choicefresh
May 13th, 2008, 12:06 AM
Everyone was telling me in IRC that I should try Ubuntu, so the first thing I did was download Wubi. Wubi is a Windows-based Ubuntu installer. Unfortunately, after three hours or so, I realized my BIOS wasn't supported.
The next thing I tried was to burn a LiveCD. While at first I had a few issues, and I still can't get my wireless internet to work, I decided I might as well install it because I was getting annoyed losing my settings each time I rebooted. When I tried to partition in the Install Manager, I chose the deafult one that gives 13% to Windows and 87% to Ubuntu. It told me that it could not write the changes to disk, so I rebooted into Windows and ran a defrag. After rebooting into Ubuntu once again, I got the same error, Now it's not even showing that option, and just showing "Guided - use entire disk", "Guided - use largest free space" or "Manual". I was told the default would work best, but apparently that doesn't work.
I'm running Windows XP Professional on a Dell Latitude D620 with Intel Core2 Duo. Is it possible that Ubuntu isn't supported on my system? Or am I doing something wrong?
It seems whatever strategy I try, I get an error. :confused:
The next thing I tried was to burn a LiveCD. While at first I had a few issues, and I still can't get my wireless internet to work, I decided I might as well install it because I was getting annoyed losing my settings each time I rebooted. When I tried to partition in the Install Manager, I chose the deafult one that gives 13% to Windows and 87% to Ubuntu. It told me that it could not write the changes to disk, so I rebooted into Windows and ran a defrag. After rebooting into Ubuntu once again, I got the same error, Now it's not even showing that option, and just showing "Guided - use entire disk", "Guided - use largest free space" or "Manual". I was told the default would work best, but apparently that doesn't work.
I'm running Windows XP Professional on a Dell Latitude D620 with Intel Core2 Duo. Is it possible that Ubuntu isn't supported on my system? Or am I doing something wrong?
It seems whatever strategy I try, I get an error. :confused: