arthur dimitriou wrote:
I'm wandering if you can possibly help me. This is my first contact with your
group. I am reasonably new to computer things but have done a basic computer
architecture course, have built a computer and have purchased 5 linux disks
from ebay. They are Mandriva, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Suse 10.1 and Fedora. None of
them work on my computer. I'm trying to work out why. If you can help, I can
provide more information. Please let me know. Thanks. Arthur.
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We need more information than that to help.
Are the disks booting and starting the install process? ie have you set
the bios to boot from cd ?
If the cds are booting, at what point does everything funk out?
I have seen video problems before where I just changed the driver to
vesa to get through the install, and then set the correct driver, but
from the varied distros you mention, it sounds more like you just have
not set the bios correctly.
We are always happy to help, but we need the info
Tuxta
PS. I would suggest you use either Mandriva or Ubuntu as a first time
GNU/Linux user, but thats just my opinion. All distro's are great, I
have just found more success with newbies, when referring them to one of
those distros first. PClinux I have heard is also very good (based on
Mandriva).
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