Forum: Installation

Hi: Many installation instructions advise the installer to produce a boot disk. But not all distros allow that. Using floppies is not as common...

Just installed Suse 10.2 on a dual boot. Works fine with USB keyboard but I actually use a Microsoft Wireless Optical Bluetooth Keyboard and...

Hi everyone, I have a "HP Pavillion" double hard disk computer. The issue is, is that this computer is the "families" computer and the rest of the...

I tried to install Linux (Red Hat) previously on my old machine. Long story short --- it didn't work. I have a new machine that I built and would...

I plan to dual boot Linux Mint and Windows XP with three different partitions; one for XP, one for Mint, and one for storage that will be shared...

Hi everybody, I was just doing a little light reading and found that yu can install linux on an isolated system with no CD-ROM by temporarily...

My Dell had a 250 Gb with XP installed. Loaded Suse 10.2 which partitioned it and gave me a dual boot - loved it wanted to change. Won't bore u...

Hello all, I've recently acquired an Acer Aspire 5633WLMi which came stock with Windows Media Centre Edition. I have repartitioned my disk and...

I would like to start a discussion about what distributions work with 965P motherboards and to tell one way I got Linux to install. I have a Gigabyte...

Hi all i recently installed FC4 in my PC but i didnt had source.. so i downloaded the corresponding ".src.rpm" and installed that bu using rpm -Uvh...

hope this is the right forum for such a question. sorry if it is :) ok here is the basic jist of my post. I have used gentoo pretty extensively...

I already have 3 partitions, but I cannot delete any of them. so i have to make a logical partition in order to install linux. last time i attemted...

hey, i've recently downloaded dreamlinux download link and i've extracted the iso to the cd... this is what the root of the cd looks like: and...

I already have XP on one drive and I'm trying to install Fedora 5 on the other. It's my third attempt. I follow all the instructions about...

As the title suggests, my windows XP has finally stopped working. I get the nice bright blue "critical stop" screen saying there are corrupted...

When i boot the arch linux cdrom (the full version) I press enter and the machine reboot The machine is a p3 1Ghz 256MB RAM (desktop) 20GB ide...

Hi, I'm new to linux (and this site), but I'm a computer technician at my university (mostly windows computers) but I'm responsible for upgrading 5...

Hi, We've just bought an HP server (DL385 G2) which I need to install RedHat EL4 on. I've created a locigal disk using the ACU from the Smart...

okay so i did the net install iso business debian now what do i do when i get to the black screen ? i tried the su - passowrd kdm startx...