For one thing, redhat 9 is very very old and not supported any more.

What version of ubuntu are you trying?

Yeah i think you type "linux rescue" at the boot: prompt on the cd.

That will give you a console where you can chroot into your system and rerun grubinstall.

Multimedia codec support is a pain in the ass under linux (and in most countries its technically illegal to watch most store-baught DVDs under it)



Did you botther to read the post? he was...

Slackware?

Its the most unix-like version of linux
Most config is text file based, and no easy package management

As i said, i dont think belenix will let you

I dont even know if uses grub (may use btx as its UNIX based, not linux based)

belenix is pretty buggy, its solaris based so i think it uses a different bootloader and/or filesystem to linux

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.10/release/

There isnt a liveCD. Only the alternate or server CDs.

If it has a problem mounting, try the bleeding edge (beta) edition, its prelease...

Compile it from the source there

Alternatively on fedora use your package manager to install an rpm of it from somewhere, or use yum to download it

Well it cant run office or visual studio
And it cant run the vast majority of games

so therefore i would not say it is very good

WINE isnt very good, it will only run fairly basic windows programs, and not very well

put the content in /var/www usually

Works fine for me on VPC 2007 SP1

Make the VM, and at the top click CD then Capture ISO Image.

Point it at the saved .iso file. Click open. It should then boot off the cd no problem.

Ubuntu will run extremely slowly, if at all on that hardware. That machine needs a ram upgrade to say 256 though, then it will be fine for a very light window manager or command line operation as a...

One without a GUI. The CPU and Ram will be too slow for a decent GUI.

The hdd is no problem. A web server with a CLI will use 300-700mb. Neither is the vid card.

If you intend to run MySQL you...

I get a similar issue on a lenovo c200 laptop. Ive been reporting it since like 2007 and no one is listening

marked as solved.

:)

i added something to each

hence my comment about DEL

yeah one of the F keys or DEL

yeah, install KDE and run kdevelop in there

Is there a MAC filter?

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

this will flush your systems package cache (the zero packages to be installed/ access denied messages signal a possible...

ive never really used sage, i was just throwing it into the pile, but i know its an ms product for accounants

you like MS money?
Sage?
KMyMoney?

debian is good i like it

Opensuse and Fedora generally tend to be slow.

I like debian, if you a network connection via ethernet, just dowwnload the <200mb netinstall image and it will download what you need (choose...

they should get it, linux apps run about the same for me on freebsd as they do in debian, in fact.

How come FreeBSD can run linux apps natively

there is definately more linux software than mac software

There are 10s of thousdands of free softwares you can get by download. You can view and download them by opening the program "Synaptic Package Manager" or by clicking add/remove programs

For...

256 apparently . i told him that a livecd would run slow on that and that it would probably be usable when installed but would slow down considerably with a few windows opened

i think you can boot the floppy then remove ot and swap it for the cd drive when it asks you?

and yes linux will get all your drivers (usually). Only exceptions are usually Nvidia/ATI graphics...

Sounds like you broke your Xserver codnfiguration file by changing the res. Go to a text console by holding down control+alt + f2 and then use dpkg to reconfigure your X server.



sudo...

thats what i said.

IDE and SATA are hd(x). Scsi is sd(x)

Ive noticed that some flash keys come up as sd(x)

i meant to say that i had a Realtek wireless card. Are you running ubuntu 6.06 LTS or 7.04 Fiesty ?

and in relation to wireless yeah, i have a realtek card and it worked fine with 6.10 but not 7.04. I think its because they changed the networkmanager

uh, no there not.

my server has SCSI disks and they are called SDx

and if it does hurt it, you just need to stick in your xp cd and type a simple command which will delete grub and reinstall the stock xp bootloader.

also DO NOT install grub if your PC relies on...

you get to choose. Usually it goes on the first disk.


e.g

PC BOOTS UP
BIOS CHECKS HDD1
BIOS READS MBR
BIOS SEES GRUB IN MNR
GRUB SHOWS OS CHOICES

Grub is the bootloader. It lives in the first few sectors of the disk and it is what the pc looks for when it boots up. It will give you the option to boot either XP or Ubuntu

If it goes wrong...