Quick suggestion:
Maybe you should, I dunno, try using Linux when attempting to research it for a project?
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Quick suggestion:
Maybe you should, I dunno, try using Linux when attempting to research it for a project?
i cant cos while trying to install the ubuntu version from a cd, my pc crashed
i dono if i did something wrong
now im using my work pc
can you load ubuntu on an ordinary machine without uninstalling windows?
thats what i tried to do
i dono if i did something wrong
now im using my work pc
can you load ubuntu on an ordinary machine without uninstalling windows?
thats what i tried to do
thanx
will DEF do that
so.....I was told about this
Post Install Blues: So the shiny new Linux boots up, and starts blinking and then gives an error saying X could not start, and shows a login prompt. Well, alright, we remember login prompts from the days of dial-up connections, and shell access. We login, but now what? What do we do? How can we fix it? This is our only machine, so we can't look up the Internet on it. We wish that these downloadable distributions came with a printable manual so we could at least have a clue about what it is we should do. Or else, we get some absurdly low resolution like 640x480 on the nice big 17" monitor. We try right-clicking and going to properties, but there is no guarantee that this will work. We have an NVIDIA graphics card, and in every free distribution we have tried, despite downloading and installing the drivers, which in itself is a mammoth task, (telinit 3, anyone? for a novice?), we have had to edit the X config file by hand. Why is this necessary? Why can't the installer do this?
will DEF do that
so.....I was told about this
Post Install Blues: So the shiny new Linux boots up, and starts blinking and then gives an error saying X could not start, and shows a login prompt. Well, alright, we remember login prompts from the days of dial-up connections, and shell access. We login, but now what? What do we do? How can we fix it? This is our only machine, so we can't look up the Internet on it. We wish that these downloadable distributions came with a printable manual so we could at least have a clue about what it is we should do. Or else, we get some absurdly low resolution like 640x480 on the nice big 17" monitor. We try right-clicking and going to properties, but there is no guarantee that this will work. We have an NVIDIA graphics card, and in every free distribution we have tried, despite downloading and installing the drivers, which in itself is a mammoth task, (telinit 3, anyone? for a novice?), we have had to edit the X config file by hand. Why is this necessary? Why can't the installer do this?
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Most modern Linux distributions allow you to boot from the CD and use that for testing purposes.
You can also use that as an "emergency boot" feature should you gank your current install and it won't boot.
You can also use that as an "emergency boot" feature should you gank your current install and it won't boot.
sorry if i sound stupid
but im just wondering
is the above quote a solution to the problem of "Wireless freezing kernel on laptop at irregular intervals"
chiskop
Executive Member
shy, its confusing because you haven't used it.
rpms/debs are not "installation" methods. YUM (AFAIK) uses rpms.
Please, please look at wubi or virtualisation, then come back when your questions are more than cut/pastes from your previous threads.
rpms/debs are not "installation" methods. YUM (AFAIK) uses rpms.
Please, please look at wubi or virtualisation, then come back when your questions are more than cut/pastes from your previous threads.
If the root password is not set up yet, then anyone can sudo passwd and change the password (it will ask for the user pwd and then the root pwd and confirm root pwd).
If, however, the root password is already set, then "sudo root passwd" will first ask you for the current root password before allowing you to change it... Works the same as in Windows.