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BSOD in windows XP - installing UBUNTU

  • 13-01-2011 8:39am
    #1
    snapplejacks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭


    hi,
    i've taken a desktop from my bro-in-law who's machine is on its last legs. he got the blue screen of death with a registry-error on windows xp and there is no original cd. tried everything and evnetually got around to trying a mount via ubuntu 10.10 trial edition.

    I'm now trying to see if i can just forget about windows use now and install a unix o.s. However i've now tried with two different live cd's (downloaded at low speed on to cd) and i keep getting errors on the install.

    Is it necessary to be connected to internet during this install ?
    or if anyone can suggest a linux o.s that oesnt need internet connection during install ?


Comments

  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I've happily installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a netbook without an internet connection during installation. IIRC it tries to find one, and offers to use one or set it up, but I could just say "no" and carry on. I suggest you try again, and be careful about which options you select when asked.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    And if you miss the BSOD, there's an app for that


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