BewilderedStranger
February 14th, 2010, 06:22 PM
Howdy folks,
I have been thinking that I wanted to try out ubuntu[/URL] for quite some time now. Well I finally initiated the first steps of the operation and have run into a problem before even getting a glimpse of the desktop[URL="http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/content/video-card-driver-problemi-think#"] (http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/content/video-card-driver-problemi-think#). Haha typical. I donloaded the iso and burned it and started looking at partitioning everything and I have a question about that as well but I'll get to that in a moment. I decided before I went through all the hassle of installing it and partitioning drives I'd check it out on the live cd. So I restart and boot from the cd and it works up to the black loading screen with the little symbol in the middle then my monitor switches to blue and gives me the no signal message. It never returns. I would assume my video card is not supported or something along those lines. Also I am currently running vista x64 and when I go to shrink my partition I notice that if I shrink my partition it doesn't get very small at all. I think this may be because I have all kinds of media files and things like that on the partition with windows. When I do set this all up I wanna be able to access all of my files from either os. The best option I could think of was to create a new partition and shift everything to it that was important then reload vista Which doesn't sound fun because it is a very messy and buggy oem copy. Anyhow What do you all think are my best options? Or where can I turn for support on such a matter? I sure would like to kick windows to the curb.
System Specs:
I7 920
X58 chipset
9gb Ram 1066 mhz
Visiontek ATI Radeon HD4850
I have been thinking that I wanted to try out ubuntu[/URL] for quite some time now. Well I finally initiated the first steps of the operation and have run into a problem before even getting a glimpse of the desktop[URL="http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/content/video-card-driver-problemi-think#"] (http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/content/video-card-driver-problemi-think#). Haha typical. I donloaded the iso and burned it and started looking at partitioning everything and I have a question about that as well but I'll get to that in a moment. I decided before I went through all the hassle of installing it and partitioning drives I'd check it out on the live cd. So I restart and boot from the cd and it works up to the black loading screen with the little symbol in the middle then my monitor switches to blue and gives me the no signal message. It never returns. I would assume my video card is not supported or something along those lines. Also I am currently running vista x64 and when I go to shrink my partition I notice that if I shrink my partition it doesn't get very small at all. I think this may be because I have all kinds of media files and things like that on the partition with windows. When I do set this all up I wanna be able to access all of my files from either os. The best option I could think of was to create a new partition and shift everything to it that was important then reload vista Which doesn't sound fun because it is a very messy and buggy oem copy. Anyhow What do you all think are my best options? Or where can I turn for support on such a matter? I sure would like to kick windows to the curb.
System Specs:
I7 920
X58 chipset
9gb Ram 1066 mhz
Visiontek ATI Radeon HD4850