Linux?

alienationware said:
Linux is over-rated. Switched back to WinXP and happy about it.

With Ubuntu, I noticed that every night around 8PM, I get these massive downloads of +200MB out of thin air, even though I am not using the internet at that time... Want to secretly steal my CPU power crunching downloaded (astronomy, or w/e conspiracy) data from NASA/the government eh?
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Uh what? You probably had auto update for your packages, which can be cleaned up after you update them. You just have to know how to do it. Also, what does it matter to you if he wants to learn a new OS or play with Linux? I don't see why people feel the need to always but in with their opinions like that.

Also, I wouldn't worry about any tracking software with Linux, in fact I would be worried about DRM in windows, and all the freaking stuff it does to track what you do and what you install. Of course it isn't the government that has that information, it is Microsoft, but I bet the government could probably get it if they really wanted to. It would just take forever in court, but via the Patriot Act, all they would have to do is link it somehow vaguely to terrorism, and problem solved.

However, you do have a point, which is why I strongly recommed all Linux newbies start off with a virtual machine. That way they don't have to mess with their hard drives, partitions, swap, etc, they can just delete the virtual machine if it goes crazy or when they no longer want to use it. Then they don't mess up their windows installation either. It is a good way to try before you buy so to speak, except you aren't buying Linux. Unless, you buy one of the enterprise versions of it of course.
 
tlarkin said:
Your hard drive is giving I/O errors which is not good. What file system did you format it in?

I still vote you just make a Linux virtual machine.
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yeah i think thats what happened when my laptops hard drive died and i tried to install linux.

the main partition should be formatted to ext3 shouldnt it?
 
Kuzba said:
yeah i think thats what happened when my laptops hard drive died and i tried to install linux.

the main partition should be formatted to ext3 shouldnt it?
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I think most distros work with ext2, ext3 and resier, but the more common one is ext3.
 
your error message when trying to boot linux gives a hard disk I/O error, sda is a hard drive device in Linux.
 
well when you set up the partitions... you formatted them and selected the type right?

maybe you did ntfs or something...
still it should reformat it when you install
 
Put in the disk like you're going to install it again and when it comes time to format, just select the ext3 option.
 
I never putted a disc to install my HD...

Are you talking about the Linux CD? If so I said earlier that I can't get to installation because of the error I stated before.

I tried another version of Linux a long time ago, and it worked on the Live Distro...
 
well if your not actually using any of the partitions yet then it doesnt seem likely that its a formatting problem...

really sounds like a corrupt download or something... you reburnt it right?
did you redownload it?

i know you probably wont want to but anyway haha.

can you try to use livecd on another computer?
that will show us where the problem lies
 
I use one of the two partition of this HD.

Is that the problem? If not, I'll re-download it either thursday night or on Friday, my exams are until Thursday :P
 
to my understanding, with livecd the image loads onto your ram...
maybe im wrong, but if im right then a dodgily formatted partition shouldnt matter...
 
Kesava said:
to my understanding, with livecd the image loads onto your ram...
maybe im wrong, but if im right then a dodgily formatted partition shouldnt matter...
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Exactly...

Now what the problem could be?

I paused the download twice to watch youtube videos, could that be the problem?

I'm re-downloading right now :)
 
well is it a torrent? thats the easiest way to do it...

its quite possible that the download site didnt support pausing and so it corrupted it
 
Can you toss a HD in there you can just wipe out completely and start from scratch? It sounds to me like corruption of hardware failure.
 
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