I thought I would take the plunge and install Ubuntu on my PC. Not taking a massive leap though, im installing it inside Windows. It seemed to install fine, but then it had to restart and I got this screen:
What does it mean? What can I do to get Ubuntu working? Oh, I run Windows 7 as my main OS.
Its been a while since I have used Linux, going back to the early realeases of Red Hat and Mandrake.
Decided to give it another shot and downloaded the 9.10 Desktop ISO.
I get tot the menu screen where I can Try Ubutu, Install Ubuntu, Test Drive, Test Memory ect.
Selected Install and it gets to the Ubuntu Icon screen, then goes to a black screen and hangs PC. Tried the Try Ubuntu Option same thing.
Redownloaded the ISO and burnt it again at 4x Speed, exactly the same thing. Created a bootable USB drive, tried installing it that way, same again. A little frustrated by this point.
Downloaded the Alternative Text Based Install, Installed fine, but as soon as Ubuntu Loads and gets to the Ubuntu Icon it goes black and hangs. code...
I have a computer that i wish to install ubuntu 10.04 on, it wont install tho, it tells me that it cant detect the cd rom (the drive it is booting from) and that i should insert a removable device with the drivers on it, except i dont have those and don't know where to get them. i cant boot from a usb but i have a usb with 10.04 on it just incase. i tryed this with both alternate install and desktop. i dont know what to do, i have invested 2 days to try and do this and i would really like to put this on my computer.
I have previously installed 8.04 on my computer with out such error and all of the hardware is the same (even the hard drive), and i lost the 8.04 disk. <(it was a live disk)
I trying to dual boot Ubuntu/Windows 7 on my computer. Here is my problem:
Info:
I used Wubi and ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso.
Main OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Videocard: Nvidia GT 240
Problems (underlined) as they occured:
1) Installed Ubuntu within Windows, rebooted, saw Ubuntu loading screen (with dots) and then I get graphics corruption (it's really bad I can't recognize anything in the screen).
Then I booted in recovery/failsafe graphic mode and I let the installation finish, then automatically rebooted.
2) Let it boot without pressing anything and instead of graphic corruption it boots in terminal.
Tried startx command but it says something relative to "x not found". Then I found out I had to install proprietary Nvidia drivers so I:
3) Booted again in failsafe graphic mode (in recovery mode) and tried to install it but... no internet connection.
I tried "sudo ifconfig eth0 up" and I got: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
NOTE: If I let it boot itself (terminal) I HAVE internet connection (found out with wget and ping commands).
after many minutes of getting ubuntu 11.04 to finally begin installation, it now freezes when booting.
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/dev/sda
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1GB 0xfd linux raid autodetect, logical partition
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1GB 0xfd linux raid autodetect
/dev/md0
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/dev/md1
RAID1 of /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5
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2) An add in Broadcom BCM5782 Gigabit card that was added I presume when the built in card failed (we have a number of machines like this around the school), configured as eth1.
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When I configure the device to use a fixed IP, I can configure the device, but I can't ping anything on the network other than myself. I suppose it is possible that both network cards have failed, but I get green link lights with both cards, when I connect them to my router, so I am at a loss as to why neither board seems to work. I don't have a spare network card to slide in because the computer takes a special mini card. Is there an easy way to test the board to see if the board is a problem?
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I get a very brief introduction message about ISOLINUX then the monitor refreshes and gives me the following message: "Press the <Enter> key to begin the installation process."
Naturally, I press the Enter key(s) on my keyboard. Nothing happens. I try Alt ASCII combinations that might mimic an Enter key. No dice. ctrl-alt-delete works, however, and the machine reboots.
My checksums for the iso's are perfect, and the install process triggers perfectly on other machines. Just not this one.
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eventually same type of problem happend when I was trying with fedora 10... fedora 9 and openSUSE 11 install smoothly in my 64 bit machine (compaq SR1730IL, Intel pentium 4, 524 and 1GB DDR2 RAM)
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I'm trying to migrate from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE but for some reason I can't get the install to work. I've tried installing the GNOME live CD both from a CD and a USB but after I select installation it goes to the loading screen for a few seconds and then the screen goes black and it stays like that till I reboot. Is it a problem with my hardware or something or did something miss-write when I burned the CD/USB?
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