boo

Aloha !
Although I ran Redhat 5.2 several lifetimes ago, I still see myself as
a Linux newbie - patience requested !!

Situation : In trying to install 7.10 on a PC with XP on the first
approx. 150gb of a 350gb SATA drive, the install process hangs at the
"Where are you ? " stage. After selecting my city, the screen just
sits there ! Clicking the "Install" box at the bottom-left of the
screen takes me to the desktop, clicking on the 'Install" icon there
takes me back to the "Where are you ? " page.

I assume this is a hardware problem, so, here is what I have :
AMD X2 4200+ CPU
Asus M2R32-MVP Mobo
2gb Corsair 800gh DDR2 RAM
ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 2006 PCIe Video card
350gb Maxtor SATA HD with ca.150gb partition running XP, the
remainder of the drive unpartitioned, ie. free. I intend to assign the
'free' space to Ubuntu.

7.10 runs fine from the ISO as a liveCD but hangs while installing..

Any ideas ??

Regards, boo

Dan C

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:09:38 -1000, boo wrote:

> 7.10 runs fine from the ISO as a liveCD but hangs while installing..
>
> Any ideas ??

Use the "alternate" installation CD.


--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

Moog

Dan C illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:09:38 -1000, boo wrote:
>
>> 7.10 runs fine from the ISO as a liveCD but hangs while installing..
>>
>> Any ideas ??
>
> Use the "alternate" installation CD.

Absolutely.

Why though? And how?
Well, the LiveCD is designed to run just from RAM and the
CD. The "alternative" installation CD is designed to just give you a
hard drive install.

You can download it from the downloads page at ubuntu.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Select the version you want
You'll see a tick box under the green Start Download button
Make sure this is selected.

Don't worry about the term "text based installer". It is a very
intuitive installation routine. In my view, it's more intuitive than
the LiveCD graphical installer.

Good luck.

--
Moog

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the
leather straps."

Trevor Best

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:15:08 -0600
Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:09:38 -1000, boo wrote:
>
> > 7.10 runs fine from the ISO as a liveCD but hangs while installing..
> >
> > Any ideas ??
>
> Use the "alternate" installation CD.

Who are you and what have you done with the real Dan C?

--
If you can do ballet then you can do anything
except reach high things because you're dinky.
Kiera Best - Aged 6.

boo

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:09:38 -1000, boo <boo_is@home.now> wrote:

>Aloha !
>Although I ran Redhat 5.2 several lifetimes ago, I still see myself as
>a Linux newbie - patience requested !!
>
>Situation : In trying to install 7.10 on a PC with XP on the first
>approx. 150gb of a 350gb SATA drive, the install process hangs at the
>"Where are you ? " stage. After selecting my city, the screen just
>sits there ! Clicking the "Install" box at the bottom-left of the
>screen takes me to the desktop, clicking on the 'Install" icon there
>takes me back to the "Where are you ? " page.
>
>I assume this is a hardware problem, so, here is what I have :
> AMD X2 4200+ CPU
> Asus M2R32-MVP Mobo
> 2gb Corsair 800gh DDR2 RAM
> ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 2006 PCIe Video card
> 350gb Maxtor SATA HD with ca.150gb partition running XP, the
>remainder of the drive unpartitioned, ie. free. I intend to assign the
>'free' space to Ubuntu.
>
>7.10 runs fine from the ISO as a liveCD but hangs while installing..
>
>Any ideas ??
>
>Regards, boo

Many thanks to Dan C and Moog for your helpful information ! I'm
downloading the 'alternate' version now.
Regards, boo

Dirk T. Verbeek

Trevor Best wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:15:08 -0600
> Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:09:38 -1000, boo wrote:
>>
>>> 7.10 runs fine from the ISO as a liveCD but hangs while installing..
>>>
>>> Any ideas ??
>> Use the "alternate" installation CD.
>
> Who are you and what have you done with the real Dan C?
>

Truly an imposter.