Ok all you linux guru's. I sure hope you guys are still watching this thread.
Here is my problem. I know, I know i have many problems....hehehe I will try to make this as short as possible. I went to linux web site and downloaded Ubuntu to a jump drive to try as per there instructions.
It didn't work. Seems something was missing or got corrupted. It took about 4.5 gigs of my monthly 5 gig alotment. grrrrrrr. So I ordered from them "Xubuntu 15.10" on a 32 gig Kingston jump drive. You are supposed to be able to plug it in and then choose "try it" or install it along with a few other selections including a help file. Well, this one does not work either ?
It goes through the boot up process to the screen that gives me the options to select "try or install" so I choose try, it starts to log on all the way through the blue Ubuntu log on screen and then goes to a black screen with a white box in the upper left corner with a bunch of DOS like commands or something. I can type in commands but nothing works. Even 'help' which they say takes me to the help page but nothing works. this is what it says in the white box......
[ 17.092416] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No caching page mode found
[ 17.092580] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
BusyBox V 1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
Ok, thats what is in the white box and no matter what I type in after the (initramfs)
nothing works.
You are not supposed to have to do any of this. Just plug it in and choose "Try Ubuntu" I can't seem to find anything on the Ubuntu site to help me. I am trying to do this on an older Asus EEE PC netbook. About 6 or 7 years old. Windows 7 starter version, Intel Atom CPU N450 @ 1.66ghz, !.67GHz, 1 GB ram, 32 bit operating system.
There is nothing wrong with the computer, just slow. I know very little about Linux or typing in DOS like commands. I have even disabled Asus quick boot and this did nothing as well. I sure hope someone can help me or I just spent 30 bucks for a jump drive.. Thanks in advance.
PS, I just read on the Linux forum that my processor needs to support PAE, whatever that is ?
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow 497M 63M 434M 13% /
udev 489M 4.0K 489M 1% /dev
tmpfs 199M 800K 198M 1% /run
/dev/sdb1 15G 705M 15G 5% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 677M 677M 0 100% /rofs
tmpfs 497M 16K 496M 1% /tmp
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 497M 88K 496M 1% /run/shm
Lubuntu 12.04 32-bit
orXubuntu 12.04 32-bit
; both of these use a non-PAE kernel by default. Can you burn Xubuntu or Lubuntu 12.04 to a Disk, or make a bootable usb drive