[dylug] Re: Linux being a nightmare

CANT U JUST FORGET LINUX!!!!!
and get back to windows usage sometimes
guess thts the stablest!!!!


--- In [email protected], varun malik <varunone@y...> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>  
> No techie posts for a long time !!! Why ??? don't tell me everyone 
has already gone brain dead !!!
>  
> Well i have a mystery of some to solve.
>  
> I am having a terrible time with linux.
>  
> I have a computer with intel centrino processor 1.7GHZ 256 MB Ram.
> I have tried installing 4 different distributions of linux
>  
> 1... Debian
> 2... Ubuntu
> 3... Fedora 3
> 4... Mandrake 10.1
>  
> Now the installation goes on perfect with no complications. But as 
soon as the system boots my problem start.
>  
> Firstly i was not able to get ahead of the "press I for 
interactive startup" line. In all 4 editions the screen freezes at 
the same point.
>  
> Secondly i boot with parameter nofloppy (i have no floppy drive) 
noscsi and nofirewire (i do have a firewire port). Now the system 
boots fine but in KDE as well as gnome, during peripheral 
configuration the screen freezes and no luck beyond this point.
>  
> Thirdly i started the system (with boot parameters) without 
graphic mode.
>  
> At this point i am able to login to the shell but after 1-2mins 
the system freezes again irrespective of whether i am executing a 
command or not. (once the system freeze, what ever keys i press 
don't even show on screen)
>  
> I am having exactly the same problem in all versions.
>  
> The only thing i was able to use was Ubuntu live cd. Though it did 
not boot under normal mode but the system loaded fine with expert 
mode parameters. The system runs perfectly fine, but the problem is 
i am a lill scared of spoiling the disc drive !
>  
> So what do i do ... very peculiar but the fact remains all the 
versions have the same problem !
>  
> Any suggestions ...???
>  
> I'll be giving FreeBSD a shot tomorrow morning, lets see how that 
turns out !
>  
> Sometimes i feel linux is not made for me !!!! ... Please suggest 
something fast else i'll have to move away from "open source" and 
support "piracy" ... original is toooo expensive !!!
>  
> !!!! HELP !!!!
>  
> Warm Regards
> Varun.
>  
> PS : Please hold back on the sarcastic comments and try to resolve 
the issue.
> 
> 
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