I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this
Alright, I am a long time Microsoft user (games of course). I have installed Linux in the past, but not on this computer. Brand new computer, have been using it extensively for the past month or so, and recently I just had the urge to install linux on it and play around with it a little more (educational purposes mainly)
I have a retail CD I bought years ago of Linux SUSE 10.1
When I try to install it, it boots from the CD and then goes to the installation menu. I select 'install' (logical choice ) It sits there a minute, then tells me there is no CDROM drive attached to the computer
Ok, confused, I mean there is obviously a CDROM drive (I booted from it in the first place) IIRC when I selected 'view installed CDROM drives/hard drives' it came up empty.
Yet it does the exact same thing. No CDROM drive attached
Any idea what could possibly be the issue? Obviously it works fine in Vista and BIOS recognizes it just fine. I looked through the BIOS settings just to make sure nothing popped out at me, which nothing looked promising
Also, check to see if it's a SCSI, SATA or an EIDE drive. It's probably SATA, which I don't know anything about. If it's SCSI, I can see why there would be problems. If it's EIDE, yeah something's strange.
try downloading a new dvd of the linux distro.
i dotn keep tabs on suse numbering, but i think that version is kinda old.
and old linux might have issues fixed in new linux versions
specially with compatibility with new devices (like your dvd drive)
It is a SATA DVD drive (surprised me), and since it didn't seem to see my Hard Drive either (also SATA) that is likely the problem
I suspected it could be my build was outdated, which is why I tried downloading and installing Debians version of linux too (you have to pay for SUSE) but it had the same problem
Are there any other disturbutions out there that you recommend I try? (just looking for a simple version of linux, and I'm a sucker for shiny guis :o I mainly want to test out WINE and see how well it works) Or any other ideas or things I may have done wrong?
Well downloading and installing the latest version of Ubuntu worked, but I am having other issues...
The first one is that it doesn't recognize my wireless card. No idea how to fix this. Going to Intel's site (with Windows booted) they only have drivers for XP/Vista... and I honestly do not know how drivers work in Linux.
That is the website I went to looking for my wireless card drivers
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated
The second is I cant figure out how to install programs (surprise). I tried installing WINE and Compiz (the two programs I wanted to play with and the main reason I wanted to try Linux in the first place)The readme files said to execute the 'configure' command through the terminal, which I did manage to get to work on both of them, except at the end it just says 'failed to compile executable' and nothing else happened. I cant seem to see any steps I am doing wrong... but of course I am probably missing something
If anyone has any suggestions they would be welcomed (I'll be googling until then)
) It sits there a minute, then tells me there is no CDROM drive attached to the computer 
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