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02-10-2010, 09:05 AM
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problem is apparently with the external cd drive itself and my computer refusing the drivers. time to go to the computer store... need an external cd drive anyways.
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02-10-2010, 09:18 AM
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and now by some miracle it's working and i can load it up. Thank you again, i know it's been a pain. it's kinda my luck right now.
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02-10-2010, 09:21 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
Posts: 6,443
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So have you booted the live CD?
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02-10-2010, 09:23 AM
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yep, working on getting the demo form up and running right now. Right now it's reading and firing up the operating system, so all that's left is seeing how i like it.
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02-10-2010, 09:25 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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And do you want to try to recover your data?
If so, what are you going to put in on?
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02-10-2010, 09:28 AM
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no, too late for the data... i can get it back later anyways. was mostly just music and videos. only about 3 things i cared about and i can recall most of what i actually need easily enough.
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02-10-2010, 09:43 AM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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So you installed Ubuntu to your hard drive now?
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02-10-2010, 10:28 AM
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not yet. about to. so far i've gotta say i freakin love it. still just running off the disk.
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02-10-2010, 11:33 AM
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Registered: May 2005
Location: boston, usa
Distribution: fedora-35
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^ sorry i got here late. did anyone mention unetbootn to put the cd image on a usb harddrive ?
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02-10-2010, 11:35 AM
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the drive is working now... i just can't get the audio to work. which is making me wary about doing the install to the hard drive.
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02-10-2010, 01:59 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TempestStorm
the drive is working now... i just can't get the audio to work. which is making me wary about doing the install to the hard drive.
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Just because something like audio does not work out of the box is no reason not to install. There can be various reasons--you might need a driver, or you might just need to add yourself to the appropriate group.
The ONLY reason to proceed with caution is if you have important data on the drive...or perhaps if you have Windows, but no Windows install CD. You cannot physically harm the computer by installing Linux.
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02-10-2010, 10:03 PM
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Well thanks for all the help. i indeed up trying out the pen drive technique, got that working, and now all the stuff is working. so I have sound, i have it working etc... just need to actually put it on the computer itself now.
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02-11-2010, 12:15 AM
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Registered: May 2009
Location: australia
Distribution: slackware
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I am interested to hear your opinion-I have just loaded ubuntu netbook 10.04 beta version on my toshiba NB100 netbook and it works very well including the sound. Although I do not think is boots any quicker than my main system (slackware current). I am sure I read a claim that it would boot in 10 secionds? Ubuntu is as user friendly as windows, and more stable.
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