Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro  Oct 6th, 2009 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 933 Hello,
Do you have any linux live CD's?
I think OpenSuse's disk may have a restore GRUB option. |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,145 Hello,
If you boot using the CD when you start the installation a partitioning tool should come up during the process. I would create a partition of around 16GB for the installation of Ubuntu and... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Sep 15th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,155 Did you try the mouse when using a live CD? Have you tried a newer or older version of Ubuntu?
Do you have a USB mouse to try?
Perhaps Ubuntu doesn't have a driver for the touch pad an older... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 21st, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,848 You will also want to choose a linux distribution. If it is your first time using linux i would recommend Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/). |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 707 Hello,
Are you able to use the partition manager in either of those Linux distro's?
How are your partitions laid out? e.g, 4 primary partitions or 3 primary 1 logical etc...
If you can try... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 29th, 2009 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 3,141 I like Ubuntu too. Its my favorite flavor of Linux.#
Try MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html). |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 3,141 They don't make dreamweaver or photoshop for linux.
But you can use them using Wine (http://www.winehq.org/) or find an alternative. |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 547 If you want to try ubuntu I would remove the usb hard drive and install it on the hard drive.
Use the live cd to shrink the windows partition, then create two new partitions one swap and one for... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,902 I don't think there is any mate, I use an intermediate partition to transfer files both ways. You can have a partition of NTFS or FAT32 i think. |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 656 Hello what version of linux are you after?
Have you considered buying off the internet like of amazon.com?
You can request a free CD from Ubuntu but it can take upto 10 weeks, I don't know if... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 9th, 2009 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 2,049 Can you verify the CD please.
Download ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/). Install it.
Run it. Click on verify disk.
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Then select the source CD.
Then select the image file to verify... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 7th, 2009 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 2,049 I have the previous version of ubuntu and all i had to do was put the cd in and it automatically booted without having to press any keys.
did you do verify the file you downloaded by checksum?
... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 8th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,215 You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper.
I have seen a similar situation here:... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 2nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,215 Have you looked at NDISwrapper? |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 25th, 2009 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 2,449 Can't you configure the grub manually. I know OpenSuse lets you configure the GRUB. If you install this "belinux" you may be able to reconfigure the grub and reformat the partition if it goes wrong.... |
