Nikhil Dev

I always wanted to start working on Linux hearing to the image build up that people have put up. So one fine day about 4 months back, I downloaded the image, burnt it onto a CD and took it home to install that on my computer. The flavour that I downloaded was Ubuntu 5.10. I made some extra space on my newly bought SATA hard drive and the initial stages went pretty good. The problem arose when after the installation I rebooted and I got this message called “Failed to start X system(your Graphical User Interface)”. I tried Red Hat linux as well that I had obtained from one of my friend and even that installed gave me the same problem. I was absolutely new to Linux and did not know any head or tail of it. I did not know any shell commands. I just wanted to start using it expecting that it would not pose any problem, but then I hit this wall.

So this is what I am doing today. I downloaded the copy of Microsoft Virtual PC that Microsoft has made free now and and I am trying to use the Live CD provided by Ubuntu on that. If this works, then I believe that virtual pc is providing Ubuntu with the generic video drives and that should be a problem. I am not yet done with the booting. If this works, the the workaround for people who are on Windows with AMD machines on MSI boards can now take advantage of Linux this way.

Right now I am still wwaiting for the damn Live CD to boot my virtual machine fully and passing time by blogging. Will record the results later.