graphical mode?

are you installing server editions of the distribution? because most sever editions aren't going to ship with a desktop manager.

have you tried other programs?

my guess would be you are hitting a limit, it may be software or hardware. obviously if it is a limit in your hardware (memory), there is not much you can do, unless...

so what crash applies if you are willing to move to a different distro. if you want to stick to your distro, you should look into finding out the actual device, not the laptop model.

generally...

if you have no audio at all, software is not going to solve the problem. the usual suspects are drivers and the system configuration (e.g. master volume is 0).

Ok, but which connection is the Internet connected to?

It should be a virtual box option, you should be able to select network devices for the guest.

how does your host computer connect to the internet? ethernet or wireless?

what i assume is that it uses wireless, and if so you need to make sure the guest machine has access to the wireless card.

ok, but did you delete the partition, create the partition, format, and install? Or did you just install into the partition (which should still do a format, but it may have done something wrong).
...

what steps did you take to install it?

my guess would be something from a previous install is lingering? (i.e. did you format the partition?, etc...)

not really, you just need a "server" edition of a OS. BUT you still need computers for each user, unless they are sitting in front of the same computer.

using only a monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

what are these devices going to be connected to?

virtualisation allows you to have multiple "virtual" operating systems on the single physical...

yeh, I am well aware of that fact. i admit it is quite closed-minded of me, but when I use a lot of google products, search comes naturally.

Personally, I am a Google fan, so I won't be giving Bing any chances either.

to get the "standard" version, you need to install the OS onto your disk. live CD is good as a trial, and it should have an option to install it if you like it.

perhaps you want to start with a programming language, not the actual operating system.

Virtual PC doesn't support linux as far as I am aware. Perhaps you are better off looking into VMWare.

I think I remember seeing something like this for me too. However, I don't think this actually stopped my microphone from working. Do you need to enable the settings each time for skype to function...

I'll have a look tomorrow (if I remember), but there should be a separate volume for your mic, which you will need to increase accordingly. I am refering to alsamixer here.

He is talking about drivers. Generally linux is not supported by hardware vendors and so the drivers are maintained by people in the open-source community. Drivers for windows do not work in linux,...

did you change your alsamixer setting to increase the volume? I think the command is "alsamixer -V all".

you won't be able to just install it over fedora and save all your files in the process (unless the two products are intertwined in some special way). what you will instead need to do, is backup your...

as i said, i wrote about this on my blog, I use the service at planetdomain.com

1. you need to register a domain, but this is not inside of ubuntu, you need to do this through a service.
2. to resolve the domain to your server, you then need to set up a name server.
3....

seeing the content of the CD doesn't mean it is correct. is it auto-starting? because if it isn't there is probably an issue with the CD.

to be honest, it sounds like the cd you are using is not the ubuntu cd. if you load the cd while vista is booted normally, does it come up with the live cd menu?

by "hdd" i am referring to your...

is it even trying to boot from the CD? or does it go to your hdd straight away?

are your keystrokes actually registering?

I assume it is booting into vista, and not the vista setup (because...

this link won't help with the GUI, but you should be able to see all the files through terminal: http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Root

I remember I used to login as root on ubuntu, I think if you set...

It is going to differ depending on your wireless device. On my laptop, the wireless worked straight away (Ubuntu 8.10).

from what i've read you already have fedora installed? is there some reason this doesn't satisfy your requirements?

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as long as you have your bootloader configured correctly it should detect all OSs fine. i am no expert on this, so i wouldn't know how you would go about this specifically, but i would nearly assume...

way to bump a super old thread, lol.

I personally use ubuntu. There should be tools in xp and fedora which would allow you to partition your hard disk. It should also be possible while installing Belinix.

In my case, I had my HDD...

unfortunately i don't the specific utility you are talking about, but until somebody can answer you, you can just google "man ...." as most man pages you will want are hosted somewhere. there will be...