Ubuntu :: Won't Install On One Dell Computer
Mar 14, 2011
Tried to install Kubuntu on a Dell Dimension 2350, 2gb ram, 250gb hd, single core intel 1.6mhz processor. It's opening screen comes up, tested drive, memory, and choose install, and there it sits, for hours, just Kubuntu logo, and the dots light across the bottom.
What I tried: Wiped the HD (same result) Changed CD/DVD Drive with new one (same result) Made new Kubuntu CD (same result) Checked and changed ribbon cables for new ones (same result) Checked all settings in the bios (same result) I tried putting in the XP install CD and it loaded. Wiped Drive again. Put same new CD/DVD drive in another Dell (this one a Dimension 5100 dual core), and same Kubuntu install CD and it installed with no problem.
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May 24, 2010
This card has been the bane of my existence for a while. In the old days I could get it to work with Fedora using a generic video driver. A friend recommended OpenSuse because of my love for KDE.
The good news is that install went greeeeat. But after that, I once again got a black screen with a line randomly done it. Is there a way to change? I tried changing those resolution options but it didn't work. I have the Windoze driver from Dell's site. Its Dell Inspiron 5160.
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I appreciate any "Helpful" solutions. Not in techy but layman's terms please as I won't understand. Also if you do reply, I am in the UK and also don't get notifications so I am not being rude if I can't get back to you quickly. I will be going to bed now.
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Apr 24, 2011
Program Knoppix 3.1 cdr
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At this point the computer is locked up and I have to turn it off. A restart causes the same action.
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May 25, 2010
i just installed fedora on my dell studio 1537 laptop, which has a broadcom 4322 for wifi, but the device isn't showing up and i can't get online with that computer.
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Apr 27, 2011
I have a dell CPi laptop that I only want to use for connecting to my office computer via freenx. The laptop has a pcmcia wifi card, 4gb hard drive space, 128mb ram, and is a Pentium II 400mhz. Can you recommend a linux distro for me? I won't use any features other than freenx and wifi, so i'm sure this laptop is fast enough for that.
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Jun 30, 2010
so here's my problem. I am trying to install windows xp on my computer in virtual machine so i can watch netflix on my computer. The disk will not start up, if I restart and try to boot from load i just sits there and says boot from cd. The disk drive plays music cd's fine, so i dont really know what the issue is.
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May 4, 2011
I am running (K)Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 64bit on a Dell Latitude E6400, WiFi Card Intel 5100. Never had any problems with networking. Up to about 2 weeks ago. I do realize there have been quite a few posts with this network adaptor, but non really described the problem I have here.
What happens is that suddenly the WiFi LED on the computer stops blinking, the WiFi connection gets disrupted, and the device is not recognized anymore when checking ifconfig. Only cold restarting the machine helps then... it will work for a while (between 1 and 20 minutes) and then crash again.
On Windows 7 the card works perfectly fine. With Ubuntu 11.04 in Live CD mode I have the same effects (connection crashes after a while). Also tried booting an older kernel, no success.
My exact hardware:
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I notived the following problems in /var/log/kern.log
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Sep 27, 2010
When I run the openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-x86_64.iso from an usb stick and select "Installation" or "openSUSE Live (GNOME)" the screen goes to black after showing the load bar for a while.
This is most likely a graphics driver issue but I have no idea how to fix it.
This happens on a dell precision M4500. The same usb stick works fine on another machine.
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Jan 22, 2010
I find myself in unfamiliar territory. I am attempting to get a Dell M610 (in an M100e) running Ubuntu 9.1 64bit to talk to a Dell EMC Fibre Channel Array. The Dell has an Emulex card in it and it appears that the driver is loaded OK. What I am not sure on is what to do next! I have the SAN end configured but how do I get my LUN mounted on Ubuntu ?
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Dec 19, 2009
I can't install OpenSuse 11.2 on my Dell latitude XT notebook.
1. I tried DVD x86-64 install. The process seemed ok, but after installing Suse can't boot - with its any menu item. Booting seemed ok, there was no errors in screen lines, but when GUI seemed try to load (the screen became colored), all freezed. VGA menu item and other boot menu options did not save the situation. Repeat booting from DVD with Recovery option showed not mount or not correctly unmount fs (which couldn't be corrected by recovery program), some not fatal difficulties in the core and other minor and correctable errors. But after recovery process the picture was the same.
