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Posted: April 19 2006,11:29 QUOTE

Curious... I run the live cd (v2.3), bring up a firefox window, surf to a music site, click on a stream and up pops a media player. Not only that--- I can actually hear music. Mind you, this is the first Linux distro I've tried that has actually succeeded in playing music. At ALL.

"Awesome," I say to myself, and confidently install it to the hard drive. It reboots itself, I log in, launch firefox, click on a stream and... NOTHING. Not only that, a dialog box tells me that the media player cannot be found.

What's up with that?

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Posted: April 19 2006,23:28 QUOTE

May be a bad install. I personaly have had bad installing on a old computer with DSL. But I'm still a linux newb so don't take my word to full on that (even though I have had bad installs).
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Posted: April 20 2006,00:04 QUOTE

Tell me about it. I can't for the life of me figure out the logic in a configuration that changes between the live cd and the install. I mean, shouldn't they be identical?

Oh, well. I'll try you guys' distro again when it hits 3.0--maybe this "feature" will be ironed out by then.

Peace!
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Posted: April 24 2006,17:23 QUOTE

Well, what kind of install? If you do the Frual install, then it acts exactly like the Live CD, but on the hard drive. I have done it many times with no problems, starting with DSL 0.9 to the present DSL-2.3

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Posted: April 24 2006,19:01 QUOTE

Frugal install is the one I did. I was *really* impressed when I saw it install to the hard drive AT THE SAME TIME that it was running as a live cd. Damn. If I wasn't so in love with my music, I would have used it exclusively. But, Jesus, for power and speed, can you beat a distro that installs and runs concurrently??!!

Anywho, to the topic at hand, my frugal install was not indentical to the live CD. By way of proof I offer precious little besides my account of clicking on *.pls links in firefox before and after the install in question. I have every confidence that DSL does its best to assure every frugal install is as faithful as possible to the CD. I also have every confidence that if I weren't so overworked/tired/ignorant/lazy I could track down the misconfiguration responsible, but alas, I am a college student.
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