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Linux!?!?!?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

Hey, I’m trying to install Ubuntu from the live CD. The Ububtu option screen comes up, I select Start or Install Ubuntu from Live CD. Then the screen goes black for a moment and give a message giving some sort of timer error and for me to set noapic as a boot option, what could be causing this? I have ran Ubuntu perfectly fine in the past with most of the other versions, this is version 7.10 and it doesn’t seem to wanna work. Any help?

+ Same problem with Linux Mint 4.0

HAVE had ubuntu installed on this system before, and it’s not a dell.

Checked all the forums i can and no real solution found.

also, anyone know any other linux dist. that use the new Beryl with the spinning box desktop?

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Which (USB) Linux Live Distro should I get?

Posted on July 13, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

My laptop’s hard drive corrupted and I cannot repair it without paying money that I don’t have at the moment. I’m taking a long trip very soon, and would like to be able to use it (the laptop). I’ve used a few distros in the past, but they were very confusing, and never booted from an USB drive. My CD/DVD drive is broken, so it has to be USB bootable. Would like an intuitive interface, and as much windows-compatibility as possible (i.e. can open .doc, .exe, etc.) Also, if I could just get the distro files themselves (skipping the whole torrent the .iso, burn it, then copy it to the USB), that would be amazing! Torrenting is actually out of the question. Anyway, if there is a distro that fits all (or most) of the above, what is it?

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does frequent formatting and changing partitions cause bad sectors in hard disk?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

i used to format and change the size of partitions every month to try different flavors of linux and my hard disk developed bad sectors and i had to send it for a replacement,at the moment i am using mandriva live cd to run basic stuff as i don have a hard disk

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Linux!?!?!?

Posted on June 2, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

Hey, I’m trying to install Ubuntu from the live CD. The Ububtu option screen comes up, I select Start or Install Ubuntu from Live CD. Then the screen goes black for a moment and give a message giving some sort of timer error and for me to set noapic as a boot option, what could be causing this? I have ran Ubuntu perfectly fine in the past with most of the other versions, this is version 7.10 and it doesn’t seem to wanna work. Any help?

+ Same problem with Linux Mint 4.0

HAVE had ubuntu installed on this system before, and it’s not a dell.

Checked all the forums i can and no real solution found.

also, anyone know any other linux dist. that use the new Beryl with the spinning box desktop?

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