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Asked by Silenltlord.2008

hello, my first post here i hope you help.

i am running vista (not the reason i am on), i got a Hewlett Packard Pavilion of a mate and i am trying to install ubuntu.

i used a virtal machine to mess around with it and found it very good to use so i am trying to install it on the pc shown above but i get a flashing _ and thats it nothing after that.

i have all the requiments it needs and i think more.

the iso file was downloaded from the main site.

sooooooo please help me,

i forgot to say the main reason for this is because i am running a bussness and need a small pc to back upprivate data.

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : 		#1

Maybe there is a problem with the drivers.

Have you tried choosing the "safe" load option on the CD when booting? Or "failsafe" - I forget how is it called.

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

First must have Ubuntu 7.10 live install cd i suggest you the Standard personal Computer (is the 32 bit version)
Download it from: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Then burn the downloaded iso image to a cd at lower speed you can do (4x).
Here a good howto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

If you are installing Ubuntu on a already installed Windows...
Here a video http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/Installing_Ubuntu_with_Windows_Dual-Boot

Usually you don't need of any drivers with Linux

If something go wrong you can put some boot options,
for example some Acer Travelmate wants "noapic" kernel boot parameters
you can find the boot options howto here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

If you have any issue this q&a will help you

Hope this helps

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Silenltlord.2008 (marc-reed1) said : 		#3

i am gonna say thanx but it is saying something about 'ACPI=FORCE mus be enabled' i enable it but then it comes up with a error.

and should it be saying no bios

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please try the acpi=force boot parameter you can find the boot options howto here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Hope this helps

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