Please help

[Andrew Mathenge]

Is this the "busybox - initramfs" prompt? Do you see those words
anywhere when you're dropped to the command line?

I've seen this before. Normally when your CD drive cannot be detected
so the Ubuntu Live CD cannot boot. What you normally have to do in
this situation is load the CD driver manually.

At the prompt, type the following:

modprobe ide_core
modprobe ide_generic
modprobe ide_disk
modprobe ide_cd
exit

After typing "exit" the system should boot and you can continue to the live CD.

Andrew.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Kagwe Gichohi
<kagwegichohi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> Kindly assist me on this one. I bought a new machine with vista home and I have every intention of using Ubuntu on it. i would like to keep the windows though and have managed to shrink the volume to create an unpartitioned space. When I slot in my ubuntu CD that was mailed to me (version 7.10) and restarted the machine, all I get is a command line. I havent the foggiest idea what to do with it. Info on the net seems to suggest that the live CDs come with an installer but I'm not sure how to get it to fire.
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> I have almost no experience with linux. I've only used it from time to time
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