RickHatalski
October 22nd, 2010, 02:15 PM
I am a newbe to UBUNTU trying to install for the first time: Downloaded ver 10.10 from the web site for my Toshiba A135 Laptop Intel Celron m cpu 520@1.60 Ghz
32 bit Vista Operiting System with 1.6 g Ram and 73GB Hard Drive. I have tried many options and downloads after the last week. Found out I was doing a few things wrong.
My latest was to download the ubuntu notebook ver 10.10 to my desktop. I then used the USB installer to make a bootable version on my 4 GB USB Drive. As per the instructions I restarted the lap top and stoped the bios with F12 to get to the boot page of the bios. I changed the boot from my windows hard drive to go to my USB drive E: and booted my USB Drive. It starts going through all the commands on the boot sequence just fine until it gets to 4.308190 [DRM] initialzed drm 1.1 20060810 and just hangs with the light om my jump drive gong from bright to dim over and over. After a long wait I give up and press the return key. It starts up for a few more lines of commands and hangs again at line 4.753839 ata 4.00 atapi:dvd ram and again after a long wait I enter the return key .It restarts and again installs several command lines and hangs again at line 10.057082 ata2 sata link down, and again after a long wait I again enter the return key...But this time it fails to take off again and just sits there with a blinking curser and the jump drive light continues to blink bright to dim. So I have to turn the lap top off using the power switch to recover. Does anyone know by the information I stated what the installer was trying to do at the various stop/ failure points? I am not savey enough with linux and can't figure out what the codes on the
installer are trying to indicate when the line items hang during the install.
I also wonder if previous failed install attempts have bad software left over om my computer. For instance in my windows vista start up it asks if I want to start up windows or ubuntu? Left over when I was trying to boot from a cd disk instead of the USB jump drive. Don't know how to remove it from my start up file.
Thanks in advance for reading my long post.
Rick Hatalski
32 bit Vista Operiting System with 1.6 g Ram and 73GB Hard Drive. I have tried many options and downloads after the last week. Found out I was doing a few things wrong.
My latest was to download the ubuntu notebook ver 10.10 to my desktop. I then used the USB installer to make a bootable version on my 4 GB USB Drive. As per the instructions I restarted the lap top and stoped the bios with F12 to get to the boot page of the bios. I changed the boot from my windows hard drive to go to my USB drive E: and booted my USB Drive. It starts going through all the commands on the boot sequence just fine until it gets to 4.308190 [DRM] initialzed drm 1.1 20060810 and just hangs with the light om my jump drive gong from bright to dim over and over. After a long wait I give up and press the return key. It starts up for a few more lines of commands and hangs again at line 4.753839 ata 4.00 atapi:dvd ram and again after a long wait I enter the return key .It restarts and again installs several command lines and hangs again at line 10.057082 ata2 sata link down, and again after a long wait I again enter the return key...But this time it fails to take off again and just sits there with a blinking curser and the jump drive light continues to blink bright to dim. So I have to turn the lap top off using the power switch to recover. Does anyone know by the information I stated what the installer was trying to do at the various stop/ failure points? I am not savey enough with linux and can't figure out what the codes on the
installer are trying to indicate when the line items hang during the install.
I also wonder if previous failed install attempts have bad software left over om my computer. For instance in my windows vista start up it asks if I want to start up windows or ubuntu? Left over when I was trying to boot from a cd disk instead of the USB jump drive. Don't know how to remove it from my start up file.
Thanks in advance for reading my long post.
Rick Hatalski