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September 25th, 2010 07:00
Boot Ubuntu/backtrack 4 from live cd
Hey, yall helped me immensely before, and I know, the only time I come here is for help...but here goes. The Backtrack 4 is a linux/ubuntu/debian distro...I believe. I have downloaded the distro and (at slowest speed possible) burned my "Live" disk, a dvd. I have an inspiron 7000 120 G HDD, 128 RAM, mostly standard stuff except the HDD. Tested the disk, and it booted fine for my desktop, and the inspiron boots okay from the windows install disks, 98, and xp. Will also boot from floppy into DOS. But I can't get it to boot from the backtrack dvd. I have a note in the BT forums, and in the linux forums, as I read that sometimes they have problems with the video grivers on certain cards, but I'm getting no answers. Help, I need this and I have tried unetbootin, with no results, and this machine has no USB boot capabilities...HELP! What can I do????
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September 25th, 2010 07:00
I'm not sure what you mean that it can't boot. It either does or it doesn't. If it boots and has problems with the video drivers, then that's another thing.
I know I had problems on my Latitude 110L with Ubuntu 10.04 with the video. It went completely dark early on in the install process. I had no problems with the Latitude D400.
You might want to use some other method to determine the video chipset on your Inspiron 7000.
One thing I will say is that you may not have enough RAM for Ubuntu. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements