I have been attempting to install Linux for the last few days now and have had no luck. As a 2nd year Computer Science student at university, I don't normally have problems like this but I've never had anything to do with Linux before and its all completely new to me! At first I was trying to install openSuse 10.2 but despite downloading 2 DVD ISO images from different sources, I couldn't get either to work. They would always tell me something about an installation file not being correct, and would say that the MD5Sum did not match or something. But I don't really want to wait to download another 3.6Gb file for the same thing to happen again!
If it helps, here are my specs:
Pentium 4 3.06 GHz processor
1 GB DDR RAM
160 GB Hard drive (with an 8Gb logical partition using the 'ext3' file system for linux - windows XP SP2 is installed on the other main partition)
80 GB Hard drive containing music/videos etc....
Let me know if you need any more specs.
Because I couldn't get openSuse to work, now I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 6.10 as it seems to be the favourite choice for many users of this forum. I downloaded "ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso" as I thought it would be the correct version given my specs, but I can't get this to work either! It simply doesn't even boot! I have selected to boot from my DVD drive before the hard drive, and I had no problems booting the openSuse DVD so it shouldn't be a problem with my settings. With the Ubuntu CD in the drive nothing boots up at all, not even Windows. All that happens is that I see the following line, and then it stays there:
ISOLINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
I do not have a floppy disk drive on my PC by the way, so that is not an option. What else can I try to install either one of these distributions? I don't really mind which one.
Thanks, and sorry for the long post!
If it helps, here are my specs:
Pentium 4 3.06 GHz processor
1 GB DDR RAM
160 GB Hard drive (with an 8Gb logical partition using the 'ext3' file system for linux - windows XP SP2 is installed on the other main partition)
80 GB Hard drive containing music/videos etc....
Let me know if you need any more specs.
Because I couldn't get openSuse to work, now I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 6.10 as it seems to be the favourite choice for many users of this forum. I downloaded "ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso" as I thought it would be the correct version given my specs, but I can't get this to work either! It simply doesn't even boot! I have selected to boot from my DVD drive before the hard drive, and I had no problems booting the openSuse DVD so it shouldn't be a problem with my settings. With the Ubuntu CD in the drive nothing boots up at all, not even Windows. All that happens is that I see the following line, and then it stays there:
ISOLINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
I do not have a floppy disk drive on my PC by the way, so that is not an option. What else can I try to install either one of these distributions? I don't really mind which one.
Thanks, and sorry for the long post!