CMN goes Linux

**Marmite the Dog** · 01-09-2008, 11:21 PM

Sorry. I meant to say that my CD is first in the pecking order.

**lom** · 01-09-2008, 11:43 PM

Then boot from your Win XP install CD, just to see if you get the "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt. If you do then your CD-drive is ok.

You may have forgotten to tick "Make bootable CD" in your burner program..
Some programs detect automatically that it should do a bootable CD, others don't.

**Marmite the Dog** · 01-09-2008, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by lom

You may have forgotten to tick "Make bootable CD" in your burner program..

I'll take a look to see it my ISO burning prog has that option. Cheers.

Originally Posted by lom

Then boot from your Win XP install CD, just to see if you get the "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt. If you do then your CD-drive is ok.

I'll try that too.

I just want to get rid of Windows. It's now decided that half my RAM isn't there. When I took a chip out recently, it said "oh, you've only got 256 now - is that kosher?" and it was. But when I put it back in, it said nowt and still only uses one side. It does me 'ed in.

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-09-2008, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by lom

You may have forgotten to tick "Make bootable CD" in your burner program..

This is only an option if you are compiling a new disc, rather than burning an ISO image. As the ISO is designed to be bootable, it makes sense.

At the moment, the laptop is checking the installation (and has been for a while now). The disc light is flashing away, so I'll leave it for a few hours if necessary.

**mrsquirrel** · 02-09-2008, 12:31 PM

Well that's Acer for you.

Pure shite.

**Butterfly** · 02-09-2008, 01:29 PM

^ told him already, he wouldn't listen the poor fool !!!

ACER are for webboys and English teachers !!!

**mrsquirrel** · 02-09-2008, 02:13 PM

^^^ yeah MTD quit QQ

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-09-2008, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Well that's Acer for you.

It's a Compaq.

Anyway, I reset to default the BIOS stuff, and it now boots from disc, but it gets a Kernal Panic if I try to either install it or run Dban. Just doing a memory test and there's red shit everywhere.

I may as well stick with bloody Windows. It might be shite, but at least it worked.

**Butterfly** · 02-09-2008, 02:44 PM

^ looks like hardware problem, maybe time to buy a new PC ? I would recommend buying a Mac, as you seem to completely hopeless when it comes to computers

**lom** · 02-09-2008, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Just doing a memory test and there's red shit everywhere.

Probably related to the problem you mentioned regarding a memory module not appearing.
You blamed Windows for it, but Windows only knows about memory that it has been told of by BIOS. And if BIOS can't find all of it..

Run your memory modules one by one to see which one has problems.

**Property** · 02-09-2008, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

you can get something half decent for less than 13,000 at the moment.

define half decent

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-09-2008, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by lom

Probably related to the problem you mentioned regarding a memory module not appearing. You blamed Windows for it, but Windows only knows about memory that it has been told of by BIOS. And if BIOS can't find all of it..

I fixed the memory problem before I ran the memory test.

At the end of the day, I don't think this laptop is going to run Linux. If Dban can load, then nothing will. It's no big deal, as I don't use this laptop, that's why I wanted to try it.

**lom** · 02-09-2008, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

At the end of the day, I don't think this laptop is going to run Linux.

Maybe it's not old enough to be supported

I was gonna build myself a linux media center server/client (Ubuntu based) so bought a new
hi-tech motherboard and graphic card for that purpose.
I'll have to put them in a drawer for a couple of years until some of the linux volunteer software creators have found enough time to write drivers for them.

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-09-2008, 05:35 PM

It's about 4 years old (or maybe 3). Compaq Presario 2800 with a P4 1.5Gb.

I thought it would be poifect for the job. I suppose I'll have to continue my quest of trawling through the millions of posts on various forums where other people can't get it to work either...

**ChiangMai noon** · 02-09-2008, 05:37 PM

worked on my machine.

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-09-2008, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

worked on my machine.

Maybe I should just wait until Christmas and use Frankie's help then?

**lom** · 02-09-2008, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

worked on my machine.

Yeah, and how annoying do you think it is to know that?

It proves my theory though that it has to be real old shit in order to be linux compatible..

**ChiangMai noon** · 02-09-2008, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Maybe I should just wait until Christmas and use Frankie's help then?

jardine helped me out.

a real smooth install it was.

took about 10 minutes.

Originally Posted by lom

It proves my theory though that it has to be real old shit in order to be linux compatible..

you really should be banned from this thread.

**Butterfly** · 02-09-2008, 06:08 PM

I bet KNOPPIX LIVE would work right away, a P4 is quite recent and decent

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-09-2008, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I bet KNOPPIX LIVE would work right away, a P4 is quite recent and decent

Well, let's see shall we, as nothing else is working.

**RigPig** · 02-09-2008, 07:33 PM

Gee boys I couldn't read all of this thread I had to skip to the end. I am running Ubuntu and I have never had any problems. It has a partition manager so you don't need partition magic. I dual booted mine at first but have got rid of the windows partition or I should say just use it as another partition on the drive. I did delete all the rubbish and then re sized the partition. You can even run it from the CD (slow though cause it keeps reading from it) or run it under Windows I believe as a virtual machine. No virus (that can hurt it). Some of the things in the new Firefox take a bit of getting used to but hey if you run it it is the latest. Open office is easier to use and does more than I need. If I can help I will but I am no geek Tony

**El Gibbon** · 03-09-2008, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I bet KNOPPIX LIVE would work right away, a P4 is quite recent and decent

Well, let's see shall we, as nothing else is working.

Apparently the KNOPPIX LIVE DC is used frequently to get a machine into the Linux mode so that you can then go and dig around and find the problem causing the install to fail. I did it when trying to get Ubuntu up, sadly there was nothing I could do about the problem I faced - some kind of ram issue that was specific to the Acer I was trying to mount it on.

Ended up installing an older version of Ubuntu (7 something) which worked fine and then did the automatic update, took some time but works a charm.

E. G.

**Agent_Smith** · 08-09-2008, 01:52 PM

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and my update manager is "encouraging" me to update to 8.04

CMn, or anyone else, are you running this version and are there any problems? Will all my files be safe if I update? This version is running just fine and I'd hate to screw something up by updating--you know, if it ain't broke etc...

**ChiangMai noon** · 08-09-2008, 02:17 PM

I'm using 8.04.

according to people that have upgrade, they didn't see any advantage, I'd stick with what you have if you are happy with it.

I'm happy enough with my version but it's the first ubuntu system I have used.

**Marmite the Dog** · 08-09-2008, 10:31 PM

I've got a copy of Knoppix, but little time at the moment, so I'll give it a go in the future. Thanks for all the help. Fuck you Butterfly :)

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