I have an old laptop and I'm installing Linux on it to just fool around with and learn a little here and there over time. I installed Ubuntu on it, restarted, when it started back up, I got http://imgur.com/iBPrDni
Any idea?
Hello,
I'm trying to install Linux computer brand Positive
MS-7267 see 4.5 (945GCM5 v2)
Intel Celeron 420 1.6 GHz
2GB DDR2 memory
80GB HD
I believe he was previously with Windows 7 installed (but the original factory is Vista Starter)
I used the KillDisk for formatting, and overwrite zeros, and apparently it was all OK.
When trying to install Elementary OS (DVD) or Ubuntu (another DVD), appears the keyboard and the doll:
http://imgur.com/0OqZYBv
but later it goes to black screen with a list of errors.
List errors when trying to install Elementary OS:
http://imgur.com/OV8ji6m
List errors when trying to install Ubuntu:
http://imgur.com/4dnmE2O
Too tried the Mageia (DVD)
The following installation screen appears: http://imgur.com/KaAyBeW
I tried to add some parameters both in Mageia as The Elemetary and ubuntu (after pressing F6), as
acpi = off noapic nolapic nodma PNPBIOS nomodeset irqpoll xdriver = vesa resolution = 1024x768 and nothing, changed nothing
In Mageia, when I click install linux kernel appears the load popup and always goes to 100%, but then just goes black screen passes 10, 20 minutes and not change anything
Selecting Mageia hardware detection option appears the information below:
http://imgur.com/4GwHUeE
http://imgur.com/8ZcbS1C
http://imgur.com/mLQrclq
http://imgur.com/qmRZ09J
http://imgur.com/OCCdx6b
http://imgur.com/IYQM4BC
http://imgur.com/gpFF7I0
In the bios setup already disable IOAPIC, checked if the vga is 8mb and TBM does not change anything:
screens is set as:
http://imgur.com/UzLPOT0
http://imgur.com/KY7ksGh
http://imgur.com/SDzWKje
I'm three days trying to install Linux and I can not.
I thank those who can help
Hello, I'm having a problem on Kali Linux. I've added some shotcuts to the top panel but it shifts to the left from time to time until I cannot see anything I cant even click on Applications menu because it clicks the shortcut behind it.
Example:
http://i.imgur.com/gV4s3FY.png
http://i.imgur.com/ZelH4Kh.png
http://i.imgur.com/kVJ5ruR.png
It fixes when I log out and log in again. I'm looking for a permanent solution, any help?
Thanks.
Hi ,
I'm new to Linux , I installed Kali linux on my pc and the wifi card isn't working ..
It is a usb wifi card , It has a cd for its driver. There is a folder in the cd called " Linux Driver " and here's what is inside it
First folder :
http://imgur.com/WTNgnEm
Second folder :
http://imgur.com/PyH07Cs
And here it is when I write lsusb :
http://i.imgur.com/NiPbbxSh.jpg
I'd like to know the steps to install it , Thanks in advance ..
Hello, so for a good 6 months installing and using Linux on my HP Chromebook 2014 has worked perfectly. Then bam, one day I get on press ctrl+alt+T type in sudo startunity and it doesn't work! I am willing to reset my laptop and reinstall Linux if necessary but if its fixable please let me know! I've been looking around and haven't been able to find anything about this. Here's a screen shot of what it says:
http://imgur.com/YqlX0xw
Personally, I think its because my Chromebook automatically updated itself.
Hi
I'm a telecom/IT contractor and my work laptop died so instead of buying a new one, I decided to give my spare laptop a try. It's a cheap Lenovo G585 with only 2Gb ram and a AMD E1. Needless to say this is a real slow laptop. W8 was preinstalled and barely runs. Even for simple work related tasks its too slow.
Instead of wasting money on it, I am contemplating the idea of installing a Linux distro. I manage via ssh a few linux servers for my customers (centos, red hat, ubuntu server) but actually never used it as my main OS.
I just want something lighter than W8 so the laptop will be faster. Which distro should I get? I was thinking about LXLE but there's too much distros I can't choose.
Speed is the priority in this case. I also like a good looking UI.
Also, how's Microsoft Remote desktop from a Linux client? Is it fast and well optimized?
Thanks!
