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Re: Help installing Ubuntu?

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Mar 16th, 2007

yeah, the dells are wierd. theyve got a stupid recovery partition which you hit control + f11 tto recover from. this will be destroyed by installing GRUB to the MBR.

However, you can work around this by installing linux on a hard disk of a different connection type and putting grub on the MBR of that (when you do the F12 thing you can choose either SATA disk or IDE disk as a boot device)

Also i dont know if you know this but a large proportion of dells will not get any sound whatsoever under linux or vista. You can fix this by applying the most recent BIOS flash.

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Mar 20th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Dave77

I have a PC I'd like to install Ubuntu on. I burned an iso onto a CD but I dont know how to install it on my second PC. I'm trying to figure it out.

When I start the computer it reads "missing operating system". The hard drive was erased using fdisk. How do I get to where I can install Ubuntu from the CD I burned?

Thanks for any help.:cheesy:

The md5 and correctly burning the iso to CD are good places to start, as far as programs and/or step by step instructions, the Ubuntu page has a lot of useful info https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto. I was able to download and burn an edubuntu distro and install it quite easily. If the md5 sums don't match after repeated downloads, you might want to get a downloader program to ease the pain of failed downloads. Also, sometimes you have to force the computer to boot from the CD in the BIOS.

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Mar 20th, 2007

yes, on some pcs such as dells you can hit a key (f12) and tell it which device to start off

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Mar 20th, 2007

Speaking of dells and installing I have a dell Gx150 with a pen 3 930Mhz, coppermine CPU,512 Mb ram. (My son's for the last two years)
Well it was so stubborn about live cds that I finally had to un-check the option to boot from the hard drive in bios. Otherwise no matter what I tried ,or which order the hard drive, cdrom,floppy booted from,the computer would skip the cdrom or floppy and go straight to the hard drive. As soon as I unchecked the box in bios so the hard drive couldn't boot then the live cd would boot and boot fine. My son loves that computer. He's going to be 6 in july and he has been dual booting xp and MEPIS for two years or so. Himself.Never too early to start them. And a computer is an awesome babysitter/entertainer.
Anyways like I said unchecking the option to boot the hard drive in bios was the only way to get that one to take a live cd.