celub
November 1st, 2010, 10:06 PM
Hi all thanks for viewing my post. Hope you might be able to help.
Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop
1GB RAM
1Ghz processor
Have Oracle Enterprise Linux installed (basically red hat). I resized this to make room for a new partition for Xubuntu on hard drive. Want to have a dual boot.
Tried earlier today with ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso and gave up as my laptop must be too slow as this just crawled along. After 4 long hours decided to look at Xubuntu.
Downloaded xubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso and created disc.
Booted from cd ok.
Chose Expert Mode under options F6 so I could see more of what happened.
Got to stage 'Partition Disks' and it just gets stuck. As if the laptop hangs after less than a minute and the CD stops going round.
Left this for 30 minutes and still no go. Tried 6 times and the same each time exactly.
So install stuck at:
'Starting up the partitioner'
47%
Scanning Disks...
I have installed unix and linux a fair few times but not able to see what is wrong here.
Any ideas really appreciated.
Have tried F6 options at start with no apci etc and no difference.
Cheers Cel
Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop
1GB RAM
1Ghz processor
Have Oracle Enterprise Linux installed (basically red hat). I resized this to make room for a new partition for Xubuntu on hard drive. Want to have a dual boot.
Tried earlier today with ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso and gave up as my laptop must be too slow as this just crawled along. After 4 long hours decided to look at Xubuntu.
Downloaded xubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso and created disc.
Booted from cd ok.
Chose Expert Mode under options F6 so I could see more of what happened.
Got to stage 'Partition Disks' and it just gets stuck. As if the laptop hangs after less than a minute and the CD stops going round.
Left this for 30 minutes and still no go. Tried 6 times and the same each time exactly.
So install stuck at:
'Starting up the partitioner'
47%
Scanning Disks...
I have installed unix and linux a fair few times but not able to see what is wrong here.
Any ideas really appreciated.
Have tried F6 options at start with no apci etc and no difference.
Cheers Cel