<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>Well it has been an interesting weekend! The weather has been bad so I stayed in and played with Linux. As matter of fact we are having a howling gale today, I fear the worst for that ship that's stuck on the beach.
<br> It is nowhere near here but if those containers break open the stuff inside will end up all along the coast for weeks to come. Stuff that has been in seawater is rarely much good it's terribly harmful stuff so it will basically be junk.
<br><br> Anyway I have found out a lot. Firstly why Ubuntu can't load on my box. This is because of the motherboard. It's an Asrock K7NF2 and it assumes that people will only want to load Windows. So the drivers are on a CD that runs in Windows and contains such vitale things as the IDE Controller, the AGP drivers, the DMA drivers.... you get the idea. So obviously the IDE bus was running slowly on basic defaults ( I did wonder why) and the Installer was unable to detect the network card or the DMA. That caused a knock on effect and a refusal to load the program.
<br><br> So I have now formatted the drive and put Widders back on in a separate partition and then dual booted Debian from the goodbye-microsoft site. That self installed brilliantly all the drivers, network, the whole shebang downloaded across the ADSL connection. Very good.
<br><br>I am surprised that the motherboard is so oriented towards Windows, obviously it's necessary to be a bit selective when choosing a machine for Linux.<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andy