Ubuntu 10.04 - anyone else trying it out?

fermi

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Been using Mint as my main OS for a few years, since Mint 4 Daryna. Currently using Mint 8 Helena and looking forward to the release of Mint 9 Isadora in a few days.

It's an excellent OS and a very easy starting point for convertees from Windows.

Now released.

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1403

tweeter

Hi peeps,

I managed to install a Lexmark Z640 printer in Ubuntu 10.04. which is not a straightforward affair. I now get when booting up: An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb
Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.

Pressing S completes the process but I would like to stop this appearing.

I've tried typing this in the terminal, sudo nano /etc/fstab and get: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14 0 0. as somebody on the Ubuntu website suggested that one should, "add # in front of the line: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=123,devmode=644 0 0" to resolve this problem, but my readout does not contain the word "none" to put the hash in front of.

Does anybody know if I put the hash # in front of my terminal readout without the word "none" in front of it it will stop the bootup screen problem.

No one has got back to me as of yet on the Ubuntu website, about this missing word problem and where to put the # in.

Any replies here would be appreciated.

fwor

I'd have a guess here that you had a USB based storage device (perhaps a pendrive) attached to the PC when you did the install?

The "none" is just a placeholder where a UUID or device name would normally be. You should have exactly the same effect putting a # at the start of the line before the first usbfs. This should cause the line to be ignored at system boot and it will no longer try to mount a (presumably) non-existent device.

tweeter

Thanks fwor. I just new someone on here would have the answer and yours did the trick. Cheers.

chelms38

Funny thing with windows was printers always played up, but with Ubuntu it was just plug in and it worked first time. :beer:

tweeter

The Lexmark Z640 printer is a bit of a rigmarole to install in Ubuntu, as the drivers are not in the list of drivers when setting up this printer in Ubuntu.

Toxteth_OGrady

fwor wrote: »

It's also worth pointing out that it lags behind Ubuntu by a month or so, so I'm fairly sure that the current Mint release will be based on Ubuntu 9.10, not 10.04.

The new Mint 9 is based on Ubuntu 10.04.

I have to say I'm extremely impressed with the new release of Mint. The installation makes Windows look cumbersome and difficult.

I have a fairly new laptop with Win 7. I was able to install Mint 9 as a dual boot and got up and running with wireless internet/Firefox/Thunderbird email, wireless network printer, integrated webcam / Skype video and SD card reader in 30 minutes.

All achieved on a very elegant and simple GUI without a single sight of the Terminal or use of the command line. Didn't have to search for or download any drivers or other software; it all worked out-of-the-box.

The installation GUI menu even gave me the option to import Favorites, My Documents, My Pictures and My Music from the Windows partiton.

Given that Linux distros have traditionally had problems with wireless drivers for laptops I was amazed that with Mint 9 all I had to do was click on the taskbar network connections icon, click on my wifi SSID from the list and then type my PSK into the dialogue box. Job done. As soon as the wifi connected the OS auto-updated. Nice.

:cool:

TOG