On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 19:13, you wrote: > Hello all > Many thanks for all the advice that various people gave me > regarding what may be causing my install to not work. > I have tried some of the things that were suggested and the results are > as follows. > I did Ctrl/Alt/F1and put in my password etc. When I tried what Chad > suggested it replied with 'no such file'. > When I tried what Chris said it replied with 'command not found'. I also > tried to do an MD5sum using Chad's link but had no luck - I had to copy > the cd to my hd and it came out as three separate files. Something _very_ wrong there!
> Chris, the screen that I get is a pale greeny/teal and clicking the left > mouse button does nothing. > > With regards to which video card my machine has, I have been unable to > get that information because it is built into the motherboard and I can > find no info anywhere. > The cd's that I am using are copies that were purchased privately in > ChCh. I am under the impression that they are copies of copies which may > not be a good thing. > I live in Rolleston so maybe there is a list member who I could visit > for first hand advice. How old is this machine? Old CDROM drives will not read CD-Writable disks. We are having a Gentoo Linux Installfest tomorrow at the OSTC For Gentoo it's really not very practical to try anything much older / slower than a PII/300 http://ostc.org/ Level 2, Highgate House 182 Cashel Street Christchurch South side Cashel St. 50 metres East of Manchester St. If you were to turn up with your machine, and all the extra things like power-cords, monitor, keyboard and mice etc. and $10 in your hot little hand you'd have a pretty good chance of getting one of the better Linux systems installed. You will need a network card or be happy for one of us to open your machine and fit one.
