Topic: Linux anyone?

[anomaly]

yea. did that... it spins and stuff so i know its tryin. but it just doesn't boot from the cd like my windows disks do.

im under the idea that for some reason that the copy i downloaded from boney's link is corrupted some how.

i guess i will try to download it again when it get home.

one question tho has anyone used xubuntu before. and if so will it allow me to install on a different partition? right now i have a 120gig divided up 20/20/70. the first one has win2k the second will be for Linux and the 3rd stores all my media. do you think this will be a problem?

oh and one more thing. how hard will it be to find a driver for my wifi card? the d-link site has no drivers for Linux.

thanks for all your help guys! 

[BoneyOne]

I haven't done the Xubuntu before, but I have done the Ubuntu (on my machine) and Edubutnu (for the kids)...both with different partitions for Windows.

It will run a partition editor during the install so you can further partition, overwrite a partition, etc...it will then install GRUB as your bootloader.

As far as your wi-fi goes...which wifi card do you have?

[anomaly]

http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=WNA%2D2330

[BoneyOne]

After a quick search it appears that yes, the D-Link WNA-2330 is supported without any real problems. Most people say it works straight out of the box (on Ubuntu, same drivers used on Xubuntu).

[anomaly]

sweet! thanks for checking that out for me.

now if i could just get the DAM CD TO BOOT! 

tried burning at a slower speed (4x) didnt help. how should i be burning this cd? as a data disk? boot disk?

im lost, wasted many cd's and feel like giving up... 

[DAwG]

it's prolly the image, you could test it out with vmware, i'm not sure how you would make it bootable

[anomaly]

im pretty sure the original download was messed up. so i started to download the "alternate cd" and the "u.s.dvd" versions and will mess with them later when i get home.

[anomaly]

YAY! 

got xUbuntu installed last night... not sure what the problem was but i downloaded the DVD version and tried it that way. it did not boot from the bios as said earlier.(think it has something to do with the type of "boot file" on that version of Linux because Ubuntu boots fine form the bios) would not boot from win2k ether. so i installed xp and ran the DVD from there and had no probs at all, it seems more sluggish than i thought it would run but i believe this is due to driver issues.

anyway thanks for all your help, and im sure i will be posting on here soon with more noob Linux questions... 

[Kyord]

YAY! 

got xUbuntu installed last night... not sure what the problem was but i downloaded the DVD version and tried it that way. it did not boot from the bios as said earlier.(think it has something to do with the type of "boot file" on that version of Linux because Ubuntu boots fine form the bios) would not boot from win2k ether. so i installed xp and ran the DVD from there and had no probs at all, it seems more sluggish than i thought it would run but i believe this is due to driver issues.

anyway thanks for all your help, and im sure i will be posting on here soon with more noob Linux questions... 

congrats! post away.. 

[BoneyOne]

Cool, congrats.

I hope you enjoy it. 

[anomaly]

thanks man, what the best program for general music listening?

i tried a few last night but i was unable to just drag and drop or double click any mp3/wma file for playing... 

[Kyord]

I wouldn't count on wma (or at least I haven't tried)

You will need to download mp3 codec to support this..  because MP3 is restricted use now, most distributions don't ship with support anymore, you have to get it yourself

This should help a lot: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[anomaly]

sweet man thanks, i already worked my way over to that page last night and installed 2 different media players.... (which took me a bit to figure out to do  ) but yea they didn't do what i wanted them to(or at least not how i wanted them to do it  ). so i guess i just need to find one that works similar to winamp and ill be ok... maybe? lol

[Kyord]

xmms is the closest to winamp for look and feel

[Farmchild]

I always liked gentoo linux, but it can be a pain to setup, as everything is usually compiled ( and I mean pretty much everything ), but it makes it run smoothly, since everything is optimized on your machine.  I think last time I installed it, it took me about 8 hours to compile x-windows and KDE.

It has a really nice package installation system called 'emerge' that calculates dependencies for you and auto configures and compiles packages for you.