TheKramer
November 25th, 2008, 08:22 AM
So, I've always used Windows (or DOS back in the day), and I finally decided to try out Ubuntu, only I can't.
I'm moderately computer savvy (build my own computers... although this isn't one of my builds I'm installing on, do a little computer programming, etc.), but I'm just having no luck here. Here are the things I've tried.
1) I've tried both versions (8.10 and 8.04).
2) I've tried multiple download sites (all U.S. and relatively close to me).
3) I've downloaded using multiple browsers to download (IE, Firefox, and Chrome).
4) I've downloaded onto 2 different computers (a desktop and a laptop, both pretty new).
5) I've burned the CDs using two different drives.
6) I've used 3 different burning software packages.
7) I'm using checksum and they check out fine.
8) I've burned using multiple speeds (including the slowest available on each drive/software combo which happened to be 10x and 12x, I believe).
So far only of the many CDs I've created actually worked (the rest just tried to boot and had an error or just loaded back into Windows without booting).
The one that booted showed an error when I ran the check on it. I tried to install off it anyway, but it failed on the partition step (may have been my fault, I didn't have a mouse hooked up, and I think I miss hit a key). Next time I tried to boot, it booted, but when I hit install there were some graphical glitches and then it eventually blackscreened and froze. When I hit some keys, the drive seemed to start spinning again, but it stayed blackscreened.
I'm really frustrated and have no idea what to do from here.
The only thing I could think of was a faulty CD drive. I'm currently installing a game, and it seems to be installing fine (and I've had no indications that there is anything wrong with the CD drive).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
I'm about ready to give up and just go back to Windows and forget Ubuntu ever existed after all of this hassle.
I'm moderately computer savvy (build my own computers... although this isn't one of my builds I'm installing on, do a little computer programming, etc.), but I'm just having no luck here. Here are the things I've tried.
1) I've tried both versions (8.10 and 8.04).
2) I've tried multiple download sites (all U.S. and relatively close to me).
3) I've downloaded using multiple browsers to download (IE, Firefox, and Chrome).
4) I've downloaded onto 2 different computers (a desktop and a laptop, both pretty new).
5) I've burned the CDs using two different drives.
6) I've used 3 different burning software packages.
7) I'm using checksum and they check out fine.
8) I've burned using multiple speeds (including the slowest available on each drive/software combo which happened to be 10x and 12x, I believe).
So far only of the many CDs I've created actually worked (the rest just tried to boot and had an error or just loaded back into Windows without booting).
The one that booted showed an error when I ran the check on it. I tried to install off it anyway, but it failed on the partition step (may have been my fault, I didn't have a mouse hooked up, and I think I miss hit a key). Next time I tried to boot, it booted, but when I hit install there were some graphical glitches and then it eventually blackscreened and froze. When I hit some keys, the drive seemed to start spinning again, but it stayed blackscreened.
I'm really frustrated and have no idea what to do from here.
The only thing I could think of was a faulty CD drive. I'm currently installing a game, and it seems to be installing fine (and I've had no indications that there is anything wrong with the CD drive).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
I'm about ready to give up and just go back to Windows and forget Ubuntu ever existed after all of this hassle.