> 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, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> 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
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