sleepingdogg
March 11th, 2010, 03:37 PM
Hello. I seem to be having the exact same problem described by some others when installing 9.10.
I burned the ISO on a CD 3 different times using ISORecorderV3 as described
in the "BurningIsoHowto" section of the "ubuntu.com" site. I followed the
instructions and when I load the CD and reboot my PC, I select the language
and then the "Install Ubuntu" option, but I can only seem to get to an
orange screen before everything stalls and goes no further. I even tried
the "alternate text-based installer" as recommended in this thread but it
did not help. I tried the F4 "Safe Graphics Mode" option but that did not
help. Same orange screen with a pointer that, sometimes, doesn't move when
I use the mouse. Everything just stays stuck on that screen. I just
finished trying the F6 options but nothing worked there either. Out of the
40+ attempts to install Ubuntu 9.10, I have had exactly 3 times where I
actually reached the "Welcome" screen. This happens after waiting at least
30 minutes or so. The buttons at the bottom of the screen are "Quit",
"Back", and "Forward". Problem is, all buttons are greyed out except
"Quit". When I attempt to press this button nothing happens. I seem to
have the proper specs on my old PC:
Dell Dimension XPS T500
BIOS Version - A07
Processor Type - Pentium (R) III
Processor Speed - 500 MHz
Cache RAM - 512 KB
System Memory - 128 MB
Memory Bank 0 - 128 MB SDRAM
Video Card - 8MB ATI XPERT 98D 3D AGP Graphics Card
Hard Drive - Western Digital 80 GB (WD800JB)
CD ROM Drive - ATAPI 8X DVD ROM
After about 5 minutes of the "pulsating" ubuntu logo on a black background,
and with my CD Rom Drive sounding like it is having an asthma attack (seems
to rev up and down during the entire 5 minutes), lines of text show on the
screen and multiple lines say, "Buffer I/O error on sr0, logical block
353416/353417". I don't know what this means for installation purposes.
Does anyone have any idea how I can install Ubuntu 9.10 on my PC? I should
probably mention that the HD is 80 GB and currently has nothing on it. I
formatted it for NTFS through Windows XP. Any help would be greatly
appreciated as I am to the point of abandonment of my Linux dream at this
point. I spent WAY too much time trying to do what I thought would be a
simple install and I'm ready to move on to something more user friendly at
this point. Thanks in advance.
I burned the ISO on a CD 3 different times using ISORecorderV3 as described
in the "BurningIsoHowto" section of the "ubuntu.com" site. I followed the
instructions and when I load the CD and reboot my PC, I select the language
and then the "Install Ubuntu" option, but I can only seem to get to an
orange screen before everything stalls and goes no further. I even tried
the "alternate text-based installer" as recommended in this thread but it
did not help. I tried the F4 "Safe Graphics Mode" option but that did not
help. Same orange screen with a pointer that, sometimes, doesn't move when
I use the mouse. Everything just stays stuck on that screen. I just
finished trying the F6 options but nothing worked there either. Out of the
40+ attempts to install Ubuntu 9.10, I have had exactly 3 times where I
actually reached the "Welcome" screen. This happens after waiting at least
30 minutes or so. The buttons at the bottom of the screen are "Quit",
"Back", and "Forward". Problem is, all buttons are greyed out except
"Quit". When I attempt to press this button nothing happens. I seem to
have the proper specs on my old PC:
Dell Dimension XPS T500
BIOS Version - A07
Processor Type - Pentium (R) III
Processor Speed - 500 MHz
Cache RAM - 512 KB
System Memory - 128 MB
Memory Bank 0 - 128 MB SDRAM
Video Card - 8MB ATI XPERT 98D 3D AGP Graphics Card
Hard Drive - Western Digital 80 GB (WD800JB)
CD ROM Drive - ATAPI 8X DVD ROM
After about 5 minutes of the "pulsating" ubuntu logo on a black background,
and with my CD Rom Drive sounding like it is having an asthma attack (seems
to rev up and down during the entire 5 minutes), lines of text show on the
screen and multiple lines say, "Buffer I/O error on sr0, logical block
353416/353417". I don't know what this means for installation purposes.
Does anyone have any idea how I can install Ubuntu 9.10 on my PC? I should
probably mention that the HD is 80 GB and currently has nothing on it. I
formatted it for NTFS through Windows XP. Any help would be greatly
appreciated as I am to the point of abandonment of my Linux dream at this
point. I spent WAY too much time trying to do what I thought would be a
simple install and I'm ready to move on to something more user friendly at
this point. Thanks in advance.