Please ensure to send your mail to the list, not to me directly. Other comments below.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 13, 2008 4:30 PM, <<a href="mailto:murraymckee@wellsfargo.com">murraymckee@wellsfargo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Matthew</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I have two physical drives. "C" is the old Windows 95
drive. S/B about 6 Gig. "D" was empty until Linux was installed on
it. </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Windows started up with a scan because it wasn't shut down
correctly last time and said it found some place on the hard drive that
needed fixed and I said go a head and it did. Now windows won't
boot.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Results of fdisk</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">disk /dev/sda 1614 MB ** That seems way too
small</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">64 heads ** This seems way too large</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">/dev/sda * 1 780 W95 FAT32</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">disk /dev/sdb 10.6 GB</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">255 heads ** This seems way too large as
well</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">/dev/sdb1 * 1 1200 Linux</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">/dev/sdb2 1201 1245 Extended</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">/dev/sdb5 1201 1245 Linux swap /
Solaris</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">It looks to me like the last two have been assigned the
same range of cylinders.</font></span></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">So it
looks like both hard drives have been marked as bootable.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I
updated my machine to 128 MB ram after it failed to boot Linux with the 32
that it had when it ran Windows. That's as much as the mother board will
accept.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Boot
Sequence is currently set to</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">floppy</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">CD</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">HD1 =
"C"</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">not
used</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">When I
try to start windows it comes up and allows you to F1 into
setup</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">After
that it scans the 128 MB of memory</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">It
attempts to read the empty floppy drive and then does a hard power off.
I'm assuming that it tries to read the CD as well, but I can't hear
it.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">The
errors are happening during the install.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I'm on
a slow phone line. Good connections are 22K - 24K connections and they
degrade to slower speeds as large files down load. Downloading a CD is not
a practical </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">P.S.
what command do I issue to close the terminal window?</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>With 128M of memory you'll need to use the "alternate CD" method of installation instead of the live CD. Even then Ubuntu and Kubuntu aren't ideal for a computer like this. There is Xubuntu, designed for older computers. However, using the text mode installer I've run Ubuntu OK on 128M of RAM on a 550MHz PC.<br>
<br>Do you have a laptop? Can you stop in at a Panera or the mall for lunch and download the CD and burn it?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode