I think Linux hates me. :(

[digitalwanderer]

I think my major problem right now is 3 HDs; 2 IDE and one SATA. (I think, might be 2 SATA & 1 IDE...it's been a while.)

I will try it again, and I know you guys will help and I really do appreciate it...I just need to take a step back for a few days.

Got two friends machines to fix, easy stuff. Just upgrades and winXP installs, right up my alley to get me geek juices flowing right again.

 

[Frank]

I think my major problem right now is 3 HDs; 2 IDE and one SATA. (I think, might be 2 SATA & 1 IDE...it's been a while.)

I will try it again, and I know you guys will help and I really do appreciate it...I just need to take a step back for a few days.

Got two friends machines to fix, easy stuff. Just upgrades and winXP installs, right up my alley to get me geek juices flowing right again.

No worries. Do as you like.

 

[the maddman]

I think my major problem right now is 3 HDs; 2 IDE and one SATA. (I think, might be 2 SATA & 1 IDE...it's been a while.)

I will try it again, and I know you guys will help and I really do appreciate it...I just need to take a step back for a few days.

Got two friends machines to fix, easy stuff. Just upgrades and winXP installs, right up my alley to get me geek juices flowing right again.

When you are first getting started with Linux, it's best to start with a very simple system. If you're just trying to learn it, VMWare is always an option. That way, if you blow up anything, you can just revert a snapshot

Things could be worse, first time I tried to learn linux, I had a set of RedHat 4.2 disks to install from. Of course I wasn't aware the RH 4.2 installer is broken. Talk about frustration.

 

[digitalwanderer]

I'm almost thinking I might be a LOT better off installing it on my wife's rig first to play with:

Blue: Tuly 1.4Ghz, TUSL2-C, 512MBcas2, 6800GT, ATi TV-wonder VE, TBSC, DVD, 10/100NIC, 60GB

I think it'd be a whole lot simpler for both me and Linux if I started with that one.

 

[the maddman]

I'm almost thinking I might be a LOT better off installing it on my wife's rig first to play with:


I think it'd be a whole lot simpler for both me and Linux if I started with that one.

Anything with a single hard drive that doesn't contain anything you wouldn't mind losing Just as one little hint, when you're setting up dual boot, always install grub into the linux boot partition and not the MBR. Then all that matters is that the linux partition is active.

 

[SPM]

I did reburn a disk and got the same results, and I'm pretty sure my CD is fine.

Did the rig they tested have one or two X1800GTOs in it?

One, but modern video cards are supposed to work with multiple cards. Taking one out to see if it will work with one might be a good idea though.

 

[SPM]

Anything with a single hard drive that doesn't contain anything you wouldn't mind losing Just as one little hint, when you're setting up dual boot, always install grub into the linux boot partition and not the MBR. Then all that matters is that the linux partition is active.

That is what you would do for chain booting - ie. your intital bootloader has a menu item that takes you to a second menu that takes you to Linux (when configuring the first bootloader, you just treat the second one installed in a partition the same way you would treat Windows). However you still need the first bootloader to install in the MBR unless you intend to boot off a rescue disk.

 

[the maddman]

That is what you would do for chain booting - ie. your intital bootloader has a menu item that takes you to a second menu that takes you to Linux (when configuring the first bootloader, you just treat the second one installed in a partition the same way you would treat Windows). However you still need the first bootloader to install in the MBR unless you intend to boot off a rescue disk.

If you install grub/lilo into the linux partition, then if you reinstall windows (which overwrites the MBR) all you have to do is make the linux partition active and you can dual boot again. I haven't setup dual boot in years though, I usually go through periods where I'm in just one OS for months. Last night I was trying to install OS/2 Warp 4.

 

[Npl]

Ready to take your geek powers to the next level?

I stumbled across this Thread about installing Ubuntu 7.04 on PCs with X**** Cards

 

[digitalwanderer]

Ready to take your geek powers to the next level?

I stumbled across this Thread about installing Ubuntu 7.04 on PCs with X**** Cards

No, please..not again. I don't think I can handle another failure.