Hello there! I'm completely new to linux; I've used ubuntu and other distributions but just at user level.
The problem is, I've got a Sony laptop with the inside H2O (3.9) BIOS, don't have the complete specs right now, but i can check them when i'm back at home. It has a NVIDIA 640M LE, 8gb ram, an Intel Core I7 processor, and a 750gb HD.
The screen, although working well enough, is broken, some plastic parts are broken also and it's not in good condition overall. It worked well in every aspect aside from those.
As i have a desktop, computer to work already, I don't need the laptop for working anymore, so I thought it could be a good idea to use it as an entertainment center in the living room, you know, for watching movies, playing some old-school games in local coop with and without emulators and so on.
I thought the still in beta SteamOS (Think it's a Debian-based distro) could be a nice option, so I've installed it. The installation process ran without issues till the first reboot; after that i only get "operating system not found" error and nothing else.
I unplugged the HD and made a complete installation from scrap with every reboot needed in my desktop computer and everything worked out fine: installing games, browsing the web, playing music, etc.
But, after plugging again the HD with the OS installed in the laptop I still get the same error; operating system not found.
Any ideas of how to solve it? Thank you in advance, and sorry about my english
Hello everyone from stackexchange,
I am a total Linux newbie, and for a short school task I have to perform the following action in Linux OpenWRT running in my virtualbox. I have tried multiple commands and googled a lot but I can't get it working. If someone could help me out on what to do, that would be awesome. I have looked through the manuals too but it doesnt seem to work.
Task: http://i.imgur.com/MeLcGJh.png
My OpenWRT screen: http://imgur.com/98OLB9Y
Many thanks.
Hello there,
i've just installed the ubuntu 1.4 version in my laptop alongside a version of windows 7. The problem is that while working with ubuntu i cannot operate the wifi connection to my modem, looks like the driver is not working, any ideas?
thank you in advance
Hi,
I am very new to linux, and frankly I do not know a whole lot about computers in general, as I'm entirely self taught, and that was all on windows. I really like the idea and concept of linux and ubuntu, and am in the process of learning. I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on an ex Vista computer at work (upon the urging by the boss). I can give more information on the system if needed. However, I think the problem may not be with the system. This is what I got. I installed the o/s and started downloading the updates from the list. As I tried to install Samba and Wine, all of a sudden things started to become complicated. As I'm doing this at work, and everyone is excited to 'play' with this new o/s, someone tried to download limewire as well, when I was away. I didn't see the error messages at that point, but they apparently had some message about java, and tried to shut everything down. Now when I came back, I get this message:
E: dpkg was interrupted you must manually run 'dpkg -- configure - a' to correct.
Problem E: _cache->open()failed
So, not knowing much about linux and even less about using the terminal, I did open the terminal, and typed in: dpkg--configure-a and hit enter. Then it tells me that that command is not found.
I have followed some other posts that deal with this problem, however, all the remedies that worked for them did not work for me. I could use some help, please. My other option is to just reinstall the o/s all over and start new. Thank you.
Hi all,
I'm once more trying my hand at Linux, but it's been so long that I've forgotten everything I learned last time and going back in again as a total newbie.
I tried out SteamOS first, but found it much too clunky for my tastes and, despite being based on Debian, seemed to have had a lot of functionality removed and inability to install some packages even after adding in Debian repos to the sources.list, so I ended up switching to vanilla 64-bit Debian 8 using KDE as my desktop. At first things were going good, managed to install the AMD Graphics Drivers and get Steam itself installed, along with downloading/installing a few games.
I then downloaded a game from gog.com but was getting an error message, which on looking it up appeared to be due to my only having 64-bit libraries for my graphics drivers and no 32-bit ones. I did some more Googling, ran some commands and did some apt-get installs (though sadly I can't recall exactly what they were) and eventually, the game launched fine and all appeared well.
The next time I started up my laptop though, Debian just boots straight to a full screen command line, not the desktop GUI that I want, and I have absolutely no idea how to either switch back to the GUI, or make it the default again. I'm not sure if I've somehow removed KDE, the xserver (I think?), somehow disabled one of them or just changed the startup preferences.
I'd really rather not have to reinstall the whole system again, so any suggestions will be very much appreciated!