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mynameismud
April 26th, 2009, 11:52 AM
Hi
i have tryed for some time now to get ubutnu installed on my PC (also has xp on it) it will not boot from a live disc (its not the disc i have made many copys) it starts to load but then just drops me to a shell (ash) command line i have tryed typing startx here but it does not recognize it. any solutions?
thanks :)

Triptol
April 26th, 2009, 03:48 PM
Try the alternative cd.

mynameismud
April 26th, 2009, 04:24 PM
that didnt work either.

mynameismud
April 26th, 2009, 07:46 PM
i managed to get into ubutnu through windows xp so i installed it and installed grub i then tryed to get to ubuntu but it still displayed the same results so therefor it is nothing to do witht he disc (i think).
it says something about busybox first

Triptol
April 27th, 2009, 07:59 PM
What do you mean when you say: get into Ubuntu through Windows?