I'm not a PC n00b but this one has me stumped.
I've got an older machine running WINDOWS 2000 that I want to use to play with LINUX on it. My goal is to set up the LINUX machine as a spare computer for the kids to surf the net (ie. pbskids.org, youtube.com) & for facebook games (ie. flash based).
I've played with KNOPPIX before and it has saved my bacon recovering files on my other main PCs but figured I give Ubuntu a try.
So I went to the Homepage | Ubuntu website and download the .iso file and burned a CD. The CD is suppose to run either in WINDOWS or be bootable. In windows the ubuntu application starts up and ask if I want to install ubuntu. I tell it yes it says it will restart my system and then it just hangs.
So I shut down, restart the machine go into the BIOS and tell it to boot from CD-ROM first. Start up again, the screen flashes that ubuntu is loading and then a blank screem with the blinking cursors (keyboard wo't type anything).
Try the Knoppix CD and it does work. So what gives? I've build bootable disc before? I re-downloaded the .iso thinking it was a corrupt download and re-burned the CD with a DIFFERENT burn porgram (first one was with NERO, second with infrarecord) and the same results.
Any help please?
I've got an older machine running WINDOWS 2000 that I want to use to play with LINUX on it. My goal is to set up the LINUX machine as a spare computer for the kids to surf the net (ie. pbskids.org, youtube.com) & for facebook games (ie. flash based).
I've played with KNOPPIX before and it has saved my bacon recovering files on my other main PCs but figured I give Ubuntu a try.
So I went to the Homepage | Ubuntu website and download the .iso file and burned a CD. The CD is suppose to run either in WINDOWS or be bootable. In windows the ubuntu application starts up and ask if I want to install ubuntu. I tell it yes it says it will restart my system and then it just hangs.
So I shut down, restart the machine go into the BIOS and tell it to boot from CD-ROM first. Start up again, the screen flashes that ubuntu is loading and then a blank screem with the blinking cursors (keyboard wo't type anything).
Try the Knoppix CD and it does work. So what gives? I've build bootable disc before? I re-downloaded the .iso thinking it was a corrupt download and re-burned the CD with a DIFFERENT burn porgram (first one was with NERO, second with infrarecord) and the same results.
Any help please?