firebadger
January 18th, 2009, 01:52 PM
I'm trying to install Kubuntu on a HP2133 and I'm slowly being driven mad.
It doesn't have a CD drive so I had to create a bootable USB stick instead. I did this using Unetbootin diskimage (instructions here (http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/27/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-or-memory-card/)).
I tried the normal kubuntu install iso but it froze after a while and I understand that I need to set the kernel options live xforcevesa but I couldn't figure out how to do that successfully with my Unetbootin usb boot disk. Has anybody any advice on this?
I then tried the alternate CD which by default (in my case anyway) seems to use a command line installer. This runs all the way though, but left things with a invalid partition table. I tried this twice - just in case - but it happened both times.
If anybody has any thoughts, tips or ideally a step by step guide to installing Kubuntu 8.10 on the HP2133 that doesn't require me to have a Windows machine or Windows already installed on it I'd be very grateful.
It doesn't have a CD drive so I had to create a bootable USB stick instead. I did this using Unetbootin diskimage (instructions here (http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/27/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-or-memory-card/)).
I tried the normal kubuntu install iso but it froze after a while and I understand that I need to set the kernel options live xforcevesa but I couldn't figure out how to do that successfully with my Unetbootin usb boot disk. Has anybody any advice on this?
I then tried the alternate CD which by default (in my case anyway) seems to use a command line installer. This runs all the way though, but left things with a invalid partition table. I tried this twice - just in case - but it happened both times.
If anybody has any thoughts, tips or ideally a step by step guide to installing Kubuntu 8.10 on the HP2133 that doesn't require me to have a Windows machine or Windows already installed on it I'd be very grateful.