09-29-2014, 06:43 AM
I know this is a long post, but I've tried several times to burn the ISO nfilename: linux-lite-2.0-32bit to an old HP Omnibook Laptop via the CD. I'm either not burning it as an image correctly or making some other error, but this is really getting frustrating!
I'm not a novice with computers but I am with Linux. My old Windows XP system has treated me well, but now that damned Bill Gates is forcing a hardware and software upgrade to my computer by having his little "end of life" coming up on OCT !4, 2014. I've been trying to get it on the old laptop for a couple of weeks now with no success.
Once I know how to do it by installing it to the old laptop I'll stick a copy of LINUX on my big nice desktop computer that I built from the ground up myself.
Could somebody please open a dialouge with me to help me resolve the issues I'm having in my first try(s) at installing Linux Lite to my laptop?
I've tried all of this:
burned the OS 4 different times to 4 different CDs, using different types of CDs (standard silver (HP) and blue colors (NOT Blue ray).
used the recommended Burnware Free (version 7.3: on it's compilation screen for DATA: it has an option to Burn a Boot Disc, Custom Disc. on it's compilation screen for DISK IMAGES it has: Burn Image, Make ISO, and Make Boot ISO.
I think I've tried just about all of them but it's so confusing to know which one is right, and so far no success. I'm sick of Windows and Microsoft now and do not want to have any of their money grubbing products on my computer! So I don't care about data destruction on the laptop. I DO care on the big nice computer though.
Originally I wanted to just blow off the whole hard drive and have nothing but Linux Lite but all I got no matter what was the ability to fdisk, setver, format and command prompt from the "Burn a Boot Disc under DATA category. I had no options, so I FDISK the HD into 3 partions, one for "Ghost Windows" only 25 GB in size (I'll likely just delete it later - see below for why I resorted to this.
I gave that up since I was having so many issues that I reinstalled a copy of Windows XP on a little tiny partion (I'm not going to be using it, just to try to get the CD ISO FILE) intending to use Windows Explorer to go to the CD and double-click the ISO, but I just get a message "Windows doesn't know how to open this file" then it suggest some website I'm not familiar with to open the file and I don't think it's going to help, probably try to decompile the LINUX LITE OS file!
I downloaded gparted-live-0.19.1-4-i486 thinking maybe the partioning issue was a problem, but now am hesitant to go to all the trouble to keep spinning my wheels with all this back and forth.
I have a lot of documentation reading to do to bring myself up to speed and get it installed and used to using it on the old Laptop so I can get it up on my good desktop, and would like to do so before the Bill Gates crowd decides to pull the plug on Oct 16. I wrote to their support asking what would happen, would it just die and stop working, or just be vulnerable, or no support fixes (I've always just fixed it myself anyway because they are too expensive and I know what to do about 99 per cent of the time - I'm a geek). Of course they send NO ANSWER and you know, I was starting to learn computers back when Windows 3.0 had just came out. I remember getting a lot of jobs adding memory to people's computers because everybody had to have more, and since then they've continued the trend and just gotten worse and worse and I'm FED UP with MICKEYRSOFT!
So please, please, work with me to determine what I'm doing wrong. Once I get to the start screen after the bootup, I'll probably be just fine, but it's getting to the INSTALL screen I just can't seem to find. PLEASE HELP. And don't just send a message that "it sounds like blah blah blah" without sending me a list of things to try, a RESOLUTION for it, OK?
Sorry about the rant but I'm just so frustrated and feel like I'm under the gun because I don't want to mess with Windows. I meant to make the switch years ago but the documentation was always so lengthy and I could never find the time to sit down and study it. Now I'm forced to.
Please: LET'S GET STARTED, OK? 8)
I'm not a novice with computers but I am with Linux. My old Windows XP system has treated me well, but now that damned Bill Gates is forcing a hardware and software upgrade to my computer by having his little "end of life" coming up on OCT !4, 2014. I've been trying to get it on the old laptop for a couple of weeks now with no success.
Once I know how to do it by installing it to the old laptop I'll stick a copy of LINUX on my big nice desktop computer that I built from the ground up myself.
Could somebody please open a dialouge with me to help me resolve the issues I'm having in my first try(s) at installing Linux Lite to my laptop?
I've tried all of this:
burned the OS 4 different times to 4 different CDs, using different types of CDs (standard silver (HP) and blue colors (NOT Blue ray).
used the recommended Burnware Free (version 7.3: on it's compilation screen for DATA: it has an option to Burn a Boot Disc, Custom Disc. on it's compilation screen for DISK IMAGES it has: Burn Image, Make ISO, and Make Boot ISO.
I think I've tried just about all of them but it's so confusing to know which one is right, and so far no success. I'm sick of Windows and Microsoft now and do not want to have any of their money grubbing products on my computer! So I don't care about data destruction on the laptop. I DO care on the big nice computer though.
Originally I wanted to just blow off the whole hard drive and have nothing but Linux Lite but all I got no matter what was the ability to fdisk, setver, format and command prompt from the "Burn a Boot Disc under DATA category. I had no options, so I FDISK the HD into 3 partions, one for "Ghost Windows" only 25 GB in size (I'll likely just delete it later - see below for why I resorted to this.
I gave that up since I was having so many issues that I reinstalled a copy of Windows XP on a little tiny partion (I'm not going to be using it, just to try to get the CD ISO FILE) intending to use Windows Explorer to go to the CD and double-click the ISO, but I just get a message "Windows doesn't know how to open this file" then it suggest some website I'm not familiar with to open the file and I don't think it's going to help, probably try to decompile the LINUX LITE OS file!
I downloaded gparted-live-0.19.1-4-i486 thinking maybe the partioning issue was a problem, but now am hesitant to go to all the trouble to keep spinning my wheels with all this back and forth.
I have a lot of documentation reading to do to bring myself up to speed and get it installed and used to using it on the old Laptop so I can get it up on my good desktop, and would like to do so before the Bill Gates crowd decides to pull the plug on Oct 16. I wrote to their support asking what would happen, would it just die and stop working, or just be vulnerable, or no support fixes (I've always just fixed it myself anyway because they are too expensive and I know what to do about 99 per cent of the time - I'm a geek). Of course they send NO ANSWER and you know, I was starting to learn computers back when Windows 3.0 had just came out. I remember getting a lot of jobs adding memory to people's computers because everybody had to have more, and since then they've continued the trend and just gotten worse and worse and I'm FED UP with MICKEYRSOFT!
So please, please, work with me to determine what I'm doing wrong. Once I get to the start screen after the bootup, I'll probably be just fine, but it's getting to the INSTALL screen I just can't seem to find. PLEASE HELP. And don't just send a message that "it sounds like blah blah blah" without sending me a list of things to try, a RESOLUTION for it, OK?
Sorry about the rant but I'm just so frustrated and feel like I'm under the gun because I don't want to mess with Windows. I meant to make the switch years ago but the documentation was always so lengthy and I could never find the time to sit down and study it. Now I'm forced to.
Please: LET'S GET STARTED, OK? 8)