Ubuntu Installation :: Installation Not Running On EasyNote NJ65
Apr 8, 2010
I recently got my hands on a brand new Packard Bell EasyNote NJ65 laptop which comes with Windows 7 Starter and I wanted to give it a try with Karmic Koala, since my old laptop (Compaq Presario F564LA) could run it with no problems.
When I tried to install or even, to run the LiveCD the computer just freezes. Simple as that. I've tried any posible solution but so far, I've been all out of luck. A quick round of Google searching has failed to provide any answer to my question, so that's why I came here.
I'm trying to perform an install of F14 (fresh install over F13), and it has been showing "running post-installation scripts" for 1 1/2 hours now. I am wondering if this is unusual and what the implications might be of power-cycling and rebooting. I'd note this is a fairly fast machine with 2 quad-core Xeons (I forget their model number).
i am trying to dual install fedora 14 alongside my current windows 7 home premium 64-bit. the main issue that i am having is when running the DVD you cannot see anything on the screen during the installation process so i can't see what i'm doing. other than that the DVD works correctly as far as i know. i have downloaded the iso twice and burned two separate disks and have had the same problem with both disks.
I am trying to get Ubuntu10.04 working on a packardbell easynote r1004 but the wireless device is not being recognised. I have ethernet working and have tried updating.It had found a hardware driver for a software modem..
My brother installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a Packard Bell Easynote NJ65. He has a wired home connection, which seems not to be working now. It was working with the same machine under Vista. What are the first places I should look? Any hints or clues or people with similar issues would be most welcome.
Just bought a laptop Packard Bell Easynote TJ61 with an internal sound card Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) and successfully installed Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit. Only problem was that the microphone (internal and external) was not working in all applications (soundrecorder, audacity, skype etc). Output audio (eg- Rythmbox) worked fine with ALSA and PulseAudio.
Tried a LOT of stuff, but the decisive move was to add: options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=laptop to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and reboot.
I'm having trouble with the keyboard on the Packard Bell EasyNote R4. I'm using the standard xorg driver that gets configured by the Debian Lenny installer and the problem is that the keys sometimes generate weird keycodes or something, causing unwanted behaviour of the window manager (XFCE 4.4) such as creating a new terminal window or shading windows. Could the keyboard be faulty or does someone know of a driver that would work better with this model?
I have a 4 Gb USB stick on which I have a few different distros and flavours etc (see end for how I made the disk). There is a generic boot and gfxmenu folder to give the boot options. For each distro / flavour I then copy the OS files from the .iso and add the relevent lines to menu.lst in boot. This system normally works perfectly. I tried to add UNR to the list (for a netbook I have), but failed, perhaps because I copied the wrong files across:
From the UNR.iso I copied: A) casper/filesystem.squashfs and renamed UNR.sqfs B) isolinux folder and renamed UNR C) casper/initrd.lz and casper/vmlinuz to UNR folder on stick D) Adding these lines to the boot/grub/menu.lst:
Unfortunately I get dropped to an ash shell after the system complains that it 'Gave up waiting for a root device'
Anyone got any ideas how to resolve this issue. I would really like to have UNR on the stick along with the other linux flavours so I can show people with netbooks its potential.
Full Instructions for multiple liveUSB:
1) Format the USB drive with ext3 without any partitions 2) Copy the OS files from a liveCD or mount the image and extract the isolinux dir and livecd.sqfs to the USB 3) Creat 2 folders- USB:/boot and USB:/gfxmenu 4) Copy /boot/grub/ folder from a running linux install into the USB:/boot folder 5) Copy /usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxos/boot/message to USB:/gfxmenu 6) Modify USB:/boot/grub/menu.lst to:
7) Install GRUB to MBR of USB:
If you want multiple boot images then repeat step 2 for each (assign each pair a unique name) and then add relevent stanzas to menu.lst:
Is there ANY way to get PHP 5.2 running in Ubuntu 11.0.4?? I have tried everything and cannot figure this out.. We have an app that just will not play well with PHP 5.3 at all..
Tonight I installed Lucid(10.04) on my laptop, which is a VAIO VPCCW. The first problem I faced was the blank screen when trying to install Ubuntu. That was solved by pressing F6 and activating "nomodeset" Afterwards, I had to edit Grub, removing splash and quiet and adding nomodeset, to get it running.
Because of the low resolution and lack of support for effects, I intalled the proprietary driver for nvidia and restarted. Now I'm getting a message saying the display cannot be found etc and it is running is low graphics mode. When trying to open nvidia-settings, I get "You do not appear to be using nvidia X driver. edit your X configuration file(just run nvidia-xconfig as root) ... " And obviously, running nvidia-xconfig as root didn't change anything.
