Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 05, 2007 02:42 AM
Thank you for the great videos! I just wish I could get to the point where your video starts. OK, so I download Ubuntu and burn the image to cd. Then I take an old pc (IBM Netvista P3/900mhz with no extras) and this is where the first question comes up: Does the hard drive have to be partitioned and formatted? If yes, which format - fat, fat32 or ntsf? (I tried all). I pop in the CD and eventually the menu comes up. First I use the option to check the cd - fine. Then I select #1 (Install). After a short while, an error mesg comes up "There was an error starting the GNOME setting daemon." and something to the effect that it'll try again later. At this point the CD drive keeps running, really sounds like it's doing something, but strangely there is no activity on the harddrive LED. This continues for about an hour (nothing happening on the screen) and then the screen goes black and the CD stops running. It's the same with Ubuntu versions 6.06 and 6.10. I don't think it's a hardware problem; it had no trouble running a Win2k installation.
If I had any hair left, I'd be pulling it out by now. Unfortunately it's all gone, after 20 years of windows use<nobr> <wbr></nobr>......
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 05, 2007 02:42 AMI just wish I could get to the point where your video starts.
OK, so I download Ubuntu and burn the image to cd.
Then I take an old pc (IBM Netvista P3/900mhz with no extras) and this is where the first question comes up: Does the hard drive have to be partitioned and formatted? If yes, which format - fat, fat32 or ntsf? (I tried all).
I pop in the CD and eventually the menu comes up.
First I use the option to check the cd - fine.
Then I select #1 (Install).
After a short while, an error mesg comes up "There was an error starting the GNOME setting daemon." and something to the effect that it'll try again later.
At this point the CD drive keeps running, really sounds like it's doing something, but strangely there is no activity on the harddrive LED. This continues for about an hour (nothing happening on the screen) and then the screen goes black and the CD stops running.
It's the same with Ubuntu versions 6.06 and 6.10.
I don't think it's a hardware problem; it had no trouble running a Win2k installation.
If I had any hair left, I'd be pulling it out by now. Unfortunately it's all gone, after 20 years of windows use<nobr> <wbr></nobr>......
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