To both posters of issues, the live cd version of knoppix/ubuntu has some great driver support for the majority of hardware available. This being said, I have had some experiences in the past where these types of errors may occur - and in all cases it is where one of the hardware drivers required is something similar to a "winmodem" type of issue. This occurs when hardware vendors are too cheap to include full firmware with the actual hardware, depending on software to cover their shortcomings (notably - Promise hardware and sata controllers). There are ways around this in linux, but it requires some indepth knowledge of the drivers that are available as well as some patience to run through testing.
May we know what type of hardware you are running? (please don't use the "I bought a machine from costco - you know the one..." that doesn't help too much) relztrah wrote: > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>, 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. > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
