I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on my pc but every time I select an option to install from the cd, the pc reboots and I go through the same thing again.
I've tried installing within windows but that just installs a folder with Ubuntu in but I can't start Ubuntu up when it's finished installing?
I have a SONY PCG-R505TE laptop with an external CD/DVD, it connects via what I think is a PCMCIA card, the drive came with the laptop and functions fine. I currently have Windows XP running on this laptop, but it's very slow.I downloaded openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686.iso and sucessfully burned it to a CD.I have the laptop bios set to boot from CD, and it appears to be doing that no problem. When it boots I first see the welcome screen, then the openSUSE Installer, whether I select the Live (GNOME) option, or the Installation.. it loads the kernel, and then loads the KIWI boot systemit is on the third event, waiting for CD/DVD dvices to appear... that something seems to fail... I then see Failed to detect CD/DVD or USB drivethen a rebootexception and it reboots in 120 seconds.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have script it is for installing a program when I run it on terminal an old type GUI with a scroll bar and options appears. I can go from option to option but the first one is default selected and I can not select any other one it is something like that:[*] option 1
[] option 2
[] option 3
I can go over option 2,3,.. but the first one is default selected [*] with the asterisk. How can I move asterisk to any other option? when i go over another option and hit enter it is executing the default one.
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition. I followed the instructions for installation available on "ubuntu.com". After installation at restart I didn't get window to select operation system. It restarted with already available Windows SP3 OS. The drive on which i installed ubuntu is not shown on windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm about to install a version of Ubuntu onto a 32GB flash drive, I've downloaded are Universal USB installer that will do most of the work for me, however, it asks
Step 4: Select a persistence option for your USB
and the options are
1GB CASPER -RW
2GB CASPER -RW
3GB CASPER -RW
4GB CASPER -RW
What is persistence? am I better off having more (ie 4GB) since my flash drive is a 32GB drive?
My development target environment is intel corei5 architecture. I want to build my source for i5 architecture. I am paning to use gcc 4.5.1. In the gcc manual i found an option to select the cpu type(-mtune = cpu_type).There is no i5 processor in the cpu type options.If i use -mtune=generic, will it produce optimized code for i5 architecture or it will produce the code for generic x86_64 architecture?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn order for TRIM to work on an SSD with encryption, I need to make sure to "select the AHCI option before installing the operating system."Does anybody know how to do this? I have no idea what this is talking about. I'll be installing 11.04 with no dual-boot. Just Ubuntu alone.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to recompile apache so I can select a different MPM compile time option. I have looked in the graphical application manager, but I don't see a development version of apache like you do for many of the packages. Am I not looking in the right place for the source code for the Apache 2.2.17 available with FC14?
Alternatively, I can download the source from apache.org for 2.2.17. However, the install options default to a host of different directories than the FC14 version does. Being somewhat OCD I hate to mess up my FC14 system by installing to a bunch of anomalous directories, and I don't want to break anything. I can change the default install directories, if I knew what the FC14 apache 2.2.17 was compiled with. There is an httpd-devel-2.2.17-1 package. But the description makes it sound like it is for developing additional modules. I want to recompile the main httpd-2.2.17-1 package. Does anyone know if this is a possibility?
I was installed linux mint in windows 7 using option "Install inside windows"... I got trouble with windows7 so i reinstalled it... but now there is no option to select OS at the start up... But i have the drive where i installed mint and all other files.. Is there any way to get it back.. Because i dont have time to reinstall mint...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just replaced F14 with F15 (clean install). Now, when I try to add my HP Deskjet 710 printer I'm not seeing any option to select the parallel port. I've tested the hardware with an old F10 live CD, and every thing's okay there. Does the parallel port still exist in F15, or has it been nuked?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an arbiter which determines and manages a lab. I am wondering if it's possible to remotely control the grub boot selection. Right now I have to wait for the nodes to boot, check the hostname and then rsync the new grub configuration and reboot the node, it's VERY timely so I am wondering if there is an alternative to this method?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu as a dual-boot system with Windows XP very carefully. Unfortunately, though given the option to boot Windows at the grub menu, when I select it, I get an error. Booting Ubuntu on my other partition works just fine, no issues.
