Forum: Installation

Hi i lost XP due to a scratched CD but i didnt know that when i was reformatting and well only OS's i had were Debian which is INSANELY hard for me...

This takes forever to run from a 1.4 Gentoo build is that normal?

So I made the decision to leave Windows for good. Yay, me. I installed Kubuntu (hated KDE), installed Ubuntu (meh, needed MP3 codecs and stuff) and...

Hello everyone. Hope someone here can help me. I have a "custom" laptop made by a company called B3. I like the computer, but Im sick of Windows and...

First post: Plea to the masses. I understand. I bow to the collective knowledge here. I've read so many threads without finding a similar problem....

Hi all. I'd lik to test various linux distros on an old platform, but I don't have a CD burner. Is it possible to "burn" an ISO image to a USB pen?...

I am installing Fedora Core 6. Everything goes fine, until the machine tries to boot up and go into the grapphical mode, then I get this message on...

Hi, My machine is getting an error in booting and keeps automatically rebooting. The error message: "cannot find password database". This...

I have second hard drive on my desktop that I use to try various Linux distros. After many successful and failed installations the drive is a mess of...

yellow dog 5.0.2 installation on an iMac G4 700MHZ, installation was going well, until i got an "exception occurred" :???: popup window. It goes like...

I did a clean install on Windows and installed Win Professional. Originally on the old Win Home Edition I had dual booted using Ububtu 7.04. It...

When I try to start up the computer all I get is about 2 lines of GRUB GRUB... This also happens when I try to boot from CD, which is annoying. It...

Having had a bad experience in the past with a reformatted hard drive, I could really use some help on getting a dual boot system set up. I have...

Hi there i'm a pretty new linux user running Mandrake 9.1. (although im a bit experienced, so i do know how to use the command line decently and i...

I just got done re-installing XP, and now it has claimed boot priviledges. I have no clue where to even start to try and get the comp to bring up...

I finally got Mandriva installed on RAID1 using two identical 160GB SATA disks, partitioned thus: 500MB /boot /dev/md0 2GB swap /dev/sda2...

On Fedroa 6 and 7 no matter what I tried it would always get to the "Installing Keybord" section and freeze up. I used a PS2 keyoard and a USB...