Robert the Kat
February 25th, 2011, 02:51 AM
Hi,
A friend gave me an old desktop with an old version of windows. I was interested in "checking out" Ubuntu server. It installed without any problem. I added a desktop just to see how it worked. I know that is not something for a server, just messing around. Next I wanted to checkout Ubuntu desktop. I rebooted with the CD in the drive and it started to run. The pick your language screen appeared. Next was the option on what to install. I picked to install the desktop. I did not care if the server was overwritten. The word "Ubuntu" was in the center of a black screen with five dots under it. They would change from white to red to show something was taking place. The only problem was after about 5 minutes the CD drive would stop as if the computer was locked up. After removing the CD from the drive and rebooting the computer went back to loading the server version and the small desktop.
I guess the question would be: Does the Desktop version require a newer computer than what the server versions needs? Is that why I can not get it to install the desktop version (10.10)?
Would the removal of the server version with a drive format (if I can find a format program) fix the problem?
Any ideas? Thanks
RK
A friend gave me an old desktop with an old version of windows. I was interested in "checking out" Ubuntu server. It installed without any problem. I added a desktop just to see how it worked. I know that is not something for a server, just messing around. Next I wanted to checkout Ubuntu desktop. I rebooted with the CD in the drive and it started to run. The pick your language screen appeared. Next was the option on what to install. I picked to install the desktop. I did not care if the server was overwritten. The word "Ubuntu" was in the center of a black screen with five dots under it. They would change from white to red to show something was taking place. The only problem was after about 5 minutes the CD drive would stop as if the computer was locked up. After removing the CD from the drive and rebooting the computer went back to loading the server version and the small desktop.
I guess the question would be: Does the Desktop version require a newer computer than what the server versions needs? Is that why I can not get it to install the desktop version (10.10)?
Would the removal of the server version with a drive format (if I can find a format program) fix the problem?
Any ideas? Thanks
RK