2. Then I tried net install. The same picture.
3. Installing to clean hd... The same. (Manual partitioning - the same too.)
I will not describe my numerous different attempts (and wast time spent for net downloading), so far as I thought that the matter was in my adjustments in the installing process, because other Linux distributive (such as Mandriva, Ubuntu etc. tried by me) were installed without the slightest problem at the Latitude XT.
4. Then I downloaded and installed 11.1 version of Suse. There was only some minor errors, and booting was normal. But there appeared some problems with downloading from repositories and I couldn't update it to 11.2; and installing 11.2 over 11.1 from DVD resulted to the same problems.
5. After I searched this forum, I've tried different installing options (noacpi and so on) at last.. But without any result and any change.
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Dec 23, 2009
I am using a dell laptop which has Dell 1397 802.11B/G Wireless Mini Card. I not able to connect to internet and was not able to detect what actual problem is weather card is not supported (i.e. drivers are not available) .
Also, if any one can point to exact process to connect to wireless Lan using fedora12.
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Jan 12, 2010
My Dell Vostro 1520's Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card must not have been set-up correctly, as the Network Manager won't even let me select the wireless tab. Please just explain to me, step by step, what exactly I must do to make it work! Additionally, I can't figure out how to disable my Touchpad's Tap to Click funtionality, which must be done if I'm to effectively use my current KDE installation of openSUSE
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Apr 26, 2010
I met a weird problem when I try to install the new memory to my Dell T7400. The computer is installed ubuntu 9.10, 64 bit version and 8 G memory. I got extra 8 G memories, and installed them on the machine. But the problem is ubuntu does't recognize the new memories, but the BIOS does. I switched the position of the new memories with some old memories, but it turns out the old memories also can not be recognized by the system. I got some memory information by using cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2055440 kB
MemFree: 1019100 kB
Buffers: 105900 kB
Cached: 396800 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
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Jul 12, 2010
I downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 desktop and burned the CD. I changed the boot order on my Dell Inspiron 8100 to search for CD first. On startup, I see it flash - ISO LINUX something ............ The light flashes on my CD drive for a minute or so. I see a little icon at bottom of screen with a stick figure of a man and something else for a few seconds, then I see a white cloud flash on the screen that reduces in size and disappears, after another minute or so of the drive light flashing everything stops and still a black screen. Then, I tried hitting escape key a couple of times and I heard a few seconds of jungle music. The drive light flashes again for a while but nothing else happens. It seems like it's almost there, but not making it all the way for some reason.
By the way, if it matters, my Dell hard drive is partitioned to C: and D: I thought it would run a little faster that way, but not really noticable. I have most everything on C: right now. I hope to install side by side as I have a couple of applications I need Windows for, but would like to use Ubuntu for everything else. More questions about that later, on getting it to boot from the CD?
Since posting the above earlier under Dell, I have been able to boot from a borrowed 9.04 disk okay. And, was able to boot another computer with the 10.04 disk that I burned. The disk is apparently good, so why doesn't 10.04 work and 9.04 does?
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Oct 14, 2010
I've been trying for three days to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell GX240, with no luck. Each and every time, I boot from the Live CD and get as far as the language selection screen. I click "Forward," and the little gearwheel spins forever. Or until I power the machine down, whichever comes first. The BIOS is at its latest level (A05), and it's in original factory configuration -- I haven't made any modifications to it. I've also tried booting into "Try Ubuntu without installing," and running "Install Ubuntu" from within that environment, with the same non-results.
After a minute or so, the machine becomes completely unresponsive and I have to power down and start all over again. I've done a lot of prowling the web to find answers, most of which recommend adding "acpi=force" to the boot options. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me. Nor have any of the various acpi/apic options. I don't think this is a hardware problem, since I am able to install and run XP on this machine without any problems whatever.
