Trouble in Linux installation

[mitchelliscious]

Alright got windows installed got the boot disk for ubuntu set up but everytime on the start up it goes in to dpms protected mode services and say options are:
/MLX
/BL=16
/Lend= on
/Delay= off
is windows not letting me install linux or what is the problem, also when i type anyone of those commands it says error and will not let me install any of them, kinda already read other posts and nothing really seems to address this problem, any suggestions or if your know how to get it installed please help thanks

[mitchelliscious]

does anyone know how to help me?????

[saikee]

Beats me. I loaded Ubuntu 5.0.4 twice on two separate drives in the last two weeks and didn't have any problem. Just did it again with the installation CD to see if I can see a choice that could replicate your problem but everything seemed faultless (didn't install this time).

I have installed an earlier Ubuntu version in another PC and it went smoothly.

You have to expand your description a bit more.

Have you got empty space in the hard drive to receive Ubuntu?

Is the error from Ubuntu or from Windows?

Windows do not allow another system stick into its arxe. Ubuntu has to be installed as a separate system on a different partition and its installation got nothing to do with Windows.

It is customary for a GNU/Linux to include in its boot menu any bootable system found in your box, sometime to the point that you have to point a gun to its head to tell it not to dual boot.

Ubuntu once installed will offer you to boot itself or Windows. Each one runs independent of each other but in GNU/Linux you can see the Windows partitions but not the other way round.

[mitchelliscious]

there is errors from windows. i have tried it with ubuntu and debian whenever i put a boot disc in it goes into that dps-dos mode thing and that menu comes up.. I have plenty of space left on my C: drive, and don't have a partition set up but someone told me i can set it up while setting up ubuntu, but i can't eve n get that running off the disc?

[saikee]

I am aware a small number of distros will do resizing for you but I am not keen on this idea myself at the installation time, as life is complicated eough without it. I would use Partition Magic, a Windows programme to get back the space first and then do the necessary partitioning too with it too.

You do need to know a little bit of what you have got inside the hard drive to play around with a GNU/Linux. It is a necessary step for any user. Windows has been spoiling you by feeding food on a plate and you don't have to know where it comes from.

The top of Installation Forum has couple of threads for users new to installation. It tells you all the things you need before starting.

[saikee]

I provide a little bit more info as follow:

Newer NT versions of Windows have unmovable sysem data inside the partition, check the hardware change and the partition table too. This means if its partition isn't properly resized the Windows will know its system data has been violated and protects itself to become unbootable. A new activation may be needed with MS.

Resizing a NT version of Windows while installing a GNU/Linux for the first time is not a smart move. Any problem developed in the installation can render both systems inaccessible.

Thus the safe approach is to have the Windows resized and working properly first. I suggest a 5Gb partition for Ubuntu and 1Gb partition for swap, both of which need not be formatted as it is the duty of a GNU/Linux to format them. Extra disk space can be left unallocated and no system would mind it. It is unfortunate that Windows always grab the whole disk when being installed.

If you have only one partition for the Windows and only one disk then the Windows partition will be called hda1 in GNU/Linux. The 5Gb and 1Gb partitions, if created as primary partitions, will then be called hda2 and hda3 respectively. If you create them as logical partitions they will be called hda5 and hda6, as all logical partitions start at 5th position in GNU/Linux. Either partition type works fine. Just point Ubuntu to these two partitions during installation and the system should be available after 45 minutes. All my GNU/Linux including Ubuntos are housed in 5Gb partitions. You only need it bigger if you put your own data inside.

Most GNU/Linux installation CDs can be triggered by pressing the Enter key if you do not wait for it to fire up automatically. I assume you have a bootable iso image to start with. Installation of a GNU/Linux should always started booting the machine to the CD and never involves Windows.

Windows does not support GNU/Linux and does not recognise or read its partitions. So you are flogging a dead horse to install GNU/Linux inside Windows. GNU/Linux reads all Windows partitions and with the exception of NTFS writes on all of them too.