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vbrana
July 11th, 2008, 08:34 PM
My friend has an Acer Extensa Series 5420/5120 and he wants Ubuntu 8.04 like me. He's having problems though and the only way I can communicate with him is through IMs. He has a disk with Ubuntu on it but it won't install. He really needs help so please, help! http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif


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-Vincent

Pumalite
July 11th, 2008, 08:44 PM
You might need the Alternate CD.

funfunfun22@comcast.net
July 11th, 2008, 08:57 PM
Hi This is vbranas friend. I am not going out to get another cd for 20 bucks. Any other ideas.

Pumalite
July 11th, 2008, 09:02 PM
Ubuntu is free.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

funfunfun22@comcast.net
July 11th, 2008, 09:10 PM
the download takes forever and i already opened and used the $20 cd

gwoodruff
July 11th, 2008, 09:33 PM
What happens when you try to install? Please provide as much detail as possible.

Gary

funfunfun22@comcast.net
July 11th, 2008, 09:43 PM
wELL AFTER THE REBOOT IT GOES TO THE VISTA LOGIN SCREEN NOT LINUX

matt79
July 11th, 2008, 09:45 PM
May I ask where you are getting your disks? I can get 50 for $15. I have never heard of a $20 disk. Unless it is a very :confused: very unique one.

matt79
July 11th, 2008, 09:46 PM
See if bios is set to boot from the CD drive. That is most likely why. It has to boot from the CD drive not the hard drive.

gwoodruff
July 11th, 2008, 09:50 PM
Make your cd drive the first boot device, your hard drive the second. let us know if you have any more trouble.

Gary

WTF_Shelley
July 11th, 2008, 10:18 PM
May I ask where you are getting your disks? I can get 50 for $15. I have never heard of a $20 disk. Unless it is a very :confused: very unique one.
I think he bought the boxed copy thats on sale in bestbuy

cupyblon
July 11th, 2008, 10:35 PM
Have him restart his PC, get the PC to boot from the CD/DVD drive by hitting F11 or F12 ( might be ALT or Delete too), you get the option of booting one time from the DVD/CD drive. But you have to watch the screen for when it sayes "press any key to boot from CD or DVD" or something like that.

Pumalite
July 11th, 2008, 10:41 PM
He's having trouble on reboot

Spaceman9
July 11th, 2008, 10:53 PM
matt79 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=853139&highlight=bestbuy

matt79
July 13th, 2008, 02:41 AM
Thanks for the heads up Spaceman9. I had never heard of that before. I guess I will not be looking for a job at Best Buy:lolflag:. Does anyone know if staples is the same? That is my number one job hope.:)

encryption.egz
July 13th, 2008, 12:09 PM
hey guys, im haveing a lot trouble to install ubuntu 8.04 from alternat CD, i try even with live cd but no. When i try to install from alternate CD, it com a error in console

Jul 13 13:05:27 base--installer: error: exiting on error base-instaler/kernel/failed-install

and when i retry to install again from step base install sytem it come another error
chroot/target dpkg --force--depends--install var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb

can anyone help me plz!!!

Best regards
E.Zeneli

matt79
July 13th, 2008, 04:55 PM
I not really sure but do a disk check to make sure your disk is good.

encryption.egz
July 13th, 2008, 10:59 PM
I not really sure but do a disk check to make sure your disk is good.

i check a disk with HDD SELF TEST and all three tests gone succeeded
TEST 1 (QUICK)
test succeeded
TEST 2 (COMPREHENSIVE)
test succeeded
TEST 3 (S.M.A.R.T)
test succeded

What 2 do man ?!!!
Im at least 48 hours without sleep just to set ubuntu at my notebook.
And if anyone need configuration of my notebook:
HP nx7400
dual core 1.66 Ghz
1 GB ram
80 GB ATA FUJITSU harddisk

matt79
July 14th, 2008, 07:28 PM
Ok well the first thing to do is to get some sleep.
Second, I would check to see if all your computers hardware is working. Like the harddrive. You might want to install another OS to test it out unless you have a different way. Then if you are only putting Ubuntu on the harddrive I would do a full format to make sure that you are starting from scratch.

jimgeiser
July 14th, 2008, 07:28 PM
What do you do if you can not change the BIOS? I have an old IBM NetVista machine. I forgot how I got Ubuntu 7 installed. In the instructions for 8 Hardy Herron it says make a "Smart Boot Manger Floopy" I see that on CD, but can not get it onto the floppy.

matt79
July 21st, 2008, 04:26 AM
I think your computer might be to old if you can not change the bios on it. I do not think it could handle hardy. I have never used a floppy disk to boot a computer. That is I never got it to work....