mikemykel
February 25th, 2009, 02:15 AM
Hi; I bought a eMachine notebook a couple of weeks ago through Woot and it looks like a fairly decent machine for the price ($300.) It claimed to be ready for Linux with a distro called Linpus installed. I bought it because I have been curious about Linux for quite a while and simply want something I can use to learn on.
However, I cannot get it to boot off the eMachine disc that came with it at all. I get a long scroll of white on black stuff I do not understand with a place for a command prompt at the end. I tried all the different boot options I could find but to no avail. I then tried to use a Ubuntu 8.4 both as live and an install. Either way it boots and finally the screen shows a very distorted image of five Hardy Hurons with a lot of horizontal lines and nothing intelligible.
a. Is the machine itself defective?
b. Would it help if I stripped the old installation out and if so how do I do that?
c. I bought a book Ubuntu for Non Geeks 3rd ed. by Rickford Grant and am willing to do my homework -- however?
d. Would anyone like to buy a Notebook eMachine and a fat manual real cheep.
By the way, eMachine Customer Service is very nice but no one there knows anything about Linux. Nothing!
Thanks, Mike Mykel
However, I cannot get it to boot off the eMachine disc that came with it at all. I get a long scroll of white on black stuff I do not understand with a place for a command prompt at the end. I tried all the different boot options I could find but to no avail. I then tried to use a Ubuntu 8.4 both as live and an install. Either way it boots and finally the screen shows a very distorted image of five Hardy Hurons with a lot of horizontal lines and nothing intelligible.
a. Is the machine itself defective?
b. Would it help if I stripped the old installation out and if so how do I do that?
c. I bought a book Ubuntu for Non Geeks 3rd ed. by Rickford Grant and am willing to do my homework -- however?
d. Would anyone like to buy a Notebook eMachine and a fat manual real cheep.
By the way, eMachine Customer Service is very nice but no one there knows anything about Linux. Nothing!
Thanks, Mike Mykel