RedSpider93
May 9th, 2009, 03:33 AM
Hi Guys, Here's my situation:
I have an old desktop, not eons old (Like a friggin' C64) But still old enough for me to justify calling it a dinosaur. It has poor system specs (I don't know what they are, My parents built it for me out of mostly spare parts :p)
It had a copy of Windows XP Professional SP2 running on it, but for a still undetermined reason it crashed.
Well, Now I'm trying to install Ubuntu, And I could care less about Windows, I'm going to uninstall in as soon as I get a new OS set up on it. So unless it's strictly temporary I won't need to partition it right?
The problem starts when I try to run the installer, The ISO Burned just fine, and It loaded from the CD-ROM drive. Once it loads and gives you the options (Live-CD tryout, Install, Memory Test, Etc) Both 'Install Ubuntu' and 'Try Ubuntu without changing your computer' freeze up for a sec, (Which I can onyy assume to be my slow computer struggling to load Ubuntu) and then goes to the Splash/Loading screen. I don't know what to call it.
After Watching the Orange dot go from side to side for a while, it starts to load up with Error messages, it's done this consistantly every time I attempt it. Restart after restart.
I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do or can offer advice. I don't have a lot to lose here so any suggestions are helpful :)
P.S. I'm going to go ahead and post this, so as to get my problem public and let some of you try to solve it, but I'll post again in a minute with a sampling of the error messages.
Please and thank you,
-RedSpider
I have an old desktop, not eons old (Like a friggin' C64) But still old enough for me to justify calling it a dinosaur. It has poor system specs (I don't know what they are, My parents built it for me out of mostly spare parts :p)
It had a copy of Windows XP Professional SP2 running on it, but for a still undetermined reason it crashed.
Well, Now I'm trying to install Ubuntu, And I could care less about Windows, I'm going to uninstall in as soon as I get a new OS set up on it. So unless it's strictly temporary I won't need to partition it right?
The problem starts when I try to run the installer, The ISO Burned just fine, and It loaded from the CD-ROM drive. Once it loads and gives you the options (Live-CD tryout, Install, Memory Test, Etc) Both 'Install Ubuntu' and 'Try Ubuntu without changing your computer' freeze up for a sec, (Which I can onyy assume to be my slow computer struggling to load Ubuntu) and then goes to the Splash/Loading screen. I don't know what to call it.
After Watching the Orange dot go from side to side for a while, it starts to load up with Error messages, it's done this consistantly every time I attempt it. Restart after restart.
I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do or can offer advice. I don't have a lot to lose here so any suggestions are helpful :)
P.S. I'm going to go ahead and post this, so as to get my problem public and let some of you try to solve it, but I'll post again in a minute with a sampling of the error messages.
Please and thank you,
-RedSpider