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Elive, need some help.

post #1 of 8
11/20/06 at 9:22pm
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With SuSe's betrayal of the Open Source community, I need a new linux OS. After serious consideration I narrowed it down to Fedora or Elive. I chose Elive. I've been trying to get it setup on my laptop but I've run into a big snag. The live CD wont work on my lappy. I tried it on another PC and its worked and installed beautifully. But my lappy refuses. I get errors instantly upon selecting the CD's startup and then I'm dumped to the command line. It cant find xwindow. I'll give a couple more details when I get the CD back. Its currently being tested on yet another PC. Everything seems to be working fine on that one too. Also, I tried both the stable version and the development version and I recieve the exact same errors. Edit: As I said before, right after I use the start option on the live CD (any of the start options) I get dumped to Command line instantly. The line right before the command line is as follows
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/bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off
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post #2 of 8
11/21/06 at 1:28am
A few people seem to be having your problems, as well. I haven't heard of any fixes yet.
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post #3 of 8
11/21/06 at 1:37am
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Yea, google told me that too. Very disapointing....

I'm open to suggestions though. I like it on my old desktop. I'd love to try it on the lappy.
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post #4 of 8
11/21/06 at 1:39am
you can always just install and ubuntu base and then set up e17 from scratch....or fluxbuntu or something
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post #5 of 8
11/21/06 at 1:49am
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I tried Ubuntu, and it was a good OS but, I dont know. I didnt like something about it. Couldnt figure it out. I could always install E17 on Fedora, right?
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post #6 of 8
11/21/06 at 11:19am
With enough work you can install e17 on anything. Gentoo it has become fairly easy on for example

In as far as your error, that means that your serial consoles aren't being set up correctly, mind posting a bit more? There is probably a few things leading up to it that may help, check dmesg as well.

Seablade
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post #7 of 8
11/30/06 at 1:09pm
TwilightVampire, since you mention that it boots fine on other machines, it might have to do with your CD/DVD drive and the quality of the CD / DVD that you burned it on. I have CDs that aren't of very high quality but can be read fine on some of my machines but are basically useless on others. So you could try to burn the image to a DVD or a decent-quality CD. Just my $0.02.
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post #8 of 8
11/30/06 at 1:53pm
I would doubt that to be the case in this instance. While you are correct it can cause problems on less than quality media or readers, the error messages you would be getting would give an indication of that, in this case errors in creating the tty terminals, not accessing them.

Now if there are errors, file read errors, or otherwise about creating the tty terminals, then that may be something to look at.

Seablade
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