2010-01-02, 10:13 PM
I am a casual Linux user, not very smart or experienced, and have some problems I find I cannot resolve. First of all, I am a college kid on winter break, and cannot get the usual live help from tangible people that keeps me able to use Linux normally. Second of all, I haven't got a hard drive in my laptop right now. I have a laptop which I am currently using and a desktop which dual boots vista and ubuntu studio as well. I cannot use the keyboard on the desktop and am worried if I restart it will it still not work because I can't put a password in when the keyboard elicits no response. It was working fine and then I replaced the mouse and now it won't do anything it is as if I am not hitting the keys. If I hit Caps Lock the light does not turn on or anything and the Num Lock light is on so it cannot have become unplugged. Anyway, I use my laptop and that is fine, but my laptop, not having a hard drive, boots with a Karmic Koala liveCD. I think the CD is having problems. I use the laptop and after two days or so have to restart it because things just quit working. I tried to make a new liveCD with my desktop computer to see if it would resolve the issue but the CD does not work- it gets a lot of buffer i/o errors and sqshfce errors or something like that. Anyway, none of the flash plugins can be found when I attempt to install them and I don't know enough about Linux to install the tar.gz (I tried but did not really have a clue once I got to the middle of the instructions and kind of abandoned the attempt) so if you could explain to me in the simplest terms possible how to make a liveCD I would greatly appreciate it.
