Please assist me in Linux Installation.

[.Maleficus.]

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Edit: I will read the thread before I post...

About the installer: Did you completely remove the old install, or are you trying to install over it? If you didn't remove it, do so, and try the install again. If you did remove it and it doesn't work, I suggest you try a newer release (Dapper, Edgy).

For XP: Is this a Grub error? Do you use Grub? I have a feeling you do, so you may need to edit the config file (I think Ubuntu uses menu.lst for it). When you get a working install (or boot the command line) in the terminal or booted command line, type "gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst". You should either get a new window with a text editor and the config file, or have it just appear on screen (depending on if it was accessed through X or not). For the Windows option, it should have something like this.

title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

That should tell it to boot Windows (if it even was a Grub error) and if that doesn't work, I don't know.

[Drew]

It's aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!!!!!!!!!

When you say it hangs, have you tried switching to another virtual terminal using Ctrl-Alt-F2 ?
That will tell you if it really has hung or it's just the x server.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Linux n00b, remember.

If that's the case, you'll need to get your hands dirty with some command line action, and a text based editor...

Sounds like fun.......

Is this a Grub error? Do you use Grub?

Looked like it for a long time, and I couldn't download the SuperGrubDisk file. I thought I was knackered. I reinstalled Grub from the live disk, but nothing happened. I was bummed, I was sure I'd sussed it.

Don't know how I managed it, but I buggered up the partitioning somewhere along the line (or the installer did).

I trawled ubuntuforums for hours, and found a fix that told me to reinstall, manually partition 3 partitions of different sizes, what to mount them to, and how they should be used.
However... they didn't mention whether to make them primary or logical...so I made them all primary, and when it couldnt find an active partittion I booted with the Me boot disk, ran fdisk and set partition 1 as active.

Et voila!

No doubt there will be future issues, but for now, thanks a million guys, and +reps all round!

Now it's just a case of having a play and figuring out how Ubuntu works..... then an upgrade to the latest release.

Drew

[.Maleficus.]

Congrats on the working system. You'll find Ubuntu much more fun than Windows ever was. The Ubuntu Forums are a great place to find info.

[Drum Thumper]

Gratz man, glad you got it working finally!

[Drew]

Just upgraded (sucessfully) from 5.10 Breezy Badger to 6.06 Dapper Drake without any problems.

Dont think I'll bother going to 6.10 Edgy just yet... took about 3 hours to go to Dapper....

[Drum Thumper]

Yeah some of those install times are nuts. I've got SUSe 10.2 on my fileserver and it took almost a full day to download everything.

[Drew]

OMFG

Happy with 3 hours now and will stop complaining.....

[Airbozo]

You guys are wimps! My first Gentoo install took 3 days! About one whole day just to get things going, hands on the keyboard...

[Drew]

OK, OK I was spoiled by Windows :p

Now I can't install flash..what a ****in n00b, eh?

[Airbozo]

OK, OK I was spoiled by Windows

Now I can't install flash..what a ****in n00b, eh?

No, noobs don't even try...

I have had some difficulty installing flash on a couple of linux boxes. Had to do with some libraries not being where they were supposed to be.