Dualbooted Successfully

[Jamesy]

Fantastic, I used EASYBCD to add ubuntu to the Windows Vista boot manager, as to avoid parently confusion ;) and right now I have booted into linux on a 20gb partition. Vista has the bigger partition as I plan to use it more. This is just my playing around secret pr0n stash ;)

If anyone wants the tut's I used, PM me and I will send them when I boot into Vista.

[Breakfloor]

well done, is it working well?

[Jamesy]

Yeah, just doing updates. Isn't that just the worst bit of isntalling a new OS, putting the hundreds of new updates in? Although compiz is one of them so :D

[Breakfloor]

i hope it works ok after all the updates. my friend dual booted windows 98 with windows vista (i dont know why he would want to do that.) and it totally failed after vistas updates.

[Prick]

I'm still having trouble with my ubuntu :/
Won't detect my graphics card

[Jordan,]

can u send tut please

[Jamesy]

I erm broke something. I managed to make my pc lose the network card! I have no idea what the hell to do and spent 2 hours wrestling just to get it to use the wireless dongle my sister got with her router.

:'(

[Prick]

I erm broke something. I managed to make my pc lose the network card! I have no idea what the hell to do and spent 2 hours wrestling just to get it to use the wireless dongle my sister got with her router.

:'(

Well i've spent 3 hours of my life earlier trying to get ubuntu to find my screen using thousands of terminal commands and it still won't work

[Stephen]

Ubuntu was just too much trouble for me trying to get my graphics drivers installed I just gave up. I mean, why can't they just have a file that you run and then that's it? I don't want to go into the kernel and crap to install something. It should be easy not hard. That is why I prefer windows or mac over linux.

[Prick]

Ubuntu was just too much trouble for me trying to get my graphics drivers installed I just gave up. I mean, why can't they just have a file that you run and then that's it? I don't want to go into the kernel and crap to install something. It should be easy not hard. That is why I prefer windows or mac over linux.

Did you have same trouble as me where it couldn't detect your screen?

[Stephen]

Well it didn't detect my graphics card even when I finally managed to install the drivers

[Prick]

Well it didn't detect my graphics card even when I finally managed to install the drivers

thats the exact same thing I'm getting and it actually eventually messed up and I couldn't boot my computer and in the end I had to do complete restore :/

[Stephen]

I had an 8800GTS at the time. Now I have an 8800GT, i doubt much has changed so i'm not going to try it again.

[Prick]

Yeah I'm using a 8800gt

[Jamesy]

If one Distro doesn't work, try another. Fedora I used before and found to be very professional.

[Prick]

If one Distro doesn't work, try another. Fedora I used before and found to be very professional.

ugh 3gb though overnight job i'd say

[Jamesy]

yeah. I'm now doing the bloody updates for the hundredth time :rolleyes:

[Tawmu]

I had an 8800GTS at the time. Now I have an 8800GT, i doubt much has changed so i'm not going to try it again.

Yeah I'm using a 8800gt

Meh, my Gainward Bliss 512MB 8800GT works perfectly on Ubuntu when I have a working motherboard.

[Jamesy]

I decided to scare my parents and call the Linux partition ERROR on the windows boot manager :rolleyes:

[Prick]

Meh, my Gainward Bliss 512MB 8800GT works perfectly on Ubuntu when I have a working motherboard.

Mine just won't detect the screen

But in the error log it comes up a list of graphics cards but 8800gt isn't in it and then after it it says the screen isn't detected

[Prick]

Arr I finally decide to do an overnight job to install fedora..

Wake up at about 6am to get a drink, computers shutdown (my mum shut it down) guess where it was....

2mb from completed :rolleyes:

[Jamesy]

I got bored and took back the partition for vista :D

[Mentor]

When people say it wont detect the screen, by any chance is it hanging after the boot scripts loady bit?
Easiest fix for that is boot back in in linux safe mode, so u get just the terminal and reconfigure xwindows.
Worked for me :)

[Jamesy]

It' not that I coudn't use linux, it's that I found I had no purpose in doing it. I just like experimenting :)

[Prick]

When people say it wont detect the screen, by any chance is it hanging after the boot scripts loady bit?
Easiest fix for that is boot back in in linux safe mode, so u get just the terminal and reconfigure xwindows.
Worked for me :)

Could you explain please

btw I've tried editing my xorg.conf but it just gives me a blank editing screen

[Jamesy]

Could you explain please

btw I've tried editing my xorg.conf but it just gives me a blank editing screen

THAT'S WHAT BROKE MY INTERNET!

you don't want to **** around too much in things you don't understand.

[Prick]

THAT'S WHAT BROKE MY INTERNET!

you don't want to **** around too much in things you don't understand.

Yeah theres ment to be different categories in that file like monitor, network etc but mines black :/

[Mentor]

run this command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
That should bring up the dialog... if im remembering right at least, stick with the defualt options and it should hopefully work.

[Prick]

run this command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
That should bring up the dialog... if im remembering right at least, stick with the defualt options and it should hopefully work.

Tried that and it didn't work anyway I'm just gonna download fedora and try it now