BongoBob Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 >< We're on try number 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'll try to remember some of the different things I did to get it to work later. Too tired to do it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 **** it. ****. IT. My computer is the bastard spawn of satan and AOL, I'm going to just chuck it, and ask my grandpa if I can have his that he never ever uses. Anybody got an old computer taking up space that you don't want anymore >< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 At minimum you need a boot partition and a swap partition, the boot partition should be in EXT3 or ReiserFS and the swap should be formatted as a Linux swap fs (slightly obvious ). You should then proceed to install the swap and OS to their respective partitions. However, if you have difficulty with Ubuntu, try Phlak or Ark Linux, Phlak is slightly harder to use (you'll have to mount your own removable media drives, which you should be able to do with the info from my previous post), however it's very secure and comes with some awesome hacking/security tutorials and the utilities to use them. Ark Linux is a Red Hat-based (or maybe Debian...) distribution that uses the KDE desktop enviroment and is extremely easy to use, and you can even play Tetris while the installer does almost all the work of installing the OS. Both of these distributions have GUI-based installers that are really easy to use, but Ark Linux is not LiveCD. You can find links to them both at the Linux Homepage. By the way, if you're looking for installation-fun, try Gentoo Also, if you have a fast connection, you may try Fedora Core or SUSE, but both downloads are in the multi-GB range and require a DVD-R or 4-6 CD's, however SUSE is really easy to use and features a choice of desktops (themes, 'XP-style', 'Mac Os-style', KDE, and Gnome), along with everything you'll need (in terms of programs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 Well, after an assload of tinkering, quite a few hissyfits, and a couple of scream your brains out moments, I finally got ubuntu to install My only problems so far are these... I don't have a long enough ethernet cable available atm, so I have to run to wal mart to fix that. And also for some reason I have no sound. I'm tryin to figure out how to fix that, the compaq uses s***y onboard audio... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Well at least you got it working. Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 the compaq uses s***y onboard audio... Any idea what kind? You'll need to download drivers, since it couldn't auto-detect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 Compaq Audio * Aureal A3D Interactive 360 Positional Sound That's what it says on the compaq specs page. EDIT: What is the root user? Is it the user you create during setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 EDIT: What is the root user? Is it the user you create during setup? No, it's like the user that has all the permissions. If I am thinking of the right thing, in the terminal type sudo before your command line and it will give you root permissions. Another great thing that I wanted to add was that I recommend you get is Automatix. It installs a ton of programs for you and all you have to do is check a bunch of boxes and click OK. It's installing stuff for me as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Ubuntu barely takes up any room on your hard drive.So does Kanotix. Pretty much everything including support for newest hardware working ootb. A live distro based on Debian/SID. Originated from Knoppix. Has an really good HD installer. I *always* have a copy with me. XD I for myself have no internet available atm, so I'm "stuck" (and I love it) with the handy 2 DVD Debian 3.1 (Sarge) thingering. 15000+ packets for zero zero. Only wine and the kernel are up to date. It's the best distro *I* ever had. ^^ root="god for linux systems". There will be no other user ever able to gain so much power like root has. Other than a Windows-Administrator, root will never read "no permission" on any action taken. He who has root rights controls the system. Or destroys it. Or both. Mwaha. TUM! TUUMM!! TUUUMMMM!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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