New installation blues...

Hi All,
Been looking at EMC for a while and decided to load it up on a spare computer to get familiar with it. This is my 4th attempt to load Linux and my results are all the same........
This last attempt was with the LiveCD. First 3 were with RedHat, Ubuntu, and ?? My screen is black, no cursor, no movement, no nothing. The machine was a W XP system.

Tried the F1 - F6 on what I would guess is a reboot and nothing. On other posts w/black screen, they at least get something. 0 for 4 and discouraged again.

Now what?

H

WAGs follow:

What type of monitor do you have I think this can happen sometimes with old pre DDC VGA monitors

Another possibility is that your computer has a hardware fault of some kind: so you might want to run memtest86

did you verify the CD checksum?

Monitor is 2yr old Proview flatscreen.
Computer was running fine under W xp
No idea about checksum on cd
Thanks,
H

Burned another cd and tried it. Machine won't load linux/emc and won't reboot under windows.
4th time I've ended up with a dead computer trying to load linux. I would like to believe here people but linux aint' showin me no love....

Can you boot from the live CD to try linux without installing it?
Have you tried both the 8.04 and the 10.04 CD?

Rick G

I read through the instruction page and thought I could preview it using the cd. I did not load it with the windows version.
No I have not tried another version.
I pulled the live cd and got the computer back up in safe mode. So from what I have re-read in the instructions is I need linux loaded before I can use the live cd.
Does that mean I have to burn with windows per instructions and then try it?
The machine I want to use is one from a repair guy that has lost the windows log on password so that's as far as it starts up.

Do this? " Before burning a CD, it is highly recommended that you verify the md5 sum (hash) of the .iso file.

Windows does not come with a md5sum program. You will have to download and install one to check the md5sum. More information can be found at:

help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Burning the ISO to a CD

1.Download and install Infra Recorder, a free and open source image burning program.
2.Insert a blank CD in the drive and select Do nothing or Cancel if an auto-run dialog pops up.
3.Open Infra Recorder, and select the 'Actions' menu, then 'Burn image'."

Thanks,
H

Downloaded the md5sum and ran it. I can't find an exact matching hash to compare it to in the ubuntuhash it has pointed me to. My file starts with 5283b and nothing I see comes close.

Where is the hash located to do the MD5sum comparison on the LiveCD?