DGZDGZ
November 2nd, 2008, 06:00 PM
having installed Xbuntu on an old laptop and liking it, i decieded to remove XP from my desktop and replace it with xbuntu.
I've formatted the hard drive, then booted the an 8.10 ubuntu cd, which worked fine in 'live cd' mode. The install then starts fine, but sticks at 'copying files @ 23%). after running the 'check disc' function and trying again, i decieded to try the Xbuntu disc that i used to successfuly install on my laptop- only excatly the same thing happened. I then tried to a different distro (pclinux i think) to see if it was ubuntu, but it crashed out during install too :confused::confused:
This leads me to think that my desktop is incompatable with linux. I'm not too sure how to check the motherboard manufacturer, but although it old the computer ran XP no problem.
can anyone shine any light on this problem.
thanks in advance.
I've formatted the hard drive, then booted the an 8.10 ubuntu cd, which worked fine in 'live cd' mode. The install then starts fine, but sticks at 'copying files @ 23%). after running the 'check disc' function and trying again, i decieded to try the Xbuntu disc that i used to successfuly install on my laptop- only excatly the same thing happened. I then tried to a different distro (pclinux i think) to see if it was ubuntu, but it crashed out during install too :confused::confused:
This leads me to think that my desktop is incompatable with linux. I'm not too sure how to check the motherboard manufacturer, but although it old the computer ran XP no problem.
can anyone shine any light on this problem.
thanks in advance.