i will be getting an asus g72gx that i bought from my friend hes going to use dban on the computer and i was wondering what i need to do in order to put ubuntu on to the laptop after everything has been wiped
View 5 Repliesso here's my problem. I am trying to install windows xp on my computer in virtual machine so i can watch netflix on my computer. The disk will not start up, if I restart and try to boot from load i just sits there and says boot from cd. The disk drive plays music cd's fine, so i dont really know what the issue is.
I dont know that much aboutut ubuntu. a tech friend put it on hard drive he gave me after mine crashed. also i should ad that i took the disk to someone else's house that haswidnows installed and the disk worked just fine, so its not a disk problem
At the moment I've got dual-bootable machine with WinXP (25GB on hard disk) and openSUSE 11.2 (20GB on hard disk). After saving the important files on my ~/home I want to wipe off all data from both my partitions and then install WinXP (with 15GB) and openSUSE 11.2 with 30GB. The problem is I'm not sure how to go about doing this? I'm guessing the problem will be the boot process. I installed openSUSE on a machine that already had WinXP and I didn't change any boot settings so it must still be controlled by XP. So presumably I'd have to:
1. Remove openSUSE first and then remove XP using the XP CD.
2. Install XP again
3. Install openSUSE on another partition as I did before but with different partition sizes.
Or should I install openSUSE first before XP? I think I'm more confident on installing XP first since I've already done it earlier. The only other complication is that this is my 'laptop' screen is broken so I use an external monitor. This is what prevented me from formatting my computer earlier.
Thanks.
I have tried many times with USBs,burnt CDs, even manage to get one from Ubuntu them sevles, and followed many tuts to no avail.
SPECS: Toshiba Satellite, AMD TurionII dual-Core Mobile M500 2.20 GHz, with 3.00 GB of RAM
Heres the image I get when I try to install/try code...
I just put together a new computer, started to install win7 and then tried to install Ubuntu.
Ubuntu (The installer) tells me that I don't have at least 2.6 GB available drive space...
I have a 640GB SATA 3.0 HD and the only thing on it is win7. On previous versions of Ubuntu this was never an problem. Ubuntu always helped me with the partition.
I have tried both the 64 and 32 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.10 and get the same result.
i want to install xp on a computer running ubuntu; is that possible?
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Is this possible? I told the installer to install the OpenSSH Server, so it should work, right?
I got my laptop repaired (by the manufacturer). Linux would install fine before, but not now, as all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor. Note, I've only tried KDE versions of software since my laptop came back, so I don't know if that's the problem. I tried linux mint 9 and kubuntu 10.04. And all I get after a while is described above. I also tried some different install options, because I'm able to get to the menu to choose which type of install I want, but the other options led to the same thing, and it would sometimes display a bunch of numbers and then "EH ok" or something. the numbers on the left keep increasing, and eventually I get to the splash screen, where it freezes, and repeats the process.
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I couldn't get the disc to boot up on start up so I got Ubuntu to fix that for me with the handy feature it has on the installation disc.
However, when trying to boot up Ubuntu from the disc, it gives me this error:
try (hd0,0): NTSF5: error: "prefix" is not set
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im trying to install flash on my computer...why might i get this message
Could not open "flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release.i386.rpm"
Archive type not supported.
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