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ubuntu wont load on a ibm 1400I laptop

Asked by wrsymons

While loading ubuntu on a series I IBM laptop 1400 256 Meg of ram 4.5 gig drive clean load no operating system. The load process locks up while detecting the cd rom hardware. I have loaded red hat 6.2 on this laptop many years ago and I just loaded suse 6.4 today and it loads fine. I am just getting back into Linux and I would really like to use ubuntu. Thanks in advance.

WRS

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Luca Bedogni (me-lucabedogni) said : 		#1

Mmmm... Maybe a bad CD? Have you tried with only one copy of Ubuntu?

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wrsymons (wrsymons) said : 		#2

The OS Ubuntu starts to load then I recive a screen that says it can not access the tty: job control turned off.

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