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Surely there are linux forums out there where this question would be more likely to get you what you're looking for.
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That involves registration, getting to know new people, giving out personal information such as location and email and edging into a entirely new community etc all steps that I don't think I am ready for yet. I know our relationship has been strained but I think we can work through it without going that far.
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The number is timing info printed by the kernel on all printk messages. They can be turned off in the kernel configuration.
I assume that you are booting directly from the CD and not actually using your floppy drive, because most modern distros don't support booting from a floppy. The kernel is probably probing the floppy drive to check to see if it is there. I would guess that it either isn't, or it may be mis-configured in the BIOS settings. However, unless you actually want to use the floppy drive, you can probably ignore this message.
The garbled screen most likely shows up because the X server switches video modes before putting anything meaningful in the framebuffer. I highly doubt that your pressing the escape key has anything to do with the screen clearing and showing the desktop; that should happen without intervention within a few seconds.
This doesn't happen on Fedora because, as I recall, Fedora uses a graphical boot program that hides the kernel console output and initializes the graphics card long before it is ready for you to log in. Either way is fine, and the brief garbled screen at boot-up is not a symptom of any serious problem.
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formatting of the hard disk froze so i restarted the computer now it thinks linux is installed but will not let me log in with my user account, and the default account logs in but i get an error message about how i was only logged in for 10 seconds then the system reloads Ubuntu so i cant reformat.
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hurray for xp cds with an inbuilt formating tool.
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[Errno 5] Input/output error
Greaaaaat.
Okay the cd I am certain is fine, and the hd is new, could the problem be the cd-rom drive?
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Is there any part of this computer that you're sure actually WORKS?
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I've finally managed to install Ubuntu but now no program I try to start up works, when I was installing it at 83 or 85% it gave back the I/O error but managed to still complete the install rather then cancel it.
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Yay I found a Linux Irc channel!!
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Congratulations! You've found an IRC channel about the second most popular IRC topic ever! (The most popular topic being anything related to sex.)
I had similar inconsistent issues with a recent Ubuntu install, Blayne, and it turned out that I needed to burn my Ubuntu disc image at a slower speed to ensure an error-free copy. Have you checked the integrity of your CD with the CD check option given when you first boot off the disc?
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Ubuntu does a disk check on itself automatically, doesn't it? or was that OpenSUse I was messing with....? I don't quite remember. I installed about 6 different distros within a 2 day period, so they're all kinda mashed together.
either way, Once I finally build a tower I'm for sure doing a(n)(K)Ubuntu partition.
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always exactly 1 file wrong. burner slower didnt help with the cd's, trying dvds now as im out of clean cd's.
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Blayne, if nothing works, try Ubuntu alternate cd installer. It sure helped me installing Ubuntu in "troublesome software" before.
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