rebeltaz
March 18th, 2009, 07:45 AM
First of all, I's would like to say that I love Ubuntu. I had never used Linux before, but I grew up programming in DOS, so I was no stranger to the command line. My first foray into Linux was Ubuntu Server that I installed sans-GUI to run my web server - which has been going strong for over a year now!
Then I purchased a new laptop on Woot that had some stripped down command-line Linux on it. I installed the latest 8.10 Ubuntu on her and i have been converting all of my computers to Linux ever since!
Here's my problem... I have an old Fujitsu Stylistic 3400 touchscreen notebook that I want to put Ubuntu on. The problem is that I do not have a CD drive or a floppy drive for it. I have both in USB versions, but this thing will not boot from a USB device. What I did was I pulled the hard drive out and put it in an old laptop with a CD drive. Then I ran the Ubuntu CD and let it install the everything to the hard drive. When it ejected the CD and wanted to reboot, I shut the computer down, took the hard drive out of the laptop and put it back in the notebook. Then when I turned the notebook on, the installation completed on that - no hardware issues at all ;) (well, except for the stylus, but that is a later problem).
The problem with that is that, for some reason, 8.10 kept hanging on install on the laptop. The only other disc I had was an old 5.10 I had gotten a while back. That is the disc that I had to use to install it. I figured I could always upgrade later over the internet - the notebook has both a PCMCIA wireless card and a LAN connection. Following the directions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes, I modified the repository list so that 5.10 could update itself. After that, I tried to upgrade to the 6.06 distro. That keeps giving me 404 File Not Found errors.
Is it still possible for me to upgrade the 5.10 to... well, anything higher?
I plan on using this as a large screen GPS navigation unit in a vehicle, so I need to make sure the software I've chosen will work on it.
Thanks...
Then I purchased a new laptop on Woot that had some stripped down command-line Linux on it. I installed the latest 8.10 Ubuntu on her and i have been converting all of my computers to Linux ever since!
Here's my problem... I have an old Fujitsu Stylistic 3400 touchscreen notebook that I want to put Ubuntu on. The problem is that I do not have a CD drive or a floppy drive for it. I have both in USB versions, but this thing will not boot from a USB device. What I did was I pulled the hard drive out and put it in an old laptop with a CD drive. Then I ran the Ubuntu CD and let it install the everything to the hard drive. When it ejected the CD and wanted to reboot, I shut the computer down, took the hard drive out of the laptop and put it back in the notebook. Then when I turned the notebook on, the installation completed on that - no hardware issues at all ;) (well, except for the stylus, but that is a later problem).
The problem with that is that, for some reason, 8.10 kept hanging on install on the laptop. The only other disc I had was an old 5.10 I had gotten a while back. That is the disc that I had to use to install it. I figured I could always upgrade later over the internet - the notebook has both a PCMCIA wireless card and a LAN connection. Following the directions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes, I modified the repository list so that 5.10 could update itself. After that, I tried to upgrade to the 6.06 distro. That keeps giving me 404 File Not Found errors.
Is it still possible for me to upgrade the 5.10 to... well, anything higher?
I plan on using this as a large screen GPS navigation unit in a vehicle, so I need to make sure the software I've chosen will work on it.
Thanks...