Thread: linux install problem

Another successful linux thread.

Beats the hell out of all those "how do I update?", "how do i crack windows?" threads

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Originally Posted by NickA

Another successful linux thread.

Beats the hell out of all those "how do I update?", "how do i crack windows?" threads

Yeah, and I did it quicker than Nooners even with the DVD read problem....
Must admit I did learn a lot from Nooners thread though.

the folks here led me to the right barn and all I had to do was find the correct stall.

E. G.

OK, so this is not a problem but:



I'm liking this set up and want to "open" the rest of the drive to Linux use. Rather than get my balls in a wringer I'm looking for those with expertise to walk me through the process so that the whole drive is Linux.

the above is what I get with gparted open.

thanks

E. G.

Originally Posted by El Gibbon

I'm liking this set up and want to "open" the rest of the drive to Linux use.

I'll tell you if you give me the name of the chick.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by El Gibbon

I'm liking this set up and want to "open" the rest of the drive to Linux use.

I'll tell you if you give me the name of the chick.

Ransom eh? Widescreen wallpaper download

Lots of these




E. G.

Since you only installed it a short while ago, it might be easier to reformat the whole drive and then re-install linux and set up the partitions how you want.

^yeah and after two time you can help all your friends set their machiens up you'll be POPULAR

Is that KDE4 you're using EG?

ubuntu 8 something

thinking of just mucking around and I flock it up its a re-install
but getting it done will keep from doing all the stuff I've already
accomplished to get it where I want it.

Maybe I'll sit on it for a few beers tonight and tackle it in the AM

already deleted the partition I THOUGHT had the windoz on it and it
still boots.

Oh, Well.

E. G.

After flocking around all day the drive is a mish mash and now I want to delete everything and format it....

Gparted won't let me do it

Have read all kinds of shit on the web about partitioning etc. but they all have to do with keeping an existing OS intact. I want a 'clean slate' and then do a re-install.

Any ideas?

E. G.

Start over and repartition during the install

Thanks FF. when I try the 'stick' it just boots me into the loaded version. So am downloading Kubuntuand will try that distro. Or I'll do another. whatever. just want a clean machine. lol anal I know.\

E. G.

A bit of an update so you can all laugh your asses off.

I flocked around with partitioning until the drive is TOTALLY screwed....

Learned a couple of things.... don't flock with the GRUB!

anyway I've downloaded and used Gparted (Live CD) and Super Grub (Live CD) still I've managed to flock everything up to a faretheewell.

S00000000 Now that I know what I want and basically how to get it without flocking too much with partitions I'm reloading XP (that will wipe everything).

Then I'll go back and re-load Ubuntu and all will be rosy, I hope lol

Turns out that the biggest problem was that by the time I got the swap partition installed it was #7 and none of the partition programs liked that at all. So re-sizing or moving was almost undoable...

Most all of the programs for working with this stuff on the web that I've found ASSUME you still have a windows partition it seems. So, I"ll give em one.

Maybe the clumsy way of doing it but I'm tired of dicking around with it.

E. G.

As a semi famous radio personality in the states used to say, "and now for the rest of the story"!

Did as described above and re-installed windows on a 20 gig portion of the HD. Guess where that put me. Yep right back where I started with no joy in loading Ubuntu. Even the stick thing wouldn't work as I just could not get the machine to boot off of it. Don't know what I did the first time to get it to work but now, nothing doing.

I had downloaded and tried the following "live" Cds to about the same result:
Mandriva
Suse 10
Ubuntu 8.04
Fedora Core 5

No joy on any with some similar error msgs. the (initramfs) thing on Ubuntu and 'cannot find device'/'cannot write to device' or some like error on all the rest.

Hmmmm something about this machine that the linux kernel really doesn't like. I downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 from a torrent site, did the ISO and bingo booted right up in live mode. Once up and running there was an [ install?] icon on the desktop so did.

After install it booted right up and went looking for updates. Downloaded updates and the next screen asked If I would like to upgrade to 8.04. Did that and now we'll see what happens.

Seems to me there is something with this motherboard (Acer Aspire) that the new kernel really doesn't like in the boot mode, or, maybe its the drive configuration, whatever it seems to be a hardware problem rather than software/firmware. That doesn't explain however, the inability to boot from a live CD (where no changes are supposed to be made to the original machine configuration).

During the cleanup the screen was in terminal mode and I did see something similare to > initramfs boot/ init****** (went so fast I didn't read the whole line).

The moral of the story is, (if you have two machines) don't be tentative with any of this crap. I did more flokking around with boot menus, bios, partitioning etc. than I ever wanted to know about. Hell even the bios has a 'get out of jail free card' - F9.

So now in Hardy Heron and life is good.

Thanks to all that participated in this muddling around by a computer novice who aint to bad in running applications

There are a couple of programs out there that will help you out and I recommend you get them and keep them handy. Gparted and Super Grub, both are "live" and handy when you get your ass in a wringer.

One added note, if you go to the various forums most questions are answered by really knowledgeable folks that have no idea how to describe things to anyone other than another geek. lol It takes forever to decipher a lot of their advice and possible scenarios.

E. G.