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new pc Installation

Asked by khalid

I bought a new pc without an operating system. The CD worked fine as a live user, but when I clicked install, it took a very long time with nothing but a cranking sound of the optical drive. I aborted after a while, and now nothing works, and what ever I try I get that cranking sound of the optical drive. NO INSTALLATION :(

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BoeBoe (iwan-tan-yahoo) said : 		#1

Hi khalid,

This could be a faulty CD. Have you tried running 'Check CD for defects' from installation menu? If it's defect, re-burn the ISO.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

1.st i suggest you to install the 32bit release of Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit

Please make some common check using first boot menu Ubuntu live cd options...
This: http://i18.tinypic.com/6tzzndc.jpg
Try to perform the "Memory test" and the "Check cd for defects" to be sure the cd is read without errors by the destination pc cdrom driver

When you see the blinking cursor:
- first try to dynamically change screen resolution plese the press CTRL + ALT + "+" and/or CTRL + ALT + "-"
- Try to restart the graphic layer press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE

If you are still in trouble... please reboot your pc and starting with Ubuntu live cd please try to put some common Ubuntu kernel live cd options you can find the boot options howto here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Remove the "splash" and "quiet" options to see more boot infos message and/or errors.
Then try some commons parameters by putting them one by one or together:
noacpi nolapic nodma all_generic_ide

If this don't work i suggest you to download and burn on a cd at lower speed you can do (4x)
here an howto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
the Ubuntu alternate install cd iso image ( ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso ) you can download this cd from here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/

Hope this helps

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