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[rbistolfi]

well, I finally made the install, it is awesome!! Fastest thing ever. Congratulations to everybody involved in this release.

[uelsk8s]

Adobe font should be in there, how to use them in a question for someone else 

opera 925 stable is out we just missed getting it into 5.9

[DULCIMERED]

Very exited to try, downloaded And burned iso.Tried on Thinkpad first, says invalid
compression type. so tried it on Dell, says it loaded but reboot and has grub error.
also install time is about 10 min.  seems quick to me. any ideas?

[blurymind]

Very exited to try, downloaded And burned iso.Tried on Thinkpad first, says invalid
compression type. so tried it on Dell, says it loaded but reboot and has grub error.
also install time is about 10 min.  seems quick to me. any ideas?

Dulcimered- try to reinstall lilo and overwrite grub on the mbr. If you have other distros,you should reinstall grub and put the right settings so it boots vec too.

[jimjan]

really love how current live version runs on 5.8 standard [little to no thrashing of optical drive];

will there be another great live [almost like ram running] live version?

[demigaucher]

WOW ! Nice Christmas gift.

Beautiful surprise on distrowatch: VL5.9 under the tree. Downloaded it eagerly.
Installed (no problem). Tested: everything I need works fine, and my old
pentium 3 flies like mad ! I keep it (I was using VL5.8 both gold and soho).

Great achievement, and a big step forward. Congratulations and many thanks
to all the Vector team.

Demigaucher
old pentium III @ 700 MHz

 

[Vanger]

Hi.

Installed the latest and shiniest VL . Great as always. The first thought - "Hell, why does it work so fast?".
A really good release.

I encountered a pair of small issues though.
1) While installing VL on my laptop I couldn't choose as root corresponding partition of my old VL system. I found, that it was mounted while disc was booting - to /mnt/media. Umount didn't work, fuser is not installed on that busybox, so I just used cfdisk and changed type of partition to something odd, then rebooted. And after succesfull boot with no mounted partitions, I changed it back and installed normally.
2) It's not comfortable for me to use opera with Yahoo search, not Google. Changed this of course, but still it's strange.

Great work!

[dawnsboy]

I took my turn at downloading and installing VL 5.9 on this old laptop.  I was very impressed with the distro as a whole.  The only issue I have is that VL 5.9 alsaconf will not actually install my soundcard (although it claims it has done so).  It is the same error I received when I tried to install VL 5.1 with the 2.4.x kernel.  No matter what fix I tried to use I kept getting the old mixer is not attached to a sound card message.  Oh well, that is a short coming of the aging hardware.  Back to good old VL 5.8.  I have a feeling that 5.9 would be just a bit much for this old box anyway (but I look forward to catching up with new releases after I get a new box  ).

Great job! 

[Vanger]

No, it shouldn't be because of aging hardware.
Open theme in http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?board=17.0 if you didn't. I'm pretty sure it's solvable.

And one more minor issue - there is no  FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" in xorg.conf. You have to add it manually.

[dawnsboy]

No, it shouldn't be because of aging hardware.
Open theme in http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?board=17.0 if you didn't. I'm pretty sure it's solvable.

Thanks for the encouragement.  Actually I have been able to make the sound work with this neomagic 256av sound card  in VL 4.0, 4.3 and 5.8.  It will also work in 5.1 SOHO but not 5.1 standard using the 2.4.x kernel (although alsa works just fine with the 2.6.x kernel in 5.1 standard).  I can edit the files to my hearts content but nothing works with these two versions of VL.  ALSA will claim to have found and setup the sound card but when it comes down to it the system claims there is no card.  It does not matter which fix I use for that and I have put in a lot of time with this issue.

I am happy with VL 5.8 and imagine that I will be able to run this OS for a while longer anyway.

[lydia]

Can someone tell me where I can download this from. I downloaded from the link at the begin of this thread and install but it is 5.8 SOHO edition.
Thank You

[Dweeberkitty]

Can someone tell me where I can download this from. I downloaded from the link at the begin of this thread and install but it is 5.8 SOHO edition.
Thank You

That's weird, try this link: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.9/iso-release/VL5.9-STD-Gold.iso

[lydia]

Downloading now.  I hope this works.  Thank you

[lydia]

Nope I downloaded and installed 5.8.6 RC1 again 

[The Headacher]

Nope I downloaded and installed 5.8.6 RC1 again

Let me guess: You have the SOHO 5.8.6 .iso still on your harddrive. For some reason, the installer on the cd checks for iso's first. When you run the installer, it says something like "found media: /dev/hda4/VL-5.8.6-soho-rc1.iso . Is this the correct one?". Choose "No", and it will search for the next. If you have multiple VL .iso's, skip them all until I it finds the right one (the cdrom in the drive).