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Linux argh
Oct. 26th, 2008 04:06 pmBased on a couple of recommendations, I decided Ubuntu would be my best choice. Downloaded the Desktop Iso of Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron, burned the image to a CD, intending to then install Ubuntu on my USB drive to get it to Escrita the Netbook (because the netbook doesn't have a CD drive)...and failure.
Dr Reid the Desktop will boot from the CD, it lets me choose English, then when I say to "Try Ubuntu without changing your computer" I get "Kernel Panic - Not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs..." The few Unix commands I remember from my days at Purdue don't help me with this. Googling this error turns up a lot of hits, but none of the answers are written with complete and utter n00bs in mind. Apparently I am expected to know something about Linux before I go installing it on a machine, even to play with it.
Ugh, this is why I have said over and over that I learn best when someone shows me how to do something, rather than trying to read about it and learn it on my own. The one exception to that rule has been HTML, but even there I have been unable to teach myself CSS effectively, as my horribly basic and ugly website effectively proves.
*tears hair* I thought this would be somewhat easier than it has been so far.
Dr Reid the Desktop will boot from the CD, it lets me choose English, then when I say to "Try Ubuntu without changing your computer" I get "Kernel Panic - Not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs..." The few Unix commands I remember from my days at Purdue don't help me with this. Googling this error turns up a lot of hits, but none of the answers are written with complete and utter n00bs in mind. Apparently I am expected to know something about Linux before I go installing it on a machine, even to play with it.
Ugh, this is why I have said over and over that I learn best when someone shows me how to do something, rather than trying to read about it and learn it on my own. The one exception to that rule has been HTML, but even there I have been unable to teach myself CSS effectively, as my horribly basic and ugly website effectively proves.
*tears hair* I thought this would be somewhat easier than it has been so far.