I was forced to move to Windows a month ago as a result of this issue(bought a new laptop) and now I see the problem is not resolved yet.
My only OS is Ubuntu 10.04. There are no partitions ( that is, I use the entire hard drive for Ubuntu, obviously). I need to run Backtrack for security testing. I've seen lots of various options from running it in virtualbox to running it from a bootable USB but there seem to be problems originating with the grub bootloader. One thing I keep seeing is that the only way to get round all this is to hard drive install Backtrack first and THEN install Ubuntu. Clearly I don't want to have to reinstall my entire world on my pc, play with settings, re-install a billion apps etc.
My question is this - Given that I have 10.04 installed and running alone, how do I get Backtrack installed/running easily and without all the associated disasters? I like the USB option because the thought of screwing the grub up does not appeal; I don't want to reboot my computer and be told "I'm grub and I don't want you to load anything" / Other Annoying Message.Backtrack's site says they didn't provide a USB option so what should I use to burn the ISO (does Unetbootin work for Ubuntu?
I'm on a private network and would like to have XDMCP turned on so different users can access the system with a greeter and log in to their own desktop.To test if this works, I've tried 'Xnest :1 -query localhost' - which on other _nix systems will bring up the greeter, then I know that all I have to do is deal with firewall issues, etc. On Ubuntu 11.04 I just get a blank screen.I've seen others asking for help with XDMCP, and the answers are to use VNC, which from my experience allows you to _share_ the current desktop, not create a new one for a different user to use at the same time. If I am mistaken please let me know.So, any ideas on how to get XDMCP up and running on Ubuntu 11.04?
I'm using a Packard Bell Easynote Tn36 laptop, and I'm having trouble with Ubuntu 10.10 and the wireless network card, (probably because of lack of driver). I.e. it is disabled.
I have Packard Bell easynote tn36 and I used to use ubuntu 10.10 and then when I upgrad it to ubuntu 11.04 the wireless doesn't work (disable) and I can't press the botton of Enable wireless.
My laptop pc is corrupted and it wont start up Windows and my cd rom is fried it wont work. The only way to use the pc is to run slax or any distro of Linux by USB. I want to fully install Ubuntu on the laptop but the install file is .exe and wont open up with Linux. I would like to know if there is a way to download and fully install ubuntu on my pc via USB.
I am getting the following upon booting up after upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04 Beta:
Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode. The following encountered. You may need to update your configuration to solve this
(EE) intel(0):[drm] failed to set drm interface version (EE) intel(0):Failed to become DRM master (EE) intel(0):failed to get resources:Bad file descriptor (EE) intel(0:Kernel modesetting setup failed (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
I then press the OK button (no other option given). Then I'm presented a menu with the following options:
(x) Run Ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just one session ( ) Reconfigure graphics ( ) Troubleshoot the error ( ) Exit to console login ( ) Restart X
Cancel and OK buttons. I choose OK and the system seems to boot ok.
I'm not sure what is wrong or how to go about solving this one.
How do you actually install ubuntu? I cant figure it out, its nothing like windows! I download the unetbootin to make a boot usb drive.. I did that but when it boots it ask goes blue with a thing flash default. Then it asks me to press tab, when I do that it comes with a cmd. What should a write? If I click esc on the keyboard it brings a cmd line. If I write like E:dir it says kernel invalid. What is a cmd that runs the cd on a boot for ubuntu. How hard is to install it??
I installed the Nvidia driver. When I click on the "Monitors" package it then asks if I want to use my graphics drivers vendor's tool. I say yes and then it pops up the Nvidia X Server Settings dialog. In that menu it indicates I need to run nvidia-xconfig from root. I did this and then restarted the xserver but to no avail I get the same message every time I try to run "Monitors", that I need to run nvidia-xconfig.
I have a laptop (hp 8530w) with Vista and disk encryption software installed on the internal hard drive. As I cannot touch the internal hard drive, I would like to install and run Ubuntu from an external hard drive (500 hitachi in an enclosure with USB and eSata port). The idea being that when the drive is connected I run Ubuntu and when it is not the internal HDD is used to boot. I already installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on this external hard drive. I would like to run it using eSata interface and not USB as the former offers better performance. Unfortunately, as it turns out my BIOS does not allow me to boot directly from eSata disk. I can however boot from USB.
