janabana
May 4th, 2011, 01:18 AM
Hello,
I am not new to ubuntu -have for severall years a flawless ubuntu system- but I have to admit that I do not know very much about it. :)
No I have been on the road for some months and felt the need to buy a small notebook. I assumed it would be possible to put on ubuntu, to go back to this amazing system. I love it.
It is a strange Peruvian brand and I can not seem to get ubuntu installed:( I feel so naive of thinking it would work.
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brand is advance http://www.advanceperu.com series FT4006R
Intel Mobile ATOM N455 processor
harddisk 320 Gb
RAM 2 GB DDR3
It came with windows 7 in Spanish. I am running that now.
There is no disc drive so I have made a usb pendrive KINGSTON8Gb according to the ubuntu website.
I installed ubuntu 11.04 on it.
It is the first time I have tried this pendrive method. But everything seemed to work well to make the pendrive, using the Universal USB Installer (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer.exe)
The problem is it does not want to boot! I have adjusted the BIOS setting, and I tried to work with some of the alternative methods mentioned here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
The PLoP boot manager gives errors as well.
Manually I did not try because the tutorial does not seem to open..
It is always this windows seven that opens, not my beloved ubuntu installation!
Could it be this shady brand of laptops, what was I thinking :P Or could I be doing something else seriously wrong since I am not that into ubuntu installing and I have never used a pendrive before.
Will I be stuck with windows or should I try to bring this notebook back...
After googling I found an old topic of a mailinglist, in Spanish, sorry..
http://old.nabble.com/Urgente,-Advance-U40SII,-no-levanta-td19590820.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-pe/2008-September/001202.html
I would appreciate it if someone could give me some ideas about what to do.
Thanks a lot for reading my troubles!
janabana
I am not new to ubuntu -have for severall years a flawless ubuntu system- but I have to admit that I do not know very much about it. :)
No I have been on the road for some months and felt the need to buy a small notebook. I assumed it would be possible to put on ubuntu, to go back to this amazing system. I love it.
It is a strange Peruvian brand and I can not seem to get ubuntu installed:( I feel so naive of thinking it would work.
details>
brand is advance http://www.advanceperu.com series FT4006R
Intel Mobile ATOM N455 processor
harddisk 320 Gb
RAM 2 GB DDR3
It came with windows 7 in Spanish. I am running that now.
There is no disc drive so I have made a usb pendrive KINGSTON8Gb according to the ubuntu website.
I installed ubuntu 11.04 on it.
It is the first time I have tried this pendrive method. But everything seemed to work well to make the pendrive, using the Universal USB Installer (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer.exe)
The problem is it does not want to boot! I have adjusted the BIOS setting, and I tried to work with some of the alternative methods mentioned here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
The PLoP boot manager gives errors as well.
Manually I did not try because the tutorial does not seem to open..
It is always this windows seven that opens, not my beloved ubuntu installation!
Could it be this shady brand of laptops, what was I thinking :P Or could I be doing something else seriously wrong since I am not that into ubuntu installing and I have never used a pendrive before.
Will I be stuck with windows or should I try to bring this notebook back...
After googling I found an old topic of a mailinglist, in Spanish, sorry..
http://old.nabble.com/Urgente,-Advance-U40SII,-no-levanta-td19590820.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-pe/2008-September/001202.html
I would appreciate it if someone could give me some ideas about what to do.
Thanks a lot for reading my troubles!
janabana