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Neil Williams writes: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 00:35 +0100, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi all I'm still having no joy loading Ubuntu onto my Tyan Thunder LE. I've >> got Ubuntu 7.10 that won't load, Fiesty Faun and also a SUSE. Do I need a >> spesific distro cos it's a server board? > > 1. Use a more recent edition of Ubuntu or the current Lenny installer > 2. Use the text-only installer > 3. Always be extremely verbose about errors and problems and always > include the entire error message. "won't load" is a completely useless > statement. Won't load from what? At what stage? With what error message? > What stages had completed? Which other methods had you tried? What were > the error messages from those? >> ...I didn't think I did but why am I >> having these problems? > Nobody can tell you because you didn't give a useful description of the > problem(s). > > You cannot expect help from a 4 line request that provides no useful > information. > Neil Williams ....point taken. I was just making a general enquiry to begin with in case the answer was as simple as; "use *insert spesific distro here" I will attempt another install and give the exact error message... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html