Yep tried that and still no luck. I tried it with one stick of 512mb ram. Took out the optical drive. Took out the other harddrive. And still no luck. So im guessing it would be a faulty drive. Damn ebuyer this is the second time this has happened. Time to move to scan me thinks!!! Looks like il be linux free for another day Also thanks for your input about the games and such!! Lecsiy
No probs, My biggest problem moving to Linux was getting games to work, but luckily the main games I play have Linux variants. But things like Steam and BF2 need cedega! Ebuyer, arrghgh, I hate those people!! They are cheap, no doubt about it and I even know people who have NEVER had problems, or when they do have it is sorted quickly....but everytime I have a problem it turns into a nightmare and it seems to be often Have fun when your drive is back.
Ok, New probelm. Havent got drive yet im gonna get one tomorow. However i have been thinking. My Cd for some reason wont do booting up Soo theese booatble cds ive made are totally useless. Grrrr So now does that rule out any possibility of getting linux on my system. O and to make thinks worse i dont have a floppy drive. I heard something about Grugg or something like that will that work if so can someone give me a guide. Sorry lecsiy
are you burning the ISO images to the cd in the right format ie choosing 'burn cd image' or similar (ie don't burn the ISO's to cd as a normal data cd - that way they won't be bootable) ?
@creaky When i downloaded all the stuff. I didnt get an ISO i got for the 5cds. 5 rars which i extracted and then i just burnt normally to cd. Im guessing thats wrong. Can you point me to the ISO download?? Lecsiy ..Edit.. Preferably for open suse bt i dont mind just a good stable version of linux!! Lecsiy
Those .rar files where probably the images for the cd's.... You shouldn't have opened them. Try redonwloading them *or using the original ones if you still have the un-extracted files* and burning those with Imgburn or Nero.
Hey, Cheers you guys heres a little info on whats happened if you were intrested. I got the new harddrive sata 2 samsung 80gb Installed it works fine Used Acronis true image to copy my old harddrive to my new one. Formatted my old one. Partitioned my old. To 120Gb of NTFS storage. 40gb of space with no file system. At the moment im re burning those cds to be bootable. I fixed my cd. Sooo i will hopefully be talking to you over linux in the next hour or so.. Thanks guys!! Lecsiy
Creaky, please tell me you're joking on using Ubuntu... If not, then don't go on the AD buddies chat with that machine, because i will have to Pwn you bigtime
lmao i couldn't resist trying it out :O i just wanna see why it's so popular; i couldn't get very far with the install, it barfed - wouldn't install blumming desktop packages so (unimpressed) i gave up for now, now trying arch-linux instead. i'm on ad_buddies now so you can shame me up anyways
Hey guys!! Well good news it all installed perfectl;y i think. Few problems though. First of all internet doesnt work. My internet is through a wireless usb adapater. (Belkin F5D6050). I need some help installing it onto the linux system!!! Also one last problem. I shut down the linux and now god knows how i can get back on it. I think by puttting a linux install cd in. it will boot if i then go boot from harddrive. However is there like a key like f something that launches linux?? Cheers for all your help!! Lecsiy
to install the Belkin USB - see this snippet from the Ndiswrapper Wiki here - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List however you need to be able to get Linux working again first glad you mentioned Belkin, must take my last remaining bit of Belkin utter rubbish hardware to the shop tomorrow, awful foul stuff
Hey guys!! Now im gonna give ubuntu a go. So as we speak im downloading the ISO. In the mean time i found this patch for the internet: http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/downloads.html Ive downloaded it, put it on a cd. Now when i get to linux what do i do?? I read this which confused me can you guys explain its on the website: To install, cd to /usr/src/linux-2.6.x/ and run: gzip -cd your_download_path/patch-atmel_reset.gz | patch -p1 what does that mean?? Lecsiy
welcome to the wonderful world of 1000's of command line switches http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/gzip.1.html - -c means Write output on standard output -d means Decompress. - that'll be the actual patching part. The straight-up 'bar' before the word 'patch' is a 'pipe', in Unix/Linux you can pipe commands in and out of each other, in simple or very complex combinations. p.s. nice one for finding that patch..
Sorry i still dont understand what application do i use to run theese patches??? Sorry im so newbie ish to all this! Also i think im gonna get a 64 mandriva 64-bit version! Erm the reason being i completly destroyed my boot loader ... oooops lol! Also i installed ubuntu over suse which then crashed so at the moment i have no linux Hopefully if i use mandriva you can give me a more in depth answer to how do i install this patch thanks for your help! Lecsiy
Ahh edit didnt work Mandriva 64 bit isnt for us freebies!! Lol So instead im going with the fedora core 5. Downloading it now!! So once again creaky any chance of a detailed explanation for fedora?? Thanks alot mate!! Lecsiy
i only used Fedora a little when it first came out, and the free equivalent before it was renamed Fedora; installed it a few times, configured it a bit but i found it too 'boring' or 'plain' for my liking. as to Mandriva-64 , it most certainly is free - http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/free that patch is simply run from the command line in linux, via the gzip program (gzip can be used to unzip and zip stuff), confusing as there's also separate gunzip, decompress programs also
Ok so firstly how do i get the command line up?? Secondly do i just type that "code" in the quivalent of a linux command prompt Thirdy il be downlaoding mandriva so maybe thatl help you with instructions!
