--- In [email protected], Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:49:00AM +0000, relztrah wrote:
> > Because my dead-end job and teenage son don't provide me with
> > adequate frustration, anger and disappointment, I decided to
teach
> > myself Linux. I was able to download and burn a Ubuntu Feist Fawn
CD
> > which supposedly is one of the easiest distros for newbies to cut
> > their Linux teeth on. I put my CD in the drive, fire up the
machine
> > and eventually get the following screen:
> >
> > GRUB version 0.93 (~~~~~)
> >
> > [ minimal BASH-like line editing is supported...]
> >
> > grub >
>
> Depending upon your resources, there are many distributions which
offer
> LiveCD's--that is, a system that will run from your CDROM and it is
a
> good way to see if a particular distribution will run on your
machine.
>
I thought of this but the problem is that it runs so painfully slow
that I run out of patience. In fact I have a Live CD with Knoppix and
it runs fine on my normal desktop CD. For some reason when I fire up
this old Dell Optiplex with the Knoppix CD in, I get the same results
described above. The BIOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM. Did I
somehow alter the master boot sector when I attempted to install
Ubuntu? I'm not sure what I'm talking about here or how to correct it.
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