Ceiling Fan Man
May 26th, 2009, 10:57 AM
I have a friend who wants to get into Linux, so I stopped by his house with an assortment of Ubuntu discs to set up his HP Pavilion a705W. Neither LiveCDs for Intrepid nor Jaunty would start the installation, so I used the Jaunty AlternateCD. This installed just fine. Upon first boot into the OS on his HDD, the progress bar gets to about a fifth of the way and freezes, never moving. Worthy of note: This is the same position the bar would freeze on either of the LiveCDs when trying to start the installation process.
Judging by the part number, a705W, the computer was purchased from a Wal-Mart location. Wal-Mart get's their very own part number, because the computers are built to Wal-Mart specifications. The Motherboard is a no-name, not the MSIs normally (To my knowledge normally, anyway) found in an HP. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it. Also, I have his DXDiag information from Windows should anyone need some more system information to help us out here.
Can Ubuntu be made bootable on his PC? How would I do it?
Thanks in advance.
Note: I don't have full-time access to the computer, so please bear with me.
Judging by the part number, a705W, the computer was purchased from a Wal-Mart location. Wal-Mart get's their very own part number, because the computers are built to Wal-Mart specifications. The Motherboard is a no-name, not the MSIs normally (To my knowledge normally, anyway) found in an HP. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it. Also, I have his DXDiag information from Windows should anyone need some more system information to help us out here.
Can Ubuntu be made bootable on his PC? How would I do it?
Thanks in advance.
Note: I don't have full-time access to the computer, so please bear with me.