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I have a Dell Poweredge 2550 server with 5 hard drives, only one of which I have not had trouble with.?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

I want to know which distro of Linux I should load on it. I have tried openSUSE live CD, Ubuntu 7.10 live CD, Fedora Core live cd, and the Ubuntu 6.04 Dapper Drake LTS live CD which is the only one that worked. The ubuntu server 7.10 froze at 21 percent twice with 2 different downloads and cd’s, and so did the Ubuntu 7.10 alternate. I am currently trying the opensuse non live cd. I just want to use it as a file server and to browse the web and stuff like that. It has 2 933mhz prosessors, and 1 gb of memory. Thanks in advance!

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Linux newbie here…Why won’t my LiveCD recognize both of my hard drives?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

My WinXP hard drive recently crashed. I can still access it using my LinspireLive CD, but my slave drive doesn’t show up. My flash drive shows up as a dos disk, and my corrupted drive shows up as winxp, but my slave drive doesn’t show up at all. (I assume it would show up as a dos disk because there is no OS on it.) I tried booting up under Linspire Live without the flash drive plugged in, but the slave drive still did not show up. I would like to be able to move my important files from the corrupted drive to the slave drive. How can I get Linux to recognize my slave drive so that I can do this? (I’m relatively new to Linux so be gentle…LOL)

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Removing Grub Bootloader?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

Ok, so we have a Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu and Windows on two Hard Drives (XP on one, Linux on the Other) Well, it was working beautifully, well, me and my friend decided that we were gonna try to make our own linux using Linux From Scratch, well, that wiped the Hard Drive (the Linux one) so we gave up after having difficulties, well, now when we try to boot into windows, we get the Grub screen, and it says “GRUB Loading stage1.5.
“GRUB loading, please wait…..
Error 15
then nothing happens, we don’t have a Ubuntu live CD anymore, and i think i can get a windows recovery CD, we also have a USB stick running Slax Linux that we could use, how do we fix this problem?
I actually found a windows 98 recovery cd lying around and got it fixed using the fixmbr command, thanks though

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r u using Linux ? i need ur help ?

Posted on January 15, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

i tried the Linux os yesterday from a live cd but i couldn’t do anything expect see the interface and try some games….i couldn’t open my hard drives and i couldn’t connect to the internet…why? and if i installed Linux as a second operating system can i use my windows programs like antivirus programs or Skype or any other program ???

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HP wont load OS can any one help please?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I have an HP dv9000 that will not load any type of OS i have loaded win xp vista 7 and linux will load a live linux cd but once installed will not boot loads bios but when it gets to windows splash screen it freezes same with linux i have tried 3 different hard drives the RAM is good updated the BIOS also have heard issues with the cd drives not allowing the computer to boot so removed that as well still no fix i am very savvy with the computer but this one has totally stumped me its an HP dv9000 just wondering if anyone has came across this and may have any tips if i cannot resolve it ill just part it out its in excellent shape thanks!!!!

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