linuxishard
January 9th, 2006, 01:58 AM
After installing UBUNTU about 8 (million) times.. i finaly succeded... Without any knowledge of LINUX or for that matter PCs in general...
BUT!
This was after the most frustraighting two days of my life...
WHY....?
well first i wanted to partition my disk so that i could keep my windows OS, so i could keep everything i needed that i couldnt do with LINUX,
this worked first time, but there was a conflict regarding the need for a ROOT password when no password was set in the first place and there was no need for it to ask for one.
Plus most programmes would fail to load compleatly, im still not sure why.
then i tried it again, This time compleatly wipeing everything and simply making UBUNTU the only OS on the PC, this didnt work for a LARGE number of reasons mainly to with the Install failing due to not bieng able to unpack the appropriate Files to the system.
I tried this multiple times.... Untill suddenly it decided that it would work but it would only install the Terminal and not the X side of the OS this was once again down to not installing all of the components from the disk.
With alot of time and effort i finaly mannaged to track down some people that were able to help me find the right set of commands to enter into the terminal to get my PC to Install the missing components. And that took the nest part of a long ass day.
And realy didnt solv a thing, But it did mean that i wasable to use the desktop
The problem then was that nothing would work, once again, This included my internet connection which made things harder because the internet support that i had been able to get before to get that far was no longer there,
So after trying to fix the problems and failing everytime....
i installed it again and well.... It just seemed to work.
In the end i came up with this conclusion,
If you dont know anything about LINUX or just computers THEN STAY AWAY, cos its not easy. and help is real hard to find. Especialy when what you need it to be talked through a process, Such as entering commands into the terminal.
But in the End Even I mannaged to pull it off Even though it took a long time its still Working like it should, And im an idiot.
So i ges if i can do it anyone can.
But thanks to everbody that helped me work out what was wrong and try to fix it. I would have Just Quit and gone back to Windows if it wernt for your help... And that would have sucked...........Thank you:)
BUT!
This was after the most frustraighting two days of my life...
WHY....?
well first i wanted to partition my disk so that i could keep my windows OS, so i could keep everything i needed that i couldnt do with LINUX,
this worked first time, but there was a conflict regarding the need for a ROOT password when no password was set in the first place and there was no need for it to ask for one.
Plus most programmes would fail to load compleatly, im still not sure why.
then i tried it again, This time compleatly wipeing everything and simply making UBUNTU the only OS on the PC, this didnt work for a LARGE number of reasons mainly to with the Install failing due to not bieng able to unpack the appropriate Files to the system.
I tried this multiple times.... Untill suddenly it decided that it would work but it would only install the Terminal and not the X side of the OS this was once again down to not installing all of the components from the disk.
With alot of time and effort i finaly mannaged to track down some people that were able to help me find the right set of commands to enter into the terminal to get my PC to Install the missing components. And that took the nest part of a long ass day.
And realy didnt solv a thing, But it did mean that i wasable to use the desktop
The problem then was that nothing would work, once again, This included my internet connection which made things harder because the internet support that i had been able to get before to get that far was no longer there,
So after trying to fix the problems and failing everytime....
i installed it again and well.... It just seemed to work.
In the end i came up with this conclusion,
If you dont know anything about LINUX or just computers THEN STAY AWAY, cos its not easy. and help is real hard to find. Especialy when what you need it to be talked through a process, Such as entering commands into the terminal.
But in the End Even I mannaged to pull it off Even though it took a long time its still Working like it should, And im an idiot.
So i ges if i can do it anyone can.
But thanks to everbody that helped me work out what was wrong and try to fix it. I would have Just Quit and gone back to Windows if it wernt for your help... And that would have sucked...........Thank you:)