Tag Archives: Vaio

Help with dual-booting vista and ubuntu!?

Posted on May 31, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I am currently using a vaio vgn-fz140e which came with vista. I have a 60 gig external hard drive from my previous computer and I wiped the hard drive and installed Ubuntu linux on it. For some reason, the computer automatically tries to boot ubuntu but can’t load it from the external drive. It doesn’t even try to load vista. When running ubuntu from the live cd, I can see that both vista and ubuntu are installed on their respective drives, but they won’t boot at all. I tried to get into the BIOS, but for some reason, I can’t. Can anyone help me?

→ 2 Comments

Posted in Linux Live CDs

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Linux on USB or CD to bypass balky hard drive?

Posted on May 4, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

I’ve asked this before, but wasn’t able to locate exact downloadable sites. My Vaio laptop has a balky drive, and I’d like to create what I believe is called a Live CD (or better yet, Live thumbdrive, if that’s what it’s called) to be able to use it again.
If you respond, would you kindly let me know exactly where to find the downloadable file? e.g. I rooted around in DSL without knowing exactly where to go. I also downloaded ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386 which i understand contains a Live CD, but I don’t know how to access it. (My inexperience is showing, I’m sure).
Thanks for any help, barry

→ 6 Comments

Posted in Linux Live CDs

Tagged , , , , , , , ,

My laptop won’t run the Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (Edgy Eft) live CD. Why won’t it work?

Posted on December 27, 2009 by admin| 1 Comment

My Sony Vaio runs the CD well. So does my dad’s Dell Inspiron. However, my Toshiba Tecra won’t. Instead of going to the screen on boot-up, it continued to run the Windows XP boot up. The ISO was the official one, and I used the official ISO recorder. I made another CD, and its the same problem. My laptop has had issues with many computer games, specifically the classic NVIDEA display problem, but it seems that is unlikely. Maybe it could be caused from interferrence from an ISO mounter. Do I need to set my computer to read the CD before it boots?

→ 1 Comment

Posted in Linux Live CDs

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,