What i did: printed the material, and when i had time, i went outside, and read the whole thing.
Read it when you’re not in front of the PC. Staring at the screen too long to read a text can get boring and tiresome. When it’s something like this (ie, i won’t get payed ;D), it’s worst. So printing and reading it normally helped a lot.
Hey everybody,
and a big thank you for all your wonderful suggestions. Unfortunately, Windows seemed to have something against my installing another OS, which seems to be more than a competition. As I’m currently a bit short for time I simply don’t get round to getting a deeper inside into kubuntu and ended up stressed out and frustrated (which is not Kubuntu’s fault). However, I uninstalled kubuntu (for the moment) because I need my scanner and printer and internet etc. to run properly for my job. However, as soon as I find the time, I’ll give Kubuntu (or any other Linux distro) another shot.
Thank you all again for the time spent to help me out,
grampa (:HUG)
P.S. LeoniAquila, I understand you so well. Me too, I feel most secure when I know my system is protected by Comodo - even it the OS is Windows.
(R)
Looks like i got carried away too much, sorry Grampa!
What exactly went wrong? Network problems in windows after kubuntu installed?? Or Windows didn’t boot properly?
I’m at a loss trying to understand how that can happen. If you installed in a separate partition, and installed Grub, it should have no problems. But if you installed Grub, can you tell me how did you uninstall Kubuntu?
(i’m curious, most likely i won’t know what’s the problem, but i’m curious).
:■■■■
“Uninstalled” is not the right word. I have a recovery-cd which didn’t work after I installed Kubuntu. I always had to use opensuse, install it and at the same time delete the windows partition, thus, installing opensuse to the whole HD (sounds strange but it was the only way I could reinstall Windows; didn’t work with Kubuntu… beats me!) Then my recovery-cd was working again. As this took the whole day (and I installed Kubuntu twice and thus had to repeat the prcedure twice) I’m not willing at the moment to try it again (as I said short for time).
I hope I can find some time soon to give Kubuntu another try.
Thanks for all your help,
grampa. :■■■■
Why not simply go to the Windows Recovery Console and use the fixmbr command to stop booting from the GRUB interface, this way you can remove Kubuntu without system boot up issues.
Justin
That was what i was thinking, but he mentioned recovery cd. If it’s like mine (toshiba laptop), he can’t access the recovery console (if he can, tell me too as i’d like to know 
).
System Rescue CD is a valid choice for this situation, where you can boot from cd FreeDos i think, and do that fixmbr command (i think; never tried it). Not the easiest solution though :-\ but there could be other live CD’s (maybe Knoppix can do this?? don’t know)
Then again, why wasn’t he able to boot the CD? That should be available before Grub right? (BIOS settings?)
Grampa, either way, i suggest reading this tutorial on installing Kubuntu. It’s easy to read, made specially for the newcomers, by an experienced GNU/Linux user (member of the Wilders forums, Mrkvonic) . Installing (K)ubuntu Linux - Full tutorial
It may seem big, but that’s because he’s thorough in explaining, ie he doesn’t skip steps assuming the reader already knows.
If you don’t understand something, or something could be better, tell me and i’ll tell him
Contact your PC manufacturer, my Compaq which has a recovery partition and a set of recovery DVD’s has the Recovery Console which you can access while pressing F8 before booting (you get the recovery console and safe mode option…)
My Sony Vaio which has a recovery partition and recovery DVD’s as well doesn’t feature the recovery console, but there is a way to add it by typing something in the Run dialog box, and it will install the recovery console.
So the best way is to contact your PC manufacturer.
I messed up my boot-up when deleting Ubuntu; had to use a Windows XP install CD to restore the “boot-thing” (don’t know the proper word), by typing fixmbr. For a while I couldn’t start Ubuntu (of course, since it was removed), nor Win XP because of the messed up boot. So to get online to find info (learning fixmbr) I used the Ubuntu Live CD.
/LA
PS. I’ve never understood how to use the boot-word, neither in English, nor in my native language which use the same word. I also don’t know how to use neither/nor, was it correct in the previous sentence?
It is known as the Master Boot Record, which is the file your PC uses to get information on how to startup (or boot) your installed OS, in a dual booting system GRUB is written to the MBR so you boot to grub and then choose which OS you would like to install.
When you delete the OS that installed GRUB, the GRUB files are removed and the MBR will not be able to locate the GRUB files which is why you will get the error, “Operating System not Found” or something along those lines…
Ah, that clear things out a bit. So the MBR is actually a file, which is the first thing the computer loads - after BIOS. The scenario you described was exactly what happened. I though I could fix the MBR by reinstalling Windows with my recovery-CDs, but not! Repairing (fixmbr) with an XP CD was the right cure, (which meant that I reformatted in vain).
/LA
Yes reformatting will re-write the original MBR for Windows, so it should fix it, why it didn’t I do not know, because whenever you install a new OS it always modifies the MBR so that OS can be booted. So it is possible something went wrong while you were re-installing Windows.
Justin
I’m not sure it really went wrong; that’s just how the OEM recovery solution works, I think. Have you come across this when using recovery discs on your Compaq or Sony, or do you usually reinstall Windows from scratch with a Windows XP setup CD?
LA
(sorry, the mbr discussion is a little off topic as this is a Linux distro thread - but at least to some extent related to the configuration of Windows and Linux together… ;))
System Rescue CD, or Grub cd itself (i think there is one…), allows you to reinstall Grub. It will check the OS’s installed and allow you to boot them.
System rescue cd even has GParted, QTparted, Partimage and lots more tools. On my computer it doesn’t load the proper driver for the graphics, but there’s a command to force vesa generic driver (who cares about looks in a rescue cd anyway ), or simply use the command line and not the GUI.
In short, fixmbr brings XP’s bootloader, but you can also reinstall Grub to fix the error.
Yes both with my Compaq and Vaio PC’s whenever I do a system recovery, the MBR is returned to the original factory state which is to boot Windows and only Windows, I don’t really understand what happened, but at least you were able to fix the MBR issue
Thanks for your replies, I absorb the information like a sponge.
LA
For all you guys who wanna test linux but are afraid of all the partitioning and ext2/ext3 stuff there’s
WUBI
It’s Ubuntu and it can be installed using windows. Now couple of things.
It’s not an emulator or vmware kinda stuff. It just installs Ubuntu on windows partitions.
Latest release needs at least 4 Gig of space and the greatest thing is if you want to uninstall Ubuntu just go to program files (XP) and Uninstall.
Again it doesn’t run on Windows… It just uses windows to install
regards,
Dam
Thanks for the info, I just made a post about Wubi in my blog.
Dam, that’s good info to know. I’d probably give it a shot except that they say you’ve got to have a 1GHz processor. So sad; I have nothing that modern (of my own).
Still, that’s good info; thanks for that! (:CLP)
LM
No problems LM! It’s good to see people joining the world of open source.
There are similar kind of projects but I haven’t tried any other. (Topologilinux, Instlux, Win32-loader)
regards
Dam
An OS that needs 1 GHz!? :o No thanks. 