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well it crashed and now the pc will not even boot. I am begining to think that linux does not want me to use it.
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Of course it wants you to use it!
Dont give up, please!
Okay, to quote someone "
here's an easy one"
- Get
MacPup, probably the best thing to start with for you
- Burn the CD, you know kow
- Insert the CD in the PC where Linux has to be installed (
not your main system - the hard drive will be erased) and (re)start that PC
- At the brown-ish splash, just hit Enter
- After all the text, you'll see five dancing dots, dont worry...
- You end up on a dark-blue desktop.
- There will be a setup screen, enter the values you need (keys, mouse, screen) hit "OK"
- You'll be able to test the keyboard
- The thing will want to restart the X-server, allow that
- The dancing dots, again...
- Click on the (gothic) "M" and navigate until you see "Setup" (Applications-Setup)
- Choose "
Puppy Universal Installer"
- Choose where to install ("
internal IDE SATA drive" I guess)
- You'll be presented with a (list of) drive(s), select your hard drive (SDA/HDA, depends)
- Prep the hard drive, to do that, hit the grey-ish button, GParted will come up
- You'll see a "strip", that's the hard drive. Let's clean up first
- Click on that strip, then the trash can to delete the whole thing (
unless there's still data you need)
- Hit "apply" and confirm
- Repeat that until you have one clean grey strip
- Click in the (now) grey strip and the "new" button
- Enter a name for the drive and leave the rest as is...
- Click "Add" and "Apply", again, confirm
- The system will report success, close this frame too...
- Right-click in the (now) white strip and then select "
manage flags"
- Select "boot" and close
- Before you close GParted, note the name that was given, look for something like "/dev/sda1"...or the like,
write this down...
- In the menu, select "GParted" then "Quit"
- Re-select the harddisk, there could be more than one (here it was), dont worry, they're both the same
- You're back in the installer screen
- Hit the red-ish button next to "install to sda1"
- Confirm at the next screen
- The next screen presents two buttons (and quite some text), I'd select "Full" for a complete install
- Let MacPup install, this may take a while...
- MacPup should come back with two things: an "
it all went well..." (phew) message and some text in a notepad...
- Just ingore this text for now...
- Next, we'll make sure the thing boots up next time
- Hit the Gothic M again, then Applications and System
- Select the yellow-ish icon : "
Grub bootloader config"
- Select "Simple", hit "OK"
- Keep the suggested choice, this is about the bootmenu, anyway
- Hit ok...
- Remember what you wrote down? Fill out the box with that, hit "OK"
- You'll be given three choices of where to put the GRUB (the menu, that is), choose the third "MBR" - okay, it says that's not safe, but ... it is, trust me
- One last (long) message saying that all went well...
- There's still some text open, close that, we dont need that anymore, dont save it...
- Noticed the buttons at the bottom? Hit the "Power" button (circle with a vertical line)
- In the next frame, select "Reboot"
- The (very) last text-only screen invites you to save settings, hit the right arrow (keyboard) until the "Do Not Save" button is selected, hit Enter
- Notice that the system
does not eject the CD rom,
you need to do that
- In the next screen (the GRUB) select the first option "Linux (on /dev/sda1)" and hit Enter
- You'll see lots of text, then the dancing dots, and...the setup screen again. That's normal, because
now,
you'll set up the final system, for a last time.
- Fill out, confirm, allow X to restart
- Welcome to Linux!
Let me know where "the eagle hits the moon"
Thor