Specs for the machine are:
256M memory, at 133Mhz
CPU speed 1.7 GHz, Pentium 4
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Feb 5, 2011
i want to install ubuntu in my dell..ive already installed one in my desktop can i use that installer to my dell mini inspiron 10?? i have a usb hard drive..or better to use usb stick? well what about blackbuntu? seems awesome can i install that in my dell?
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I have just installed Slackware 13 on my Dell but the BT LED is not lighted when I start machine.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am trying to install ubuntu server 9.10 on two dell poweredge 2550 servers that I have at work and I can't get the install to complete on either. I saw some posts somewhere saying that it could be bad memory in the computers so I even put brand new memory in each, which needed upgraded anyway but the install still fails.The install usually hangs when trying to detect network drivers and it also hangs on some other file (I forget now). I remember I had an older version of linux on one of them before. The install says the file is corrupted on the cd. I have burned multiple cd's in different drives on different computers using the lowest speed on all of them, and all install attempts fail. I can even take the exact same cd's and install in vmware on my mac so I know for a fact the cd's are fine. What makes me more confused is that I can install windows server 2003 without a hitch on both the servers I am trying to install Ubuntu on.
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I am trying to install ubuntu 8.04 general desktop flavour in dell poweredge 2650, but it is not working..doesnt ubuntu 8.04 supports installation in a dell poweredge 2650..if not so thn what can be done for that..any other latest version which does so??
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Feb 23, 2010
this is my first post sorry if im not clear OK i downloaded Ubuntu 9.1 32bit burned it to a CD and popped it in my dell latitude c600 i was going to set it up to dual boot with xp i already have 2 partions so every thing was ready
i hit install and saw a Ubuntu symbol fading in and out after that i got a whole heap of i/o errors ranging from 350 to 500 for the first number, then a bit later it loaded up the busy cursor for Ubuntu on a black screen it then changed to a cross outline and no matter how long i let i go for i do not change at all off that the disc isn't the problem because it works on my desk top live and install
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Aug 20, 2010
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a dell Inspiron laptop. When I choose the install option in the boot menu it loads my to a log in screen. but Ubuntu has never been installed in my laptop.
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Oct 25, 2010
I am attempting to load 10.10-i386 on a Dell Inspiron. I have created my boot CD and all works fine with the install manager until it gets to the "Who are you?" page. It will not let me advance past this page. I am a complete rookie on Ubuntu and Linux OS.
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Nov 9, 2010
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Apr 6, 2011
I can boot up with a live CD (Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.4) but it does not find the hard drive to install. Once it loads I can click on the install icon and I see Application at the bottom then it disappears and nothing happens. I know the hard drive works cause I installed windows xp on it.
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Apr 13, 2011
im trying to install ubuntu 10.10 on a dell precision m2400.The problem is that it goes into the "ubuntu" logo and it reads the cd... and nothing happens, it never leaves that screen
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May 1, 2011
Just installed 11.04. Before install, during live cd preview, it detected my dell wireless card and offered to install a Broadcom (as I remember) proprietary driver. However, after a proper install, it did not make the same offer and left no wireless available.
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Jun 28, 2011
Just got a brand new XPS 15 in the mail the other day. Under Windows 7, everything appears to work well enough. Once I installed Ubuntu though, the audio stopped working.
After a quick Google session, I saw that a few other people have had the same problem, but no one seems to have a solution. Maybe I'll get lucky.
What makes this extra upsetting is that I sprung for the high quality JBL speakers with the built-in subwoofer.
Specs:
Processor4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory3012MB
Operating SystemUbuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Audio AdapterHDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GT32N
KernelLinux 2.6.32-32-generic (i686)
Desktop EnvironmentGNOME 2.30.2
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Jul 6, 2011
I just installed 10.04 on a Dell Dimension T7500. I first set up linux partitions following first FAT16 (Dell Utilities) and second FAT32 (labeled OS) partitions. The installer suggested there was no OS when I was installing Ubuntu 10.04. After restart I see that the first option in boot order is "Onboard or USB CDROM drive". But Ubuntu never booted. I then changed boot order to first look in ID00 LUN0 ATA. Same thing..no boot of Ubuntu. On the other machines on which I've installed Ubuntu I have dual boot with Windows and have GRUB installed. So....how best to set this up and find out if I have a workable OS?
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