xfce. >>> So I got my trusty net-install CD and... >>> It said that it needed 'proprietary firmware' from Realtek, but WAIT! >>> It also said that I could install from the 'proprietary firmware DVD'! >>> Which (of course) I could not burn either... >>> So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box, >>> fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Debian! :-) >>> No sound... >>> And not second monitor... >>> Darn... :( >>> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, Mint worked before, >>> I may as well give it a F$%#ING try (I *NEED* a box!)... >>> Of course I could not burn the DVD!!!! >>> So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box, >>> fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Mint 17 Xfce. >>> And now everything works! >>> But I am hard headed and now I am facing years (I installed LTS) of >>> hating >>> MINT!!!! >>> Grrrrrrrrr... >>> 3 wasted days later, and with a fully functional system that I hate, I am >>> seriously considering to end it all and hang myself from a pumpkin >>> tree... >>> I warned you that it was a useless and meaningless rant! >>> So there... >>> ET >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >