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quietas
April 24th, 2008, 04:58 PM
Hey folks, I've got a new Dell Optiplex 320 here at work. Decent specs, great for Ubuntu actually. Anyway I'm trying to install Hardy desktop on it, but both the RC and release version hang at a blank screen with a white cursor in the upper left.

Any ideas?

Peter09
April 24th, 2008, 06:03 PM
Try booting into safe mode and typing startx at the terminal prompt.

What graphics card have you got?

PC

thethimble
April 26th, 2008, 09:39 PM
I believe I'm having a similar problem here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769268).

Ilan
April 26th, 2008, 11:19 PM
I join the club... tried all the menu options, managed to do an installation in safe mode but it is unusable (messy screen, blurred text). Tried new installation under detailed mode it freezes after
(hd0,0)
filesystem type is ft, partition type 0xdc
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2a00, size=0x1ce278]
[Linux-initrd @ 0x17863000, 0x77c500 bytes]

at this point the machine goes into deep freeze

Elycian
April 26th, 2008, 11:50 PM
I'm having the exact same problem, in fact I had the exact same problem with 7.10 back in October.. If you can find a solution or if anyone can post a solution I'd be pretttyyy happy :] lol

zgoda
April 28th, 2008, 01:21 PM
I'll try with LILO as boot loader, this might help (in fact, this helped me to boot Debian Etch on this crap). Anyway, I'm gonna definitely replace my old 7.04 with something bit newer, be it Ubuntu 8.04 or Fedora 9. I know OpenSuSE 10.3 installs and boots on Optiplex 320, but it's crap.

Peter09
April 28th, 2008, 02:57 PM
might be worth a try with the alternate CD, thats a non-graphical installer.

PC

zgoda
April 28th, 2008, 04:05 PM
Alternate install runs bit faster, but to be able to replace bootloader you'd have to use livecd anyway.

quietas
April 30th, 2008, 08:55 PM
From what I can tell this is a limitation of the Optiplex 320. If you do a search, you'll come up with lots dealing with v6, 7 and now 8 of Ubuntu. It's a poor design from Dell. Great for Windows, bad for Linux. Lilo and Grub2 work, but not Grub 1.

Rocky37
May 1st, 2008, 05:33 AM
From what I can tell this is a limitation of the Optiplex 320. If you do a search, you'll come up with lots dealing with v6, 7 and now 8 of Ubuntu. It's a poor design from Dell. Great for Windows, bad for Linux. Lilo and Grub2 work, but not Grub 1.

Strange. I have the same problem on my desktop - and it's not even a Dell. :lolflag: