Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux
Thanks for your reply. I will try to follow your suggestion Regards, Mervyn Kevin Shackleton wrote: To flesh out more on what Richard said - if you can boot up on a "live" cd, you have no hardware problems. You can see hardware problems in Linux that are ignored in Windows. If you have two HDDs, you could try separately plugging them in so you can set up one OS on one and another OS on another with no cross-interference. But to be honest - stick with one Linux distro and immerse yourself in the learning curve of not being in the Microsoft environment. Get the rest of it right later on. Cheers, Kevin. On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 14:41 +1100, Mervyn wrote: *Problem with Loading Linux* I profess my ignorance when it comes to computer complexities, although I do teach other “oldies” how to use computers. I am having problems loading Linux onto one of my computers. I purchased a new computer and decided to dual boot the old computer to use to receive emails etc. on the Linux OS. I cannot get it to work. I have dual booted other computers; My new computer and the laptop have Win XP and SUSE Linux. I have resurrected a Celeron 700 and installed Ubuntu on one drive and Win Me and SUSE on the other drive On the problem computer, I now cannot even install Linux as a stand alone OS. Ubuntu stops loading early, SUSE appears to load but will not start The Linux loader will allow me to select windows which will boot successfully, but the Linux will not complete the boot up. At one stage even the Windows would not boot and I had to invoke the”FIXMBR” command from windows recovery, I suspect this may have contributed to my problem, Any suggestions? Regards, Mervyn Crawford -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux
Thanks for the reply. I have just booted an old Ubuntu live CD. I will try the install version now. Regards, Mervyn Richard Heycock wrote: Try booting a "live" cd and make sure that works. rgh On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:41:42PM +1100, Mervyn wrote: *Problem with Loading Linux* I profess my ignorance when it comes to computer complexities, although I do teach other “oldies” how to use computers. I am having problems loading Linux onto one of my computers. I purchased a new computer and decided to dual boot the old computer to use to receive emails etc. on the Linux OS. I cannot get it to work. I have dual booted other computers; My new computer and the laptop have Win XP and SUSE Linux. I have resurrected a Celeron 700 and installed Ubuntu on one drive and Win Me and SUSE on the other drive On the problem computer, I now cannot even install Linux as a stand alone OS. Ubuntu stops loading early, SUSE appears to load but will not start The Linux loader will allow me to select windows which will boot successfully, but the Linux will not complete the boot up. At one stage even the Windows would not boot and I had to invoke the”FIXMBR” command from windows recovery, I suspect this may have contributed to my problem, Any suggestions? Regards, Mervyn Crawford -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux
Try booting a "live" cd and make sure that works. rgh On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:41:42PM +1100, Mervyn wrote: > *Problem with Loading Linux* > > I profess my ignorance when it comes to computer complexities, although I > do teach other “oldies” how to use computers. > > I am having problems loading Linux onto one of my computers. I purchased a > new computer and decided to dual boot the old computer to use to receive > emails etc. on the Linux OS. I cannot get it to work. I have dual booted > other computers; My new computer and the laptop have Win XP and SUSE Linux. > I have resurrected a Celeron 700 and installed Ubuntu on one drive and Win > Me and SUSE on the other drive > > On the problem computer, I now cannot even install Linux as a stand alone > OS. Ubuntu stops loading early, SUSE appears to load but will not start The > Linux loader will allow me to select windows which will boot successfully, > but the Linux will not complete the boot up. At one stage even the Windows > would not boot and I had to invoke the”FIXMBR” command from windows > recovery, I suspect this may have contributed to my problem, Any > suggestions? > > Regards, > > Mervyn Crawford > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] installing linux
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 19:19 -0800, ang ang wrote: > Although i am new to Linux thus far i quite enjoy the > program however i have had some difficulty installing > the full version on my clevo Pentium 4 laptop. Have you tried searching Google for your laptop? In particular check out www.linux-laptop.net and this page looks useful: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/clevo.html Good luck! -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] installing linux
> "ang" == ang ang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ang> Although i am new to Linux thus far i quite enjoy the program ang> however i have had some difficulty installing the full version on ang> my clevo Pentium 4 laptop. Currently i am using a 30 day trial I installed Debian on my Clevo 5600P. I had no problems. It was two years ago now, but was pretty straightforward as I recall. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux on laptop
