{"id":38,"date":"2007-05-12T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:57:53","slug":"ubuntu-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td>\nWoke up (late) this morning and happily discovered in my mail box the disks I had <a href='https:\/\/shipit.ubuntu.com\/' target='_new'>requested<\/a> from <a href='ubuntu.com' target='_new'>ubuntu<\/a> only a few weeks ago. Really Nice ! <\/td>\n<td>\n<div align='right'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/images\/logo-ubuntu.png'><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align='center'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/v2\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/ubuntu-disk.jpg' alt='ubuntu-disk.jpg' \/><\/div>\n<p>Since my home server was already upgraded to <a href='http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubuntu_7.04' target='_new'>Feisty Fawn<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, I finished up updating my good old <a href='http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerBook_12%22' target='_new'>PowerBook<\/a>. Everything ran smoothly, except for the splash boot screen (usplash), which looks kind of weird (colors messed up). I&#8217;ll see what I can do about this. My main workstation will remain under <a href='http:\/\/www.linuxfromscratch.org\/' target='_new'>LFS<\/a> though. Yeah, I know, I known, I&#8217;m a wacko&#8230; but that&#8217;s the way I learn things.<\/p>\n<p><u>Edited:<\/u> it appears the framebuffer is static pseudocolor (ie the palette isn&#8217;t programmable). So I&#8217;m stuck with whatever the hardware gives me&#8230; thus these strange colors. Oh well, who needs a cool splash screen ? I edited <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yaboot' target='_new'>yaboot.conf<\/a> so that the boot process starts in text  mode&#8230; After all, it&#8217;s kind of a funky behavior for a <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh' target='_new'>Macintosh<\/a> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up (late) this morning and happily discovered in my mail box the disks I had requested from ubuntu only a few weeks ago. Really Nice ! Since my home &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}