ubun7uf@n
December 24th, 2008, 10:43 AM
hi,
i am trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on my HP XW 4550 workstation on a free space on one of the hard disk. as i am booting from the live dvd (which i got through shipit channel), the booting goes fine until a stage is reached where all i see is the mouse cursor and Ubuntu desktop background (i.e. solid brown color screen). the dvd is not being read, the mouse moves, keyboard lights are working but still the os is not completing the boot. i left it like that overnight and yet nothing happened.
the following are my hardware specifications:
HP XW 4550 workstation
4 GB RAM
500 GB x 2 SATA Hard Disk
NVidia 2800GT VGA card
2 x 1Gbps NIC
DVD-RW
2 x HP L2208 Wide Screen LCD monitors (22"screens) connected to the VGA card
i would like to mention that i tried to install ubuntu on another desktop pc i.e. HP 2350dc, Core2Duo, 1 GB RAM, no VGA card, and it installed like a charm. Then i tried to install Mandriva 2009 on my workstation i.e. HP xw4550 and it installed smoothly.
I have Vista and XP running on my HP workstation running fine. i created a 250 GB empty space too for ubuntu to install.
Please advise a way out.
i am trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on my HP XW 4550 workstation on a free space on one of the hard disk. as i am booting from the live dvd (which i got through shipit channel), the booting goes fine until a stage is reached where all i see is the mouse cursor and Ubuntu desktop background (i.e. solid brown color screen). the dvd is not being read, the mouse moves, keyboard lights are working but still the os is not completing the boot. i left it like that overnight and yet nothing happened.
the following are my hardware specifications:
HP XW 4550 workstation
4 GB RAM
500 GB x 2 SATA Hard Disk
NVidia 2800GT VGA card
2 x 1Gbps NIC
DVD-RW
2 x HP L2208 Wide Screen LCD monitors (22"screens) connected to the VGA card
i would like to mention that i tried to install ubuntu on another desktop pc i.e. HP 2350dc, Core2Duo, 1 GB RAM, no VGA card, and it installed like a charm. Then i tried to install Mandriva 2009 on my workstation i.e. HP xw4550 and it installed smoothly.
I have Vista and XP running on my HP workstation running fine. i created a 250 GB empty space too for ubuntu to install.
Please advise a way out.