I am a complete beginner to Linux. I have a 7 year old Dell laptop - 32 bit with 1 Gig RAM currently with no operating system (its a long story). I tried to install ubuntu (32 bit version) 14.04.1 LTS from a CD (I downloaded from ubuntu).
I get the following messages:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: run-init Not tainted 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu
Hardware name: Dell Inc. MXC061 /OMG532, BIOS A10 04/02/2007
00000000 00000000 f585ff34 c1650cd3 (and similar for three lines total - let me know if you need all the numbers)
Call Trace:
[<c1650cd3>] dump_stack+0x41/0x52
[<c164be0c>] panic+0x87/0x181
[<c105911f>] do_exit+0x8ef/0x8f0
[<c117943c>] ? vfs_write+0