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Linux help?

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin| 8 Comments

Hey everyone. I’m having an issue while trying to boot off the live cd I downloaded and burned. I am able to run it on my desktop just fine but when I try to load it on my laptop my screen turns weird. What will happen when I boot is: the ubuntu welcome screen comes up asking me what I would like to do. I choose start ubuntu and hit enter and then a quick message flashes on the top that says “bios bug #81 found” after that the OS starts initializing and during all the system checks I notice another error that reads “error micro code: bcm43xx_microcode5.fw” After that a black grid comes up on the screen and covers the entire screen while a blue/grey blob glows and gets really bright and then slowly fades until the screen is completely blank. Has anyone had this problem or know how I can fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated and the specs on my laptop are on this link:

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-c…5.html?tag=sub

Thanks.

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linux live cd help?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

i have new laptop withvista premium, 1gb of ram, 160gb hdd, and dual core processor, i used all the linux live cd and they run fine but there is one linux distribution live cd that runs really slow period to the point where my mouse doesnt move and when it moves it moves for like 5 seconds to where i want and then it stops, idk why can somebody please explain to me why this is going on is it my virtual memory thats really low, because the live cd runs throught the ram heres more information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditor_Security_Collection

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erase linux from external HDD?

Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I recently installed Linux Ubuntu on a external laptop hard drive to keep vista on my internal drive. Ubuntu worked fine but there was one problem, the external hard drive had to be present in order to boot windows using Grub. In order to save myself from a future frustration (external drive being damaged or missing).
But my problem is this: now every time that I connect my external HDD (with Ubuntu installed) it doesn’t even show up on “My computer”. So I want to format it to the way it was (clean)
If not through windows, Can someone tell me how to format it throu the Live CD?

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Linux on Mac?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

hi all, got a major problemo here, i ran a SUSE Linux live cd on a friend’s mac. it worked quite fine when i tried returning to the mac OS the system gave me the following message “Cannot find Bootable Device”, which is strange cos the Mac OS was running just fine befor i restarted the system for the Linux live cd. the only thing i know i did was direct the Mac to use the CD-ROM as the first bootable device, i did this within the OS itself, i guess that’s what’s giving me problems. please how do i reverse the process.
Mean while i want to install Linux on the Mac, will it affect the files on the system.

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network problem with Fedora 7 – networking works on live cd but not after install?

Posted on November 15, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

This is on a laptop with realtek wired network interface and intel pro 2000 wireless interface. Networking all works fine on the live cd. After the livecd has been installed the networking won’t work – can’t activate the wireless card, wired interface says it is activated but won’t work and the network manager icon does not show in the system tray. I’m a linux newbie, and after searching for a while I’m stumped. Any ideas?
Thanks
Thanks for your reply, I’ve tried your suggestions. Restarting the network wouldn’t work, but after disabling the network manager and rebooting at least the wired interface is now working. However how would I use the wireless interface with WPA if the network manager tray icon is not there to enter WPA keys?

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