loading ubuntu sucks

DummyTron · 01-24-2006, 04:35 PM

Ubuntu sucks..

I got the CD....i formatted my Windows 98 because it was really messed up. So i want to pop this in....but nothing happens....it detects CD-ROM and the CD but their are no boot files... HOW ELSE DO I INSTALL THIS DUMB PIECE OF FECES.

man.....any chance i can magically download windows operating system ?

void · 01-24-2006, 05:05 PM

If thats your attitude to a small problem, them forget Linux altogether. I take it you've downloaded the ISO and burned that to disk. Did you check the MD5 sum of the ISO? If you didn't then the ISO maybe corrupt. But check before you download again. What part of the install does it get stuck at?

DummyTron · 01-24-2006, 05:36 PM

o i actually ordered the CD, i turn it on and it cant even detect the boot file....

void · 01-24-2006, 05:40 PM

Have you changed your bios settings to boot from CD.

DummyTron · 01-24-2006, 05:41 PM

Indeed.

Sevoma · 01-24-2006, 07:19 PM

It could be a bad burn. That does not mean ubuntu sucks.

DummyTron · 01-24-2006, 08:08 PM

wow...bad burn on 3 CD's??? Perhaps their is a possiblity. Anyway im about to burn the program from the internet to see what happens now.

DummyTron · 01-24-2006, 09:02 PM

O here is more news...i dont think Windows 98 is completely terminated because when i popped ini the CD

i get the words Windows 98 1985-1998 copyright blah blah

C:/>

....so im thinking thats not supposed to happend....i already formatted the hard drive twice..how do i get rid of it so i can load ubuntu.....

Qiranworms · 01-24-2006, 10:32 PM

That's because you're booting off the Windows CD, and it can load a varient of DOS. It has nothing to do with what's on (or not on) your HD, and even if it was, the Ubuntu installer (if you can get it to run) will be able to totally wipe the drive again if necessary (which I doubt).

Anyhow, it's definitely not the CD if it's happened on three of them. If the CD image had no boot files, you wouldn't have been the first person to have a problem with it by any means

. It's something related to your computer, probably on the BIOS side, but I can't think of what it is at the moment. See if anyone else here has any idea. It's a bit strange that you can boot from the Windows 98 CD while the Ubuntu CD, by the same methods, won't work. Same drive, same BIOS settings and all, right?

kewlman · 01-24-2006, 10:32 PM

there is probable something written to your master boot record a fdisk /mbr will clear the master boot record for you. what version of ubuntu are you trying to use and what are the specs of the computer you are using?

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