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OS woes

So its kinda a slow day here, so I've spent the better part of the day working on getting Ubuntu installed on the home computer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ubuntu it is a linux based Operating System that is supposed to be one of the best out there.

I've installed it before on other machines and have had little problems. But today I seem to be running into all sorts of problems.

The first thing I ran into was support for my Radeon 9200 video card. Its not exactly top of the line here, I didn't think it would be any sort of problem. But apparently it is. So I take that out dig out the video card that came with the computer and installed that one....ok moving on now.

Takes a while to install, no surprises here. It installs successfully and then it proceeds to install a plethora of updates. Ok, so all those are done.

I should have mentioned earlier that I am trying to dual boot XP and Ubuntu on two different hard drives. I have my XP hard drive sitting next to me. So, after Ubuntu is done with everything, I attempt to slave the XP hard drive. I only have one jumper so, I put it on the Ubuntu drive to make it the master, in order to slave the other I need another jumper. I don't know why both hard drives don't have a jumper, but whatever. So I plug both of them in, and hit the power button. and then i just get a black screen....nothing happens. This is cause of the only one jumper and both drives apparently thinking that they are the master.

Ok, so I unplug the XP drive, and just figure I'll run out to CompUSA or something and pick up another jumper and I'll be set.

So I remove the XP drive and just left the Ubuntu one in as master/single drive. So you'd think it just boot up like it did last time, and everything would be fine. Well you'd be wrong, much like I was.

I can't get the graphics card to work anymore. I don't know what the difference is. So I'm sitting here watching the install all over again. And I just thought that I'd let the blogosphere know.

Labels: rant, Ubuntu

posted by Tom Becker at 3/20/2008