Me or my computer or both

Me or my computer or both

[jaffar]

Hi guys.  Over the past year, I have been trying to install all flavors of linux, from fedora to debiant, gentoo to grml, slackware to ubantu, all without any modicum of success.  I am running a panthium i368 build machine with a windows xp box installed.  I have a 2.4 gb processor, with 1.8 gb of ram and an external dectalk synth.  Typing the various installation commands for the fvarious flavors of linux will either yield some nonsense from my dectalk synth when speakup tries to interact with it, or, for the majority of the linux flavors, typing in the appropriate commands during the boot prompt yields nothing at all, not even a twitter from my dectalk synth.  Mind you, this failure certainly does not arise from a lack of help and assistance from list members, but try as i might with all the advise and hints given by really helpful list members, nothing seems to work.  I have updated the firmware on my dectalk synth, and i have thoroughly read all installation instructions for all the various installation procedure which accrues with the different linux flavors, but i've had 0 success so far.  So what have i got to do next, that's my biggest question.  I am very interested to venture into linux, but success with it seems to have eluded me.  If there is anyone of you here running both windows xp and linux on the same machine, I'd certainly be interested to hear from you.  All help given to a desperate guy here would be greatly appreciated.  Cheers!

Re: Me or my computer or both

[Gregory Nowak]

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There are folks here that dual boot between windows and gnu/linux,
myself included. Are you sure that your serial port is enabled in
cmos? Have you checked for, and installed any updates available for
your system's bios? Finally, do you have access to another pc? If so,
then have you tried booting any of the install cds you used on the
second machine?

Given that you say you've tried a number of install cds with the same
results, it most likely isn't your fault. Your dectalk and pc don't
seem to like each other for whatever reason, but I'm at a loss to say
what that reason might be.

Greg


On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:08:33AM +0800, jaffar@jeffstudio.net wrote:
> Hi guys.  Over the past year, I have been trying to install all flavors of linux, from fedora to debiant, gentoo to grml, slackware to ubantu, all without any modicum of success.  I am running a panthium i368 build machine with a windows xp box installed.  I have a 2.4 gb processor, with 1.8 gb of ram and an external dectalk synth.  Typing the various installation commands for the fvarious flavors of linux will either yield some nonsense from my dectalk synth when speakup tries to interact with it, or, for the majority of the linux flavors, typing in the appropriate commands during the boot prompt yields nothing at all, not even a twitter from my dectalk synth.  Mind you, this failure certainly does not arise from a lack of help and assistance from list members, but try as i might with all the advise and hints given by really helpful list members, nothing seems to work.  I have updated the firmware on my dectalk synth, and i have thoroughly read all installation instructions for all the various installation procedure which accrues with the different linux flavors, but i've had 0 success so far.  So what have i got to do next, that's my biggest question.  I am very interested to venture into linux, but success with it seems to have eluded me.  If there is anyone of you here running both windows xp and linux on the same machine, I'd certainly be interested to hear from you.  All help given to a desperate guy here would be greatly appreciated.  Cheers!
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