Sounds weird. In case it helps, my experience was XP on a laptop, installed Mandrake, mandrake re-sized the XP partion to 1/2 the disk, wouldn't go lower. Mandrake installed AOK. Perhaps MS have altered things with later versions to stop dual boot but I doubt it. Perhaps the disk files are at all ends of the XP partion preventing a resize. You used to have to run a windows re-jig of some sort to get the files re-organised then a re-partion should work more effectively. With windows file systems, all bets are off. Someone else definately knows more about this than me. Windows is fading from memory somewhat. It's been a while. BTW your computer clock is wrong or you are posting from the future. If the latter, can you tell me who's going to win race no. 3 at Randwick today? ;-) HTH Stu On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:47, vladimir wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just bought a new LG LS50-6 laptop and want to set it up as dual > boot winxp/redhat. I installed Partition Magic 8 on the hd and > thought that resizing the partition would be easy, so that i can > install RH. However, PM wouldn't allow the resizing or creating of any > partitions on the primary C:\ NTFS partition. As i understand, all > the install/rescue files, including WinXP installation is on some sort > of "invisible" partition, which doesn't show in the explorer and can > only be accessed to re-install WinXP. Partition magic doesn't > show/recognize it either. When attempting to install RH and error msg > appears : "Boot table on hda unreadable". The option i am given is to > delete data on existing partition, reformat and proceed with > installation, which is not what i would like to do. When using the > supplied rescue disk, options are pretty much the same. I'd rather > not do this, if there is another solution. Any suggestions would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Vlad > > __ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux on a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT
$quoted_author = "Xavier Elizalde" ; > > I have an old laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT, which I would like to > install Linux on. If tried many different distributions, but they can't > seem to handle the display/audio hardware properly. a quick google search turned up a list of the full specs: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/spec.php3?model=PA1229U- looks like x needs the 'chips' driver: http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/chips.4.html and for sound the 'snd-cd4232' driver: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?module=cs4232 marty -- Now this love struck romeo, He sings the streets a serenade Now he's laying everybody low, He's got a love song he made He finds a convenient streetlight, And he'll step out of the shade And he'll say something like, You and me, babe, how 'bout it? "Romeo & Juliet" - Indigo Girls -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing linux on Sun Blade 100 - firmware password ??
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:43 pm, Matt Hyne wrote: > Folks, we inherited a Sun Blade 100 which we are going to "linux" but > because it has an existing FW password we cannot get bay further. > > Does anyone know how to reset the FW password on this box. I don't care > about any of the existing settings. > > Matt I can't remember off the top of my head how to do this, but I do remember doing it before (on a E420R and a Netra T1 - the procedure was VERY similar for both)... try http://docs.sun.com/ and maybe http://sunsolve.sun.com/ HTH James -- Fortune cookies says: You would if you could but you can't so you won't. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux from USB-CDROM
At 12:47 19/03/02 +1100, Andy Eager wrote: >Hi all, > >Has anyone ever installed Linux from a USB CDROM? > >I have a machine that supports USB CDROM boot which I have duly selected. >The machine boots OK from the USB CDROM but then fails to recognise itself >(using RedHat 7.2 install disks). It seems to be registering the usb >device ok and installs the scsi emulator, but then fails to recognise the >very media from which it booted!! Ihave the same (unresolved) problem on a Libretto with PCMCIA floppy and no CD - it boots the first floppy (SuSE 7.3), and then prompts you to insert the second so it can load the PCMCIA drivers to allow it to read floppies... I'll leave it to you to work out the humor / logic in that scenario... I'd suggest you make the installation disk set, oncluding the modules disk, and start from there - at least then you have a fighting chance of getting Linux to recognise the USB CD by loading the driver from the floppy. Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux with XP
At 12:35 21/11/01 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: >If anyone has any war stories on split partitioning XP (either version) in >order to install Linux, I would like to hear them. > >One thing I would be interested in knowing is whether the XP activation >has to be re-run if you split partition. XP activation...*cough*... What's that ?...:-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
