Installing Linux
I decided to put linux on my brothers computer just for curiositys sake. I downloaded Ubuntu fine, burnt it to disc and whacked into my brothers computer but it just comes up with "disk boot failiure".
Do I have to call the cd anything in paticular? Do the files have to be in another file or can they just be loose on the cd?
Any ideas?
With love and many thanks,
Melons
Hi,
Make sure you burnt the ISO properly (don't extract the ISO, use a program to burn the physical ISO).
Also, make sure your PC is booting from CD.
Craig.
Turns out I was just burning dada disks, its all sorted now. Thanks for the help!
With love and many thanks,
Melons
By comand line does it mean terminal? Sorry, I didn't want to start a new thread.
With love and many thanks,
Melons
Yup !
Also, i had loads of questions when i forst used Ubuntu - check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/. Usualy quicker than forums, and more in depth !
Originally Posted by Saracen
Thanks. This is sooooo confusing. I'm trying to instal stuff and it sez comandline this and download that. agggghhhh
When you partition your hard drive, can you store things in the unpartitioned space?
On second thoughts, could someone tell me how to partition my hard drive (its 250gb) as I have no ideo what I'm doing
Last edited by Steve; 07-10-2006 at 06:15 PM.
With love and many thanks,
Melons
You can just follow the guided partitioning. If you're just trying things out, then you can just have your root partition (that would be /) on one partition (about 5GB+), and a swap partition.
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
Okay, now I've really bummed up! I tried doing the first one on here but I went and put in the wrong resulution (it wouldn't auto-detect so I had to do it manually)! So now I have no display. I tried using the recovery mode and put the comand in again, but it says "no such file or directory". Is there a vga safemode of some kind?
With love and many thanks,
Melons
You mean you can't run
?Code:sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
If that doesn't work, try
Code:sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
if you expect people to be able to help you with technical problems, you need to be detailed and explicit:
1) what precisely did you do
2) what was the expected outcome
3) what was the desired outcome
without answers to the three above, you can't be helped. "it" is never a useful word to use - *what* gives an error? what did you type to cause the error? what were you hoping to achieve?
Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly (to behonest I wasn't sure what I'd done myself). As I had only just put the OS on I just reinstaled it and started again. Basicly I'm not getting the right screen resolutions but that howto should fix it.
While we're on the subject, can anyone tell me if there is a limewire equivalent for linux?
Last edited by BlindMelon7; 08-10-2006 at 12:17 AM.
With love and many thanks,
Melons
LimeWire? I presume you mean the:
If you're looking for a Linux equivalent of LimeWire, try... LimeWire (my emphasis):peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Gnutella network.
Unfortunately, to use the RPM you'll need to use alien. However, a quick look on Wikipedia finds this: Gtk-gnutella. It's in the Dapper repositories, so getting hold of it shouldn't be a problem.To facilitate installation for casual users, installation packages are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and in the RPM format for Linux
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
Thanks (I'm rather new to this whole "clever" thing
With love and many thanks,
Melons
Is alien an application because i cant find it in the applications dropdown.
With love and many thanks,
Melons
http://www.frostwire.com/
download tarball and extract
scratch that, open terminal and type
Code:sudo aptitude install alien sudo alien -i LimeWire*.rpm
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