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My problem is that when i download the 3.4 release, burned it to disk and ran it on my older pc it just loaded everthing and then the screen goes black. The cd drive light blinks a lot and stops after awhile also. Is this because of a graphics problem or not good enough system?
Try booting with "failsafe"
Ok thanx i got it to load from that. But i have a couple of problems.
1. what is the best screen setup i should use because right now when i go through all the screen and mouse steps and it finially boots up all the colors are all red and dark

2. How would i go about installing a audio recording program if at all possible. Could you even use a mic?

3. If I wanted to save something onto my harddrive for future use how would i do it? I'm currently just running the livecd and very new to this kinda stuff. My hdd is formated but it would be nice to run off of the hdd so it runs faster and other stuff. Is it possible to access a floppy disk and take stuff off of it as i have no internet on this junker.
1 might be from a weird graphics card. Is it the same with the other X server?

2 Audacity. Records from a mic fine ;) I've made some mp3 ringtones with it. You'll like what altering speed and other effects do to speech ;)

3 You should read some new-to-linux docs.. But to access another device, you need to "join" it in. In linux it's called mounting. So you join the contents of a device into a directory somewhere and if you move stuff to that directory, they will be on the device mounted there.. If you want to run off HD there are many options for HD installs..
Could you reccomend the best way for a HD instillation? Also once i intall it to the HD would i have to mount the HD so i'm not saving stuff onto the ram.

EDIT: i fixed my colors also. I changed the color depth to 32 bit. Now i just need to find the right resolution  :D
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