[Suentiend]

Also on your sluggish machine: Are you running the correct video driver? Many computers come with Nvidia video cards. Ubuntu does NOT provide drivers for them because Nvidia does not release them open source. You have to install ubuntu and then activate the third party repositories. After that you are usually offered the correct drivers. If you upgraded the process is the same the third party repositories are not active.

that may be my problem. i activated them on his machine. i don't think i did on mine.


problem is, i don't remember the command i used for it. You wouldn't happen to have that, now would you?

[icyfreshy]

I've been enjoying Slitaz Linux. not as many apps as debian based distro but damn it's fast on old hardware.

testing out Antix linux which is ubuntu based.
It's lightweight also.

I really don't need a full featured desktop these days.

Also up until the last WOW patch I was dual booting win7 & PCLinux OS phoenix addition & went weeks without logging into windows. I was playing WOW on Linux & using OpenGL it actually ran faster than on windows 7.

but sadly the last patch did something to break W.I.N.E.
I think they fixed it though so i'm going to go back & reconfigure it again when I got time.

i may end up PMing you about this. we will see.




Will CD based video games work on Ubuntu?

[Ltftujkg]

It under the Admin menu. Software sources. You need the multiverse repository to be active. Then run update manager.

[Sopsneork]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

[moredasers]

i may end up PMing you about this. we will see.




Will CD based video games work on Ubuntu?

A list of windows games that work in linux.
I forgot what app I use to configure wine.
Borduex or winedoors or something like that.

http://appdb.winehq.org/

you can usually just google the game you want to play & Wine & there is usually a tutorial somewhere for it.

[drlifeech]

OH, i know you weren't calling me an idiot. I still felt the need to clarify, though

*say nothing say nothing say nothing*

[wooclosmercob]

Bump. What became of the failed hard drive?

[VIAGRAENLINOBARATOCAMPRAR]

Bump. What became of the failed hard drive?

I am going to tell a long story because it is funny. If you don't want the funny, the short answer is he installed a used 60gb drive and i walked him through a windows install.

On Saturday he got in from work kind of late. Around 6ish. He was having a bad day because he hates his job (2 years, no raise, penny ante tactics) and his sidekick is a moron. To top it off, he broke his glasses (he has crossed eyes without them) early in the morning.

So when he gets home, wife tells him his food is in the fridge. He then gets a call from his friend who was installing a HD. The HD they tried to install would not work, the old one would not work anymore. When he hung up the cell phone, it malfunctioned. It has been a paperweight ever since.

It pissed him off pretty bad, and he told his wife to email me that he was selling it. So i asked how much (it is a beast of a machine) in a reply. Never heard back from her. But what had happened was he went and served his supper that she put in the fridge, and when he sat down he spilled it everywhere. Got all mad and when he got up to clean the mess, his glasses fell off and he stepped on them. The only other pair he had.

LOL, yeah, this is bad isn't it? Well, lets go on shall we?

He cleaned up the mess, and while determining if the glasses were salvagable (at least temporarily) he accidentally spilled his drink (a Super Big Gulp of iced tea) on his bed. At this point he lost it and just stormed out of his apartment.

When he returned after thirty minutes, his wife said he looked half crazed. He made a bee line to a cabinet, opened it up, grabbed an almost full bottle of jack and started gulping it. She said he had knocked out about 1/3 of it before she could stop him. Within moments he was sloshed, and calmer.

HIs night got better after that, but while he was gone he went to buy beer. After purchasing it and going to the car, he accidentally dropped it and broke every bottle. He had enough and drowned himself in a bottle of jack.

Hilarious story, if you ask me. The next day they got an old 60 gb to mount and it is running well....just without much storage space for him.

[bUqLfXRI]

Geez this guy has the magic touch. Course when you touch everything from the bottom of a shot glass....

[h98hhYxM]

I have three "old" workstations at work. I am wanting 1 of them for an employee who doesn't have a computer at his desk. His position doesn't really call for it, but it would enable him to do some things more efficiently. Since the "old" workstations have Win2k on them (they are IBM NetVista Pent 4's, 40gb HD, 1.8 ghz) and need to be reimaged, i was going to go with Ubuntu. Virus free, no cost, and i am familiar with it enough to keep the machine up and running.

