Sorry to hear of your painful experience. I wanted to offer that I Have had great luck with the live-creator on usb thumb drives.
i can do a complete basic install w/o internet connection, but to get up to date, you need a live access to the internet... I think there is a way to create the thumb drive from windows. the best part is, you can boot from the thumb drive for a test drive of linux w/o clobbering your current M$ install (although IMHO, nuking M$ is always the best policy! :) see fedora's home page for more... good luck, jackc... On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Mike Flannigan <mikef...@att.net> wrote: > > FYI, my 3rd attempt to go to Linux failed. Ubuntu > didn't get anywhere - the startup install screen > would not show, just a blank screen. Tried 32 bit > and 64 bit - same failure. > > Fedora 17 64 bit installed just fine. After updates I > got the "GPU-lockup - switching to software fbcon" problem. > I think I fixed that in an OS reinstallation with a lot of > work involving installing nvidia drivers. > > The main problem was no local home network connection > (unable to mount location). I had internet connection > (unlike the previous time I tried to move to Linux), but > no home network. I spent a lot of time trying to figure > it out, but no luck. Maybe next time. > > All this was on a brand new machine. > > I'm back to Windows 7 for now. At least it works (sort of). > It sure was painful giving MS $100. > > > Mike Flannigan > http://www.mflan.com/index.htm > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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