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danielduke
September 7th, 2008, 12:40 PM
Hi,
I am working on a system for some friends and I'm having trouble installing. When I boot from the CD, it takes me to the start menu and I select the live environment.

However, once it gets past the mythbuntu loading screen (the one where the bar goes back and forth under the mythbuntu) instead of loading the live environment, it goes to a console output that displays some errors for a while, and occasionally it will bring up a command line input at the end of all those errors.

My question is this, does anyone know how I can get it to load the live environment so I can install mythbuntu, or how to install from the command line it occasionally brings up?

Also I checked the disk both by the automated checking method and by running it on my current computer (much better specs) and it booted into the live environment fine.

info about my system
cpu : pentium 3 650 MH (I think, 600 something anyways)
Ram : 256 meg
hd : 500 GB
video : nvidea fx 5500
tuner : Hauppauge wintv pvr 150

Thanks in advance for your help
fiddler616
September 7th, 2008, 02:37 PM
I've only ever used a straight-up Ubuntu Live CD, so I might be wrong.
However, in the 'start' menu (can't we find a better name, I'm envisioning Windows right now) it has Try Ubuntu, Install Ubuntu, Check CD for defects, etc.
Try checking the CD for defects.
If the CD is fine, then maybe you're one of the unfortunate people who was a very *ubuntu un-friendly computer...
danielduke
September 7th, 2008, 03:44 PM
Yeah that is the automated method that I tried, the cd says its fine
fiddler616
September 7th, 2008, 03:47 PM
It's probably weird hardware then... :(
danielduke
September 7th, 2008, 04:29 PM
do you know if it is still possible to install? and how I might do that?
tgm4883
September 7th, 2008, 05:24 PM
I've only ever used a straight-up Ubuntu Live CD, so I might be wrong.
However, in the 'start' menu (can't we find a better name, I'm envisioning Windows right now) it has Try Ubuntu, Install Ubuntu, Check CD for defects, etc.
Try checking the CD for defects.
If the CD is fine, then maybe you're one of the unfortunate people who was a very *ubuntu un-friendly computer...

How about boot menu ;)
fiddler616
September 8th, 2008, 02:37 AM
@tgm4883: THANK YOU!
@OP: You can install directly from the Boot Menu (boot menu? Boot menu?) by hitting the, um, "install". This is actually preferable to installing from the Live session because it is significantly faster. If that brings up console-style death like trying to start a Live session, then you're in trouble, and you're also out of my "I know about this! range". So my guess would be that you just have the hardware of the darned, and hopefully my posts will bump this thread enough to get a better expert in.
That said, it wouldn't hurt to burn a new CD anyway. Fix: Never mind, from the original post the CD seems great.
Do you have your heart set on Mythbuntu? Because another distro with MythTV might be a LOT easier...
tgm4883
September 8th, 2008, 11:13 AM
Try just install from the boot menu. If that doesn't work, try safe graphics mode, if that doesn't work, try the alternate CD, if that doesn't work, try a Ubuntu CD, then install mythbuntu-desktop, if that doesn't work then...um.... I don't know cause if that doesn't work and you can't even install Ubuntu then there are some other underlying issues.
danielduke
September 9th, 2008, 06:37 PM
Thanks all, I'll give some of the things ya'll mentioned a try, but I probably wont get around to it till the weekend. I'll post the results when I find out more.