I also attempted to access files from the first partition in Ubuntu using gparted, but once I mounted it, all of my files were not present. I only saw manufacturer files, and many files and folders I didn't recognize.
Also, as an aside, my laptop monitor is suffering from occasional black-outs during use. Ubuntu gave me a little toolbar flag, telling me to go to a website and use the patches given to fix it, but I'm not quite so sure where to input the given patch text. Do I really need to go through the trouble of finding the source code, etc., or is it more simple?
I know that there is a nice little launcher that will run the script for Grub to select a menu option upon shutdown for a reboot [URL]
I however would like to use this from Windows XP and have grub select menu item 2 during a reboot. Does anyone know if there is any way to set Grub commands from within Windows?
I've recently upgraded to 11.04.Till now, I could select an option to make the open folders on shutdown, to restore on startup.There was an option to restore running applications
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running an Acer 1810Tz, dual boot with win7.Under 9.10 and Grub I had no boot issues, however I have just completed the upgrade to 10.04 and upgraded GRUB to GRUB2.Everything boots just fine into Ubuntu, and my GRUB menu looks right, but when I select the Windows 7 option, the machine just hangs with a black screen, white cursor top left. I'm sure this is a trivial problem, something overwritten that shouldn't have been perhaps, but I have no clue where to start.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhich hardware components tend to cause compatibility issues? And how do you select a generic option that might work with your hardware?
I don't currently have any problems but curious to find out if there is a sequence of steps.
The last Windows OS I use is XP to run work software. Now my father-in-law Paul, has asked me if I knew what's with the printer drivers on W7. I was surprised by not knowing, for everything else I use Ubuntu. So here's the question when trying to print Paul gets a popup that says he must right click and select "run as administrator" but when he right clicks the option isn't available. I'm going over there tonight so does anybody know what Microsoft has worked out to make their OS safe and what I should do about getting his printer printing?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am sure that this is very simple but I have installed sound juicer and the gstreamer plug ins. The problem is i still cannot select MP3 as an output output option
View 3 Replies View RelatedFor some time, I have been trying to install fedora 14 on my pc, as I want a dual boot machine. It has windows xp already installed and running. I used liveusb creator to make a bootable usb. the problem is, when I log in and start the installer, it runs until I get the option "Select storage device". When I select the appropriate option , basic storage device, the installer screen disappears, and nothing more happens. I shall be much obliged if someone can point out the problem. My computer is a Dell optiplex 745 , 2.8 GHz with 512 Mb of RAM.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIBM 600X Thinkpad, 328 MB RAM
This laptop is currently running Ubuntu 10.04 just fine....if you count running
a bit......slow.
I have heard good things about Lubuntu and that it can speed things up, and that it uses pretty much the same installer as Ubuntu. However, just after I select either TRY or INSTALL (it doesn't matter) the screen goes black and the computer reboots.
A fellow on another forum mentioned he has a IBM 600e with only 128 MB RAM running Lubuntu. The 600e is a lessor form of my 600X, both coming out the same year. So, technically, my 600X should have no problems as they are the same machine, I just have more RAM and a higher Mhz.
I can boot Lubuntu liveCD I burned on a desktop machine just fine so, on the face of things, it looks like the cd is OK.
Can't boot the x64 version of the official install DVD or any mini-image from Alien Bob. Either way, the computer reboots a few seconds after loading the kernel. Running 13.1 x64 on the very same hardware right now. Edit: this system ran Slack 100% stably for about a year, and Ubuntu for a few years before that. I am using it to write this, and have no reason to suspect any kind of hardware failure. memtest passes.
I managed to snap a picture of the screen just before the reboot, here is the end:
Code:
Just as reported by AlleyTrotter below, every installation media I tried for 13.1 hangs right after loading initrd, and every installation media I tried for 13.37 rebooted with the message posted just above. I havent tried all the combinations (official, alien, DVD, CD, x64, x32, USB, PXE), but I tried a lot of them, all with the same consistent results.
I have 4G of RAM, and the workaround provided below by AlleyTrotter (booting with huge.s mem=3700M) worked. That is to say, I booted from the official x64 DVD and was able to log in as root, and everything seemed OK. I did not try to install, though, since I already successfully installed a minimal system from 13.0 media and then upgraded directly to full 13.37. Once again, my system is Dell XPS 630i. I see no reason to post other system specs since I don't know what exactly is at fault.
when I go to download 11.3 I am presented with the installation medium for a DVD installation with a button that says download DVD. Should there be an option to download an ISO option for a CD installation on this page along with the DVD version? Some of our older machines can only read CD's with a max size of 500+ megs.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Debian 8.1 LXDE 64bit on a Toshiba Chromebook cb30 from usb. When I select 'install' the laptop restarts and gets me back to the installer menu. I removed 'quiet' from the boot options and it seems that the reboot happens after initrd.gz is read. I previously installed the 32bit version on the chromebook and the installation process worked pretty much without any issues. I might have added 'mem=1024m' to the boot options, though even if I did, this doesn't do anything to my current attempt.
The chromebook processor according to `uname -a` is x86_64 Intel Celeron 2955U. how I could install the image or start debugging the issue?
Has anyone got any pointers on how to get 11.3 installed on a Dell Poweredge 6800 server? System starts to boot from Linux DVD, the screen goes screwy and then the system reboots.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just installed 5.6 using the x86_64 netinstall - all appeared to go well, albeit a little slowly. At the end of the install i rebooted the machine but CentOS won't load. If I select the CentOS option from grub (only other option is 'other') the machine instantly reboots.
Only options selected for install where 'server' and 'server gui'.
Editing the CentOS options shows the following but I've no idea whether this is correct or not (assume it is):
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.e15 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.18-238.e15.img
I'm an OpenSuse user wanting to try something different.Ubuntu Studios caught my attention. I had a brief play with an older version a while ago and liked whatI saw.Im having problems installing though.I've downloaded the 32bit version from the studio website link, and burnt the DVD.However the install always fails at the same stage: Select and install software.The error message is not specific, and no more information is given other than the step has failed.Any ideas what could be causing this? Ive tried to burn the DVD several times, on 2 different machines, but no luck so far.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI downloaded and mounted debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso on my work machine's VirtualBox v5.0.12 to check out Debian stable/Jessie's installer and clean installation in case I need to do it soon. I like the new installer compared to 11/24/2011 on my old desktop machine. It is much nicer, fancier with its advanced options, etc.
However, I ran into issues with its "Select and Install" part when I selected desktop managers (e.g., KDE and Gnome) and continued. It failed as shown in [URL] .... images. Why? I tried again from scratch and same thing. If I don't select any and just select non-GUI stuff (e.g, SSH and standard system utilities), then it works but I want the pretty GUI stuff.
I'm trying to install the ubuntu netbook remix on an older Eee PC (4 gig SSD drive), and it's not letting me get past the prepare the disk space.I'm booting from a USB key, and I can get it and do various things from the live image. However, when I go through the install, it gets to the "prepare disk space" screen, and then I can't proceed. Screen looks like this:Prepare Disk SpaceThsi computer has no operating system on it.(blue bar)free space 4MG, /dev/sdb11 3.7GBWhere do you want to put Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10? Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup (this one is selected) Erase and use the entire diskgreyed outlist box is shown, refers to sdaThis will delete Debian GNU/Linx (4.0) and install Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10o Use the largest continuous free spaceo Specify partitions manually (advanced)bar with slider for free space, /dev/ddb1, and Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10And then nothing else - no forward button, or anything like that.
View 2 Replies View Relatedok i have a trouble and the disk load... language and when i select apear statusbar but them nothing... i have a MSI DKA790GX, Athlon X2 5000+ BE, 2GB DDR(800), 500GB HDD, Ati Radeon 4870
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 x64 on a HP Pavilion p6565uk.
My PC is x64 compatible, although ubuntu will not install.
I don't get to any gui, it says ubuntu will continue install in 5 seconds, at 0, nothing happens. The CPU light is flashing, but nothing happens.
After about 10 minutes, it reboots, but when the HP splash screen shows (Before the boot selection screen) it just hangs. I have to do a hard shutdown to boot back up.
I am using wubi for install.