Hello all,

This is my first time ever installing anykind of Linux OS on a computer. A friend told me Whitbox is very simple and my best bet. I'm installing it on an older computer. E-machine w/ intel celeron 600mhz cpu and nothing else very special about it. hey, free computer you know?

anyway, I deleted all the partitions on my 120gig WD HD (all 8000 mp3s included :\ ) and I'm about to write zeros to it.

I have no luck what-so-ever at begining this install.

at first i was getting missing NTLDR error when I tried to boot off hte CD

then I downloaded a bootdisk: bare.i (was this even needed?)
and it would hang at a "freeDOS" promt.

So this is where I am at. I have the .iso ready to install, but they arent installing and my BIOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM first.
whenever I try to use a boot disk to possibly get started it also doesnt seem to help.

I'm kinda lost here, please help guys!!

How did you burn the iso? It sounds like a non bootable cd, improperly burned cd, or a corrupt iso. From your info it appears that the cd is being bypassed and you're machine is try to boot from the hard disk. The missing NTLDR error looks like a hard disk error to me. Check your media, and check your iso against an md5sum.
good luck.

I got the .iso files from here:
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxl...1/en/iso/i386/

i downloaded the binary files 1-3

and i burned them with the program alcohol 120%


im not exactly sure what you mean by the md5sum

when i looked at the file, the output was this:
dcb6b88da08128edc9ff8658b2cd313e liberation-rc1-binary-1.iso
e3c0dcdbb251798f0925a31da569a9dd liberation-rc1-binary-2.iso
9265990543c280701427464f3f2ae213 liberation-rc1-binary-3.iso
32c0c98b2fd8de472ced8e3f9baf8274 liberation-rc1-source-1.iso
ede1ac2b1e8bdfdaf756d84928aa4316 liberation-rc1-source-2.iso
ecc629fd5fe9c33c2a2c54961e2674fa liberation-rc1-source-3.iso

^bunch of jibberish to me, thanks for your help though

hi there,

some older computers refuse to boot from cd , even if you are able to choose so in the bios. ( i have one of them ).
maybe you could try this tool : http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm
( it helped me out some time ago .)
it gives you a menu to choose the bootdevice.

egag

i downloaded it and it says to remove the disk or other media press any key to restart with that boot disk, any more ideas guys?

well...that floppy should boot for sure.....
did you use rawrite or smth. like that to create the floppy ?

egag

Did you burn the image file, or just burn the iso onto a disk, there is a difference? This may help.

http://support.alcohol-soft.com/en/k...ing+Your+Image

good luck.

ok just so that you know, it was the computer itself. the cd rom drives werent being read for some reason.
I took out the hard drive and put it on my windows machine and tried to install whitebox there...but the disk kept failing.
so i then tried slackware 10 ....holy crap. i gave up this morning with that one...

so then i tried whitebox again, same cd and all

and guess what?

so far...this OS is cool as hell!

im so glad i finally made the switch.

thanks for all your help guys, im sure i'll have more questions later!

-matt
A+, Net+