Here is my problem:

The first computer, when i tried to install Ubuntu, ran the install and then gave me an I/O error. It won't respond with anything useful now.

Pulled out a second computer. When i tried to install Ubuntu it went through the steps and then started to restart repeatedly. Now when i boot it, it says there is no OS. When i try to install Ubuntu, it does not list the HD has being part of the directory. Without a root directory, i cannot get past the Partitioning Step.

Before i brick a 3rd machine, any ideas on what i have done wrong? Could there be a security piece in it that blocks the reimage, forcing me to destroy rather than recycle the HD?

[BypeVupyide]

try noapic nolapic kernel options.

[medprof]

you know ponderous...i am somewhat savvy. but not THAT savvy.

can you explain?

[MightyMasd]

you know ponderous...i am somewhat savvy. but not THAT savvy.

can you explain?

Explanation here -> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Let me know if that helps.

[freddyujnf]

outstanding. i sure will.

it is too late in the day to try again, but i will hit it in the morning.

[WomanBreast40356]

Pondy beat me to it but he's a Linux geek too. What those options are doing is disabling some hardware checks that older computers might choke on. Ubuntu will skip loading the drivers for that kind of hardware. Helps on older machines. And you can't brick a PC. There is nothing that Fdisk the linux or the dos version can't fix.

[Alexunda]

see, that is what i was trying to do. But i don't know how to do it in Linux. Once i messed up the HD, i figured if i could get it to boot, i could just fdisk it and have a fresh start.

i know the disc image is good. i have installed that image on 2 cpu's already.

[gogona]

I don't think you've messed up the hard drive on any of them. Linux is simply crashing because it is trying to load acpi driver. Reinstall with the noapic nolapci switches and you'll bypass that.

[Theariwinna]

alright....so i tried it on both of the machines i had messed with already. No change. When the splash screen came on i hit Esc and put the X in front of both APIC and LAPIC.

On the first machine, what happens is i get to the point where i tell it to start the install and the install starts running. then it stops and "derps". It is slightly different each time, but similar. Right now it is flashing on the top half of the screen (bottom half is blank) with black and white lines that are about 1/2" thick.

On the second machine, it will attempt to run the setup, but when i come to the part where you partition the drives there are no directories listed. It is like the HD has unmounted itself or something. This machine has suddenly developed a weird clicking sound. I cannot identify if it is the CDROM, HD, or fan. I think it is the HD, however (when i ejected the CDROM it kept making that sound).

I would try the third machine, but i don't want to start making mistakes on it, too. Is there a way that i can nuke it and "start over"? Like no OS had ever been loaded to begin with? It could be like my own little Lazarus.

[Triiooman]

1st computer: Add VGA 771 to the boot line. Or use the menus to select the lowest possible video setup.
2nd computer: Sounds like a bad hard drive. Does it sound like the excessive clicking on this page: http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.c...recovery-tips/
3rd computer: From the problems you have described I don't think you've managed to get far enough to change the data on the HDD. I bet they still boot to windows. Even if you have the install process NUKES the disk. If you got far enough to the screen to see HDD info and make choices about how to install then you NUKED the disk. The install will fail with IO errors otherwise. So far everything you've described sounds like video.

[Chubrehege]

OK, i added in the vga=771 script on the bootline, and booted it with aspic and laspic disabled. It ran the install did the same thing. Right now it is blinking. I am able to read it if i am patient and have my eyes out of focus. It says:

"Ubuntu Support.................................Checking Battery State.......................................inar[ ok ]
Pulseaudio configured for per user sessions.......................................... ...[ ok ]"

The ".........." is blank space. I would upload a picture, but i cannot time the shutter "just right".

Could there be an audio conflict? It appears as though it is trying to reset the video service, as there is at first a cursor in the upper left corner, then the message blinks on real fast, blinks off, and the monitor loses its color/light like the signal was reset on it.