Linux woes
My dear husband got an installation DVD for Ubuntu 7.4 from a friend. He tried yesterday evening to install Ubuntu with that disk on his computer. the istallation went through, but at the end, wen the system prompted him to remove the disc from the drive and to press enter to get on, it didn't react to him pressing the enter key. No success whatever we tried.
So he tried with openSuse10.1, even though he doesn't want Suse. The installation was painfully slow, but finally he got a walking system. It was really slow at booting and the resolution was at 640x480 pixels and he couldn't change it. He went and downloaded a driver from ATI (the manufacturer of the graphics card). Installing the driver was a hassle because of that low resolution. But we succeeded eventually. When he tried to change the resolution (to 1024x769 or even 800x600) the x-server crashed. After the last try the computer wouldn't even boot anymore.
So today it's my task to install a working Ubuntu system on his computer.
At first I tried the Ubuntu 7.4 DVD, but that always collapsed after the boot screen. It showed me the boot screen and I could choose what I wanted to do. But after choosing either "Check the CD" or "start or install Ubuntu" (which should start the live system and worked yesterday) I saw a linux kernel loading and then the screen went dark.
After several tries I was fed up and took the Ubuntu 5.4 installation DVD (with which I installed my system) and inserted in the drive. Currently the installation is running, or rather, it just asked me for the user name and password of the first user.
Looks like success, but I won't yell that until I have a running system wth Gnome as GUI on a screen resolution of at least 800x600 (preferrably a higher resolution, it's a 17" flat screen).
Update: first reboot (after installing from disc) worked, and he's currently busy istalling very much stuff (but is still in text mode). That looks similar to how it looked when installing my computer (from which I'm posting) .
Second Update: X-Server did not start, but at least give me an error message. So far the installation is better than yesterday. Let's see what I can do about the x-server problem.
Third update My husband called and told me the hint to get the live cd running. And he said that the installation would just take ten minutes once the live cdis loaded. Reality is: after at least 5 minutes the live cd is finally loaded and 15 minutes later the system prompts for a reboot.
And now I'm back at the same problem as yesterday. Screen goes black when starting the system. It's either a missing driver or maybe the system tries again with a redicilously high screen resolution.
So he tried with openSuse10.1, even though he doesn't want Suse. The installation was painfully slow, but finally he got a walking system. It was really slow at booting and the resolution was at 640x480 pixels and he couldn't change it. He went and downloaded a driver from ATI (the manufacturer of the graphics card). Installing the driver was a hassle because of that low resolution. But we succeeded eventually. When he tried to change the resolution (to 1024x769 or even 800x600) the x-server crashed. After the last try the computer wouldn't even boot anymore.
So today it's my task to install a working Ubuntu system on his computer.
At first I tried the Ubuntu 7.4 DVD, but that always collapsed after the boot screen. It showed me the boot screen and I could choose what I wanted to do. But after choosing either "Check the CD" or "start or install Ubuntu" (which should start the live system and worked yesterday) I saw a linux kernel loading and then the screen went dark.
After several tries I was fed up and took the Ubuntu 5.4 installation DVD (with which I installed my system) and inserted in the drive. Currently the installation is running, or rather, it just asked me for the user name and password of the first user.
Looks like success, but I won't yell that until I have a running system wth Gnome as GUI on a screen resolution of at least 800x600 (preferrably a higher resolution, it's a 17" flat screen).
Update: first reboot (after installing from disc) worked, and he's currently busy istalling very much stuff (but is still in text mode). That looks similar to how it looked when installing my computer (from which I'm posting) .
Second Update: X-Server did not start, but at least give me an error message. So far the installation is better than yesterday. Let's see what I can do about the x-server problem.
Third update My husband called and told me the hint to get the live cd running. And he said that the installation would just take ten minutes once the live cdis loaded. Reality is: after at least 5 minutes the live cd is finally loaded and 15 minutes later the system prompts for a reboot.
And now I'm back at the same problem as yesterday. Screen goes black when starting the system. It's either a missing driver or maybe the system tries again with a redicilously high screen resolution.