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matthew9170
Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:42:55 pm
Ok so today i finished downloading Zorin OS 5 (after many failed attempts). I then made put it onto a usb using unetbootin and when i tried running it the screen didnt show up, i tried putting acpi_osi=Linux, which worked to get Sabayon linux to work, but it didnt work this time ... The only ubuntu distro that this didnt happen to on my laptop was ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The specs on my laptop is
http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... tech-specs
cheetah
Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:19:03 pm
matthew9170
Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:40:50 pm
I haven't had Ubuntu installed for about 3 months, but 10.04 was the only one that worked with out the weird screen bug, I have a gentoo distro (Sabayon 7) currently. I already put Zorin OS core 5 onto a flash drive.
matthew9170
Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:45:22 pm
Is there an easy why to download it like via a torrent, i have really spotty internet connection so downloading it directly isnt the best.
matthew9170
Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:11:40 pm
Yea i will try that, thanks... Torrents need other people to have the complete file and for them to be "seeding" the file for it to be faster, but its like you download 1 piece of that file from one person then another from another person until the file is completely downloaded. But you really should get a torrent for the downloads
matthew9170
Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:52:45 am
Then propose the idea...lol you have the POWER good sir
matthew9170
Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:24:06 pm
I downloaded Zorin 3.1 but my wireless card doesnt work... I know i need to download a drive but I cant do that without the internet, I can't plug my laptop into ethernet because my school doesnt let me do that so, is there a way to download the drive in windows and install it in linux
matthew9170
Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:04:05 pm
It came preinstalled in my windows but I cant find the folder or the name that i need for it
matthew9170
Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:31:56 pm
I think I found it...time to try that
EDIT:
Yea it tells me that it is not a drive.... What do I do?
matthew9170
Sat Nov 12, 2011 5:47:39 pm
Yea i found the .inf file but when i try puting it in the wireless drive thing it says invalid drive
matthew9170
Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:15:13 am
I tried going into windows and downloading the wireless drives from here
http://www.laptop-software.com/acer-sof ... 7-drivers/ but when i put them into the zorin os system via the install windows drives it shows up in there as a valid drive that is also installed but i still can't connect to the internet it doesn't show any wireless networks. I even tried moving closer to a router / hotspot in my dorm and still nothing
matthew9170
Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:00:09 pm
That doesn't work doing "sudo ifconfig eth1" says that the device doesn't exist same thing with doing "sudo ifconfig wlan0"
matthew9170
Sun Nov 13, 2011 7:56:22 pm
I did but all it showed was eth0 and lo (i think thats it)
matthew9170
Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:09:59 am
matthew9170
Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:40:40 am
But the problem is that I can't connect to the Ethernet. When I was at home over the summer and I needed to make a live USB of Ubuntu 10.04 all it did was give me a message saying that there was a drive I needed to download, and then I plugged my laptop into the Ethernet and it downloaded the drive... But I can't do that here, it doesn't even give me the drive error message like it did for Ubuntu
Wolfman
Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:16:39 pm
Did you try the internet from the live CD, if so; did it work??.
Regards Wolfman:)
matthew9170
Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:20:36 pm
When I was using ubuntu I tried getting it from the live cd and I also tried getting it from it installed but it didn't work until I downloaded the drive via Ethernet. Same-thing with Zorin
matthew9170
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:30:06 pm
Ok, thanks for your help.