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Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: ^Black on March 08, 2007, 03:17:23 am
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 6.06 on a compaq, yes it meets the requirements. The ubuntu installation freezes here.
I've tried everything, any ideas?
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http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ would probably be the place to ask
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Tried that :-?
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I did an instalation of Ubuntu 6.10 on a Compaq Presario V2000 for someone and had the same problem. If the live-cd menu is able to come up try the safe graphics mode, that is what worked for me when I tried the second time.
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Thanks! That worked for me as well...though now I have a nonmoving cursor on a blacnk red screen :P
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I would suggest you start using MicroSoft Windows instead of that retarded Linux. Everybody knows Linux is only being used by complete morons. Windows is a real OS. At least their screens are blue, like water, and not red, like the lifeblood Linux sucks out of you.
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Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.
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Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.
Get a job you slacking hippie.
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WTf my screenshots are green and black, no red in there.
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Aah yes, the joys of Linux installation. You need a stone altar and a live herring. You must sacrifice the herring to appease the mighty Dreadlord Tux. He might grant you a successful installation, but he normally just pecks your eyes out and craps in your mouth.
I may be a Linux fanboy but the installation is still a joke in many cases. For a given macchine, some distros work, others crash completely, some just stop part way through.
For example, my old fileserver had a VIA M10000 itx board. It's been around for a while, and kernel driver support for the hardware is there. Mandrivel 2006 installed fine, Fedora Crap 6 installed flawlessly too. Unbuntu 6.06? No. Stops on both graphical and text-based installs. Remains responsive, but the install just stops. Not even a clue-bearing error message. Wonderful.
The FLOSS hippies still wonder why it's not "the year of the Linux desktop" too. Sigh.
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If you can't find a simple fix out there, then all you can do is file a bug report with Ubuntu and use a distro that'll install. Welcome to crapland.
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The box I use as a file server paused for more than half an hour during the install. No idea why. I've always found the alt cd to be better, don't have to wait for the stupid GUI to get the install going.
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Aah yes, the joys of Linux installation. You need a stone altar and a live herring. You must sacrifice the herring to appease the mighty Dreadlord Tux. He might grant you a successful installation, but he normally just pecks your eyes out and craps in your mouth.
I think I'm falling in love...
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Aah yes, the joys of Linux installation. You need a stone altar and a live herring. You must sacrifice the herring to appease the mighty Dreadlord Tux. He might grant you a successful installation, but he normally just pecks your eyes out and craps in your mouth.
I may be a Linux fanboy but the installation is still a joke in many cases. For a given macchine, some distros work, others crash completely, some just stop part way through.
For example, my old fileserver had a VIA M10000 itx board. It's been around for a while, and kernel driver support for the hardware is there. Mandrivel 2006 installed fine, Fedora Crap 6 installed flawlessly too. Unbuntu 6.06? No. Stops on both graphical and text-based installs. Remains responsive, but the install just stops. Not even a clue-bearing error message. Wonderful.
The FLOSS hippies still wonder why it's not "the year of the Linux desktop" too. Sigh.
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If you can't find a simple fix out there, then all you can do is file a bug report with Ubuntu and use a distro that'll install. Welcome to crapland.
I'd like to see you install a standard Windows XP on a SATA only computer once. It could prove interesting :)
Or even better, on a computer with both a main SATA disk and a secondary IDE disk.
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I'd rather try to install a hand grenade in my arse.
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I'd rather try to install a hand grenade in my arse.
Just don't forget to pull the pin before, it is easier than doing it after 8)
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I'd rather try to install a hand grenade in my arse.
Just don't forget to pull the pin before, it is easier than doing it after 8)
Can't you do it afterwards? With your teeth?
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Now that's what I call a challenge!
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lol, but btw, could someone tell me what the pros and cons of linux are above windows :)
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DON'T EVEN GO THERE.
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ow srry, pros only then :wink:
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Well, where do we start? Oh yes, many distros almost have a working installer.
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http://cityblogger.com/archives/2007/01/24/101-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-windows
This gives pros on why you'd switch to it from Windows, which is what you may be doing.
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Have you heard of installing Ubuntu 6.10 from inside a running version of Microsoft Windows?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows
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I have. I've installed both Debian and Ubuntu from within Windows XP to test out the "installer.exe"/"goodbye-microsoft" program.
It worked fine, but it gave the new OS a lot of my Windows stuff that I was going to change, such as hostname...all things that were changeable but a bit of an annoyance to find out all the things it stole from my windows install. XD
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Might I suggest PCBSD, so much easier than install ubuntu, hell it was voted easiest to install OS (yes, easier than windows) in some magazine or another.
http://www.pcbsd.org/
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Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.
Get a job you slacking hippie.
I'm 14.
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Back on topic..
Try disabling the APCI before booting into the live cd, it will be an option before you load the live cd.
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i read the page with all the pros of linux, thx but no thx. Basicly, it's not a gaming os but a work os, which doesn't sound appealing to me :)
Ow well, just my 2cents :)
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Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.
Get a job you slacking hippie.
I'm 14.
And? You can deliver newspapers, or work in a supermarket.
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I work at a computer repair shop...its illegal to pay me
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I work at a computer repair shop...its illegal to pay me
Isn't it only illegal to pay you if you work more than a given amount of hours? I'm not sure though, but anyways, you do have a job, and a computer repair shop too, I bet you can get a discount on your copy of MicroSoft Windows XP Professional.
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or get the oem edition?
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In the US you can have a workers permit at 14.
Anyways even if you can get windows for cheap that's no excuse to get it (microsoft will still benefit, which is bad).
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Might I suggest PCBSD, so much easier than install ubuntu, hell it was voted easiest to install OS (yes, easier than windows) in some magazine or another.
http://www.pcbsd.org/
Yeah, all BSD systems are badass. I'd say that it's the same ease to install as the graphical Debian and Ubuntu installers. In PC-BSD I hated their weird little package installer things, I just used the ports normally like you would on a FreeBSD system.
Whatever *nix OS you get, just make sure that it has a good package management system and is easy to upgrade. I remember when Red Hat was a bitch...