[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

Nick Johnson mainbass64 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 15:19:07 CDT 2008


nvidia 6800 le made by evga

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Nick Johnson <mainbass64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey guys, i downloaded wubi, and did the install and everything went
> fine.
> > then when i tried to boot it, it came up and loaded then it was
> > unresponsive. My monitor went to standby because there was no signal
> coming
> > from the computer. My hard drive light was not flashing at all and there
> was
> > absolutely nothing going on. Reinstall? Different distro? or what?
>
> Do you know what kind of video card your computer has?
>
> Also, one thing to try if you have a blank CD - burn the cd image you
> downloaded to disk and boot off the disk. The cd allows you to try
> Ubuntu without installing it by simply running from CD (though it's
> quite slow this way). If it works when booting off the CD then you may
> best be served by doing a traditional install.
>
> The CD image is probably in the same folder that wubi.exe is in.
>
> Sorry you're having problems - but I guess that's what LUGs are for. :-)
>
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
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