Monday, May 14, 2007

Compaq Armada M300 And Linux

I had very good luck with BeaFanatix on the under-powered Tecra 550CDT, so that's the first thing I tried on the Armada. Everything went well -- it boots up very quickly from the CD and of course even faster after it's installed -- but I did have Firefox crash a couple of times while on YouTube.

I tried Xubuntu 6.10, and while the Live CD booted fine, the machine wouldn't boot into X11 after installation.

I tried Xubuntu 7.04, but that locked up at 15% during installation.

I tried Ubuntu 7.04, but that wouldn't detect the network card.

Needless to say, BFX is looking pretty good again.

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