I thought it would be possible to install a boot loader on a USB stick and tell it somehow that Ubuntu is installed on the eSata disk and load the system from there. I installed GRUB on a USB stick without grub.cfg. This allowed me to load GRUB and get to its shell. Here I discovered another issue. Using GRUB "ls" command the eSata drive is not listed - I can see the USB stick (hd0) and the internal drive (hd1) but no eSata drive. Not being an expert I don't know when in the boot process the eSata disk is detected. If I load Ubuntu completely from USB stick I can see it listed with "fdisk -l" command.
At this point, knowing that I can boot from USB, I'm wondering if there is any way to have a hybrid solution with USB stick storing only what's required to bootstrap Ubuntu, and then have everything else stored on and mounted to my external drive. Is there any other, better way (assuming I cannot do anything on the internal hard drive like repartitioning it, etc ...) to get to what I'm after? I know that I could boot and run Ubuntu using USB interface only but as I stated above I would like to use eSata as it offers better performance. I suppose I'm not the only one trying to do that. Unfortunately my web research did not reveal any solutions.
I'm running low on disk space on my 10.04 server install. I'm running my normal partitioning without any lvm.
Is there a way I can create a new lvm set from my /home which is almost full and a new hdd to expand space just on that partition without killing everything on it?
I recently (yesterday) did a clean install of 9.1 (karmic koala) on my system. After having struggled with various video driver issues with my 7800GT and getting the proprietary nvidia drivers installed, everything seemed to be working fine. Today I ran some updates and now when the system boots, it crashes down to a text login prompt.
when I try to run startx from the command prompt, I get:
Code: FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the Nvidia kernel module. Please check your (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages. (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error,0)
I have installed 'VirtualBox' on my lucid lynx and want to load the Microsoft XP OS. When I start the virtualization I get this message in the VirtualBox terminal---"Fatal: Could not read from the boot medium! System Halted."--- What could be the problem?
unable to run opencv opllications on ubuntu(10.04)error:OpenCV Error: Unspecified error (The function is not implemented. Rebuild the library with Windows, GTK+ 2.x or Carbon support. If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, install libgtk2.0-dev and pkg-config, then re-run cmake or configure script) in cvNamedWindow, file /home/p/OpenCV-2.0.0/src/highgui/window.cpp, line 100.
I have ran the installation of Ubuntu (10.10) on my Acer Aspire computer, I chose to wipe the disk and use only linux, however after installing and restarting, I get some sort of terminal/command line and not the actual operating system. I did not install Ubuntu Server and this disk worked on another computer (actually the one I am typing this on right now).
I've been having some problems getting the Ubuntu (9.10 ?) installer to start on my desktop computer. I have created a bootable USB stick using usb-creator (from my laptop), and am able to boot from it on my laptop. However, I get a "Boot error" message on my desktop when I tell BIOS to boot from the USB stick.I'm not sure this is related, but I tried to boot the Ubuntu install CD from my external USB CD Drive, but nothing happened - it just proceeded to boot from my primary hard drive. I have enabled USB boot in the BIOS, but it doesn't list the USB stick as removable media. It lists as a hard disk drive instead. I can't find the external CD Drive on any of those lists.
(Also, the laptop is dual-booting and has grub installed. The desktop has a single OS - WinXP (and hence doesn't have grub installed).. I don't know how this should affect the USB boot though)(I don't think this is a problem with only the Ubuntu installer, but I'd like a confirmation on this)
I have a persistent usb key with Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook remix. I need to know how to stop the installer fro0m running on boot so that it just goes to the desktop
Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode.Your screen, graphics card And input device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure these yourself. ( If we press OK ) ( A dialogue box appears.) What would you like to do
*Run ubuntu in low graphics mode for just one session * Reconfigure graphics. *Troubleshoot the error. *Exit to console login. *Restart X. cancel/ok
(If we cancel Commands appear like this
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS johnson-desktop tty2
johnson-desktop login:-
(If we press OK another dialogue box appears.)plz help me for solving this problem
I am struck with this problem since yesterday, Everything was working fine until i got a sudden error saying[Warning]: PDO::__construct() [pdo.--construct]: [2002] No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock) (Database/class.SWIFT_Database.php:330)Then i went into server and restarted server. it started saying
/opt/lampp/lampp restart Stopping XAMPP for Linux 1.7.4... XAMPP: Stopping Apache with SSL...
I have a emachines et1331g-03w I am trying to install Ubuntu on. I have tried both 8.04 32-bit and 9.10 32-bit desktop versions. They both just go to a black screen and hang when you try to run from the cd or install. I have not tried the 64-bit version yet.
I have a old Dell Inspiron Laptop I would like to use, but it dosent have awhole lot of memory 160megs worth and tried running the live cd of Ubuntu and Lubuntu and all i get on the screen is a blinking cursor. It give me the option to boot off the cd but that is where it stops.
