Problems with booting

[viciousad]

I've sucessfullt burned the image file to a cd with nero, but whenever I try to boot from CD I get freezing. I get to the screen where it asks whether I want start/install, start in safe mode, ect and I click the top option where I want to start/install. It then goes through a bit of loading, and eventually it comes to the blue screen with the curser in the middle, and freezes there. Sometimes it loads up the wavey background image and a white bar on the bottom (no buttons, just a bar) but I never get to see the little "install" button at the top left corner like I'm supposed to. What can I do? I really don't want to have to be stuck using windows.

[IgnorantGuru]

Re: Problems with booting

1) try the 'check CD for defects' option
2) try burning the CD at a slower burn rate for greater reliability
3) burn and use the alternate install CD, which is text-only - I've had spotty results with the LiveCD on various machines but the alternate CD worked every time.

[viciousad]

Re: Problems with booting

Awesome, the alternate boot file worked. Thanks. So far I'm loving linux =D

How the hell is it not conquering microsoft? it's far superior!

[IgnorantGuru]

Re: Problems with booting

Glad you got it working. I switched to linux about 2 years ago and never looked back!

[georgeg]

Re: Problems with booting

3) burn and use the alternate install CD, which is text-only -

If its text only, how does it handle partitioning your hard disks? I have a hard time imagining that without some sort of gui. As I'm having problems installing Kubuntu, I may have to give it a try.

[Princey]

Re: Problems with booting

It does have a sort of GUI with the text install. I think it's better calling it 'Alternate CD'. In fact the Alternate CD handles partioning way better than the GUI IMHO. Give it a try.

[dibl]

Re: Problems with booting

If its text only, how does it handle partitioning your hard disks? I have a hard time imagining that without some sort of gui.

It's not really "text only" -- probably "character mode" is a better description. Think of the original Lotus 1-2-3 or something like that -- there are lots of things that can be done with all the ASCI characters to play with on the screen.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Problems with booting

If its text only, how does it handle partitioning your hard disks? I have a hard time imagining that without some sort of gui. As I'm having problems installing Kubuntu, I may have to give it a try.

As one can learn e.g. from the Debian installer (screenshot), "no graphics" does by no means equal "no interface"

But, of course, Dibl is right - only than almost nobody using these forums is old enough to remember Lotus et al.

(I've started misusing computers with these "no frills" spreadsheets - but that's a different story ...)