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Cant install kubuntu on Dell Dimension 2400

Asked by Ronan Ryan

i installed kubuntu alongside xp. I boot kubuntu and it hangs on the the verify installation conf pop-up screen. It gives a error -ioerror broken pipe? the system is low spec with only 256mb and 2mb graphic built-in. im new to ubuntu so any help would be great. I booted it in demo mode and it works fine but a bit slow. but betr than xp.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

Did you MD5 test the .iso image before you burned it to CD/DVD or wrote it to the USB flash drive? (See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM.) If not, please do that now. If that doesn't check out, you'll have to redownload the .iso image, MD5 test the new image, and (assuming the new one checks out) burn a new disc or write it to the USB flash drive again.

Did you verify that the live CD/DVD/USB was written correctly and is readable by the machine on which you're installing? To do that, boot from it, and immediately when you see the person and keyboard icons at the bottom center of the screen, press Spacebar, select your language, and select "Check disc for defects". (This goes for USB flash drives as well as CD's and DVD's.) If that doesn't check out, you'll have to burn a new disc or re-write the .iso image to the USB flash drive (and run this test on it again).

If both of those things check out, then you'll have to provide more information:

(1) Are you installing from a CD, a DVD, a USB flash drive, or using some other method altogether?

(2) How, specifically, did you burn the image to CD/DVD or write the image to the USB flash drive?

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Ronan Ryan (madryan34) said : 		#2

sorry i should have mention that i installed kubuntu from the wubi app. Would you suggest a livecd installation would a better method for the machine?

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#3

It's probably low ram. If your onboard graphics is using some then you have less than 256MB and the ubiquity installer requires 256 minimum. If you do a non wubi install you can use the alternate installer that requires only 92MB RAM and then you can run Xubuntu on 192MB (so it should be passable).

The other trick doing it with Wubi is to create a swap partition on the fly during the install process (but that's a bit overly technical and I haven't done it myself) - besides it would probably run better on a direct install than with Wubi.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#4

I meant swap file (you could also create a swap partition, but you'd need to do that before hand).

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