TTrussell
August 25th, 2008, 02:14 AM
Hello all,
I've been having a hell of a time installing Windows XP on my computer--every time I install it, it gets to the loading screen and reboots. Blast! Anyway, I don't need computer games during school, so I am going to install Linux on my computer.
I have used Ubuntu several times before (since the initial release of Gutsy Gibbon), so I know pretty well how everything works. My only problem is, on this computer, when I click "Install" the loading bar just hangs forever and NOTHING happens... the loading bar scrolls back and forth and back and forth, sometimes getting so slow you can actually see little blocks appear to give the appearance of moving.
Anyway, I was wondering what this could be. Bad CD drive? I really doubt it, but I guess it's a possibility (I just bought the damn thing). Hard Drives seem to work fine, as well (my main hard-drive a SATA 320GB I just recently bought as well).
Anyway, I'm just seeing the Ubuntu logo with the yellow back-and-forth loading bar and would like to actually get Ubuntu installed onto my system if that's possible.
Thanks!
(I've let it sit for like 10 minutes I guess I'll go take a shower and see if anything else happens).
I've been having a hell of a time installing Windows XP on my computer--every time I install it, it gets to the loading screen and reboots. Blast! Anyway, I don't need computer games during school, so I am going to install Linux on my computer.
I have used Ubuntu several times before (since the initial release of Gutsy Gibbon), so I know pretty well how everything works. My only problem is, on this computer, when I click "Install" the loading bar just hangs forever and NOTHING happens... the loading bar scrolls back and forth and back and forth, sometimes getting so slow you can actually see little blocks appear to give the appearance of moving.
Anyway, I was wondering what this could be. Bad CD drive? I really doubt it, but I guess it's a possibility (I just bought the damn thing). Hard Drives seem to work fine, as well (my main hard-drive a SATA 320GB I just recently bought as well).
Anyway, I'm just seeing the Ubuntu logo with the yellow back-and-forth loading bar and would like to actually get Ubuntu installed onto my system if that's possible.
Thanks!
(I've let it sit for like 10 minutes I guess I'll go take a shower and see if anything else happens).