Windows Linux or Mac?
POSTED BY: Haze
UPDATED: Saturday, April 8, 2006 06:42
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Originally posted by Haze:
My Ubuntu DVD arrived last week. Great except for the fact I cant get the live CD boot up! Very annoying.
If you've told the BIOS to boot from CDROM, and the
disk won't boot, sounds like a bad disk. Either
that or you're trying to boot a DVD in a CD drive..
That could stop the show too ;]
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STDOUBT,
Warmest thanks to you for your kind help (and insight into aging!).
Howsomever... I found Ubuntu was horridly slow, far slower than my XP setup. Accordingly, I have set aside my hard-won Ubuntu disk, all the documentation including your edit notes, and wiped the entire computer clean. I had a mess with multiple XP installs that ended up taking up 50-percent more of the HD than it should have, no idea why, but now I have an absolutely clean install of XP.
I suspect I'll need a faster computer in the foreseeable, and will be sure to use Linux as a dual boot on it.
I was about to install only Ubuntu to see if the problem was installing it on a huge disk (80 gig) by itself. May have been its own failure to set up a swap file, but suspect it was just my 500-hz P3 Dell that was the slowup.
Yet Windows XP seems to run very quickly....
All in all it was an inteesting experience. As you noted, once I figured out how to install GRUB I put it on the main (c:\, or hda1) drive, not on hdb1. But as I noted earlier, I just don't have time to mess with it now, as I needed a computer professionally right away.
Thanks again.
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HAZE,
STDOUBT said,
" Either that or you're trying to boot a DVD in a CD drive..."
There's another thing you might have done, which I did a while back. I have both writeable DVD and CD burners on my box, and generally use the CD because it's physically higher, and therefore easier to access than the DVD drive. BUT...my DVD drive is first in the computer's listing of devices (currently D:\). One day I asked the computer to boot from that CD-ROM drive, but because it was the E:\ drive, not the D:\, the computer could not find it. I had to put the disk into the D:\ drive, which is actually a DVD burner/reader by Lite-On that does everything including dance (but makes lots of noise). And then it all worked correctly.
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