gasaraki
July 11th, 2008, 07:28 PM
Hi all I'm trying to install Xubuntu on a crappy old laptop i was given for the purpose of playing mp3's from a usb hard-drive.
Every time i boot from the live cd downloaded from here http://www.xubuntu.org/get ( 8.04 release) it gets to the main menu anything i try (run Xubuntu, install Xubuntu, check disk) it comes up with an error box saying it can read the boot cd and forces me to reboot.
I know the cd is ok because i tried it with my main machine and it ran fine and got into the desktop environment. I'm also sure the cd drive in the machine is ok because when i run windows on the laptop i can view the cd fine.
any suggestions on what i could to to solve this? I tried to read up on command line extras for the install but it was all a bit over my head.
the laptop is a Dell Latitude CPx / 500 MHz CPU / 256mb RAM / 12 GB HD /
also when i use the install (if i get it to work ) will i be able to fully format the HD and get rid of all the evil dell stuff ?
Thanks G.
Every time i boot from the live cd downloaded from here http://www.xubuntu.org/get ( 8.04 release) it gets to the main menu anything i try (run Xubuntu, install Xubuntu, check disk) it comes up with an error box saying it can read the boot cd and forces me to reboot.
I know the cd is ok because i tried it with my main machine and it ran fine and got into the desktop environment. I'm also sure the cd drive in the machine is ok because when i run windows on the laptop i can view the cd fine.
any suggestions on what i could to to solve this? I tried to read up on command line extras for the install but it was all a bit over my head.
the laptop is a Dell Latitude CPx / 500 MHz CPU / 256mb RAM / 12 GB HD /
also when i use the install (if i get it to work ) will i be able to fully format the HD and get rid of all the evil dell stuff ?
Thanks G.