View Full Version : I think I have lost my mind . . .
six_storm
05-24-07, 02:22 PM
Seriously, I think I have. I've been sick and stuck at home, therefore giving me time with my PC. I wanted to put a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot on here but I have a very simple and stupid problem. MY LIVECD AND ALT CD DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE!!! WTF?!?! I just had Ubuntu 7.04 on this PC a month ago using this same LiveCD but now that I have Vista on here, it doesn't even wanna boot off of the CD!!!! I've tried it in 2 PCs and 1 laptop, along with a fresh LiveCD and Alt CD. WTF? Has MS really taken over my PCs? lol
I know I'm on some meds but I'm sane enough to get this to work. I've tried changing CD drives in the BIOS for boot, burning the ISOs in XP and Nero (I have a good LiveCD anyways) and anything else you can think of. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
NOTE: I even tried VirtualPC 7 and VMWare Server and even they can't pick up the Live or Alt CD. WTF is going on here?
Camp0rz
05-24-07, 02:38 PM
Have you tried making a new disc?
six_storm
05-24-07, 02:56 PM
Have you tried making a new disc?
Yeah, I've made new disc for both the Live and Alt CDs with XP and Nero. Vista doesn't wanna burn discs for me though . . .
six_storm
05-24-07, 06:03 PM
ARGHHH!!!!!! So I found my old 6.10 disc and it actually worked and started to install. However, the disc is scratched and it froze half way during installation. So now, my Vista installation is screwed up and I can't install Ubuntu. Great. Any suggestions guys?
Boot from your Vista dvd and select the repair option, it may take a couple times with reboots depending on how badly it's borked.
Sounds like you are using crappy media possibly with a corrupt download, check the md5 against the iso.
Are you burning to dvd and trying to use cd-rom only?
What version of nero? & is much different from 6 for burning an image.
six_storm
05-24-07, 07:59 PM
Boot from your Vista dvd and select the repair option, it may take a couple times with reboots depending on how badly it's borked.
Done that, it needs drivers to repair my HDD, yet it can install Vista on my HDD without them lol.
Sounds like you are using crappy media possibly with a corrupt download, check the md5 against the iso.
See, the funny thing is that I downloaded the ISO when 7.04 came out and installed it perfectly fine. I know for a fact that the CD works, yet it doesn't boot up now.
Are you burning to dvd and trying to use cd-rom only?
Nope, just CD-R's, the way I've always done it.
What version of nero? & is much different from 6 for burning an image.
Dunno about Nero 6, but I'm dabbling with a trial version of Nero 7. I usually use the WinXP "Write These Files to CD" feature but even Nero won't work.
That's odd with nero. I have 7.9.6.0 installed and just do >nero express ess>Image,project,copy>disc image and it burned 7.04 flawlessly.
Are you positive it's your drive and not motherboard? Loose IDE cable from your optical?
I'd bet it's something simple.
On your vista, I've used the repair function several times and never had it ask for files/drivers.
But if it doesn't work on your other 2 pcs it has to be a drive or cd or burnt image problem.
If you can get that disc to boot in any machine try the "check install media" option...or whatever they call it these days.
six_storm
05-25-07, 12:49 AM
I finally got my LiveCD to work and install . . . what a fluke. I honestly don't know what happened but it finally worked. Vista popped up in grub so it's not completely lost. Thanks grey_1 for the help.
I finally got my LiveCD to work and install . . . what a fluke. I honestly don't know what happened but it finally worked. Vista popped up in grub so it's not completely lost. Thanks grey_1 for the help.
yw, glad you got it working.
six_storm
05-31-07, 11:59 AM
Thanks, I guess it was my CD but it's just weird how the same CD I used to install 7.04 a month ago suddenly doesn't wanna boot. Thanks grey.
Thanks, I guess it was my CD but it's just weird how the same CD I used to install 7.04 a month ago suddenly doesn't wanna boot. Thanks grey.
Lol, I'm having trouble with mine now. :rolleyes:
matter of fact after 2 days of being informed that the "kernel is alive" with no video output afterwards is getting very old.
I'm downloading PClinuxOS v. 7, I need to see what all the fuss is about.
six_storm
06-01-07, 12:45 PM
Lol, I'm having trouble with mine now. :rolleyes:
matter of fact after 2 days of being informed that the "kernel is alive" with no video output afterwards is getting very old.
I'm downloading PClinuxOS v. 7, I need to see what all the fuss is about.
You know, I looked around after I started playing around with Ubuntu just to see what the difference was and really, there's not one. There's the same Window Managers, just different packages pre-installed. I'm sure there are a lot of other things different, but I'm not a Linux guru. So . . . yeah.
You know, I looked around after I started playing around with Ubuntu just to see what the difference was and really, there's not one. There's the same Window Managers, just different packages pre-installed. I'm sure there are a lot of other things different, but I'm not a Linux guru. So . . . yeah.
I had to dl and reburn Ubuntu. PClinuxOS is coming along very nicely, texstar is doing a great job over there, but it's based on mandrake..or mandriva, not sure what they call it now. And I have a love/hate relationship with mandrake from way back.
Besides, I much prefer debs over rpm based pkg management.
six_storm
06-02-07, 12:59 AM
I had to dl and reburn Ubuntu. PClinuxOS is coming along very nicely, texstar is doing a great job over there, but it's based on mandrake..or mandriva, not sure what they call it now. And I have a love/hate relationship with mandrake from way back.
Besides, I much prefer debs over rpm based pkg management.
I haven't really dealt with Mandrake that much but Ubuntu suits my needs, works really well. I've experimented with Wine and a few other fun things with Ubuntu, but finally just re-installed for the last time. :D
I haven't really dealt with Mandrake that much but Ubuntu suits my needs, works really well. I've experimented with Wine and a few other fun things with Ubuntu, but finally just re-installed for the last time. :D
Lol, that's what I say Every time! :D
six_storm
06-02-07, 12:45 PM
Lol, that's what I say Every time! :D
Haha! Yeah, I'm still learning things in Linux and usually when I try to do anything with Nvidia drivers or Wine, X gets screwed up (even though I use my xorg.conf.backup) and I have to reinstall. Fortunatly, it doesn't take all day to re-install so it's not that big of a problem.
Do you use Gnome or KDE? Got any personal preferences?
Gnome here. Menu management, available packages and over all performance just seem more robust, more intuitively layed out and much snappier to me. I also have never (not since fc2 days..I should say) had Gnome crash on me. I played with the last 3 versions of KDE and while it's coming along nicely, I always, always wind up with some type of crash.
I also played with Enlightenment for a long time. That's a desktop that has a seriously kick-ass WOW factor if set up properly, but it can drive you crazy configuring it.
As far as the NV drivers, I figured out what I was doing wrong, and the last 2 installs were quick and painless..kudos to nv for great support.
six_storm
06-02-07, 09:26 PM
Gnome here. Menu management, available packages and over all performance just seem more robust, more intuitively layed out and much snappier to me. I also have never (not since fc2 days..I should say) had Gnome crash on me. I played with the last 3 versions of KDE and while it's coming along nicely, I always, always wind up with some type of crash.
I also played with Enlightenment for a long time. That's a desktop that has a seriously kick-ass WOW factor if set up properly, but it can drive you crazy configuring it.
As far as the NV drivers, I figured out what I was doing wrong, and the last 2 installs were quick and painless..kudos to nv for great support.
KDE is just weird to me, it also takes more hardware resources. Even configured to my likings, I still never got used to it and all the "K's". K this, K that. Gnome has just always been better. I thought I had installed Enlightenment at one point but never fooled around with it. Oh well. Installing NV drivers for me for any version of Ubuntu pre-7.04 has been easy. However with the latest version, it wants to install it's own NV drivers and nothing else. Oh well.
KDE is just weird to me, it also takes more hardware resources. Even configured to my likings, I still never got used to it and all the "K's". K this, K that. Gnome has just always been better. I thought I had installed Enlightenment at one point but never fooled around with it. Oh well. Installing NV drivers for me for any version of Ubuntu pre-7.04 has been easy. However with the latest version, it wants to install it's own NV drivers and nothing else. Oh well.
100% agreed on KDE.
I just pm'd tis to someone else, worked perfect for me every time now on 32bit 7.04.
I never could get the 64bit to work, but I'm on 32bit now running sweet.
a.) Dl the alternate install cd
b.) Install using vga and noapci
c.) sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
d.) Verufy the following packages are installed:
- make
-gcc
-linux-headers for your kernel. Do 'uname -r' minus quotes.
-pkg-caonfig
-xserver-xorg-dev
e.) Sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx --purge
f.) sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel
g.) sudo nano /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common.
Change DISABLED_MODULES="" to DISABLED_MODULES="nv" save and exit.
Dl the 9755s. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-9755.html
save them to where you like, do ctrl+alt+F1, then log in and do
'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop'
The last bit will be /kdm stop if you use KDE.
sudo sh NVIDIA_name_of_pkg...
Run nvidia xorg-config when it asks you, reboot and enjoy.
Maybe this will help??
Just an update...This is sweet. :)
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/3830/screenshotax1.png (http://imageshack.us)
six_storm
06-04-07, 09:45 PM
Looks awesome man! Here's mine:
http://www.photodump.com/direct/six_storm/Screenshot871.jpg
Nothing special, I really haven't had much time to customize it since I've been playing Halo 2 and Castlevania:SOTN. Hope to customize soon!
I had to google Castlevania. I thought it was a Doom mod. :D
Let me know if you get that beryl 'black window' bug. I just had to get rid of it, first time I've seen it but annoying as it gets. I thought my gfx card died.
Looks good though, I'd like to see it after you polish it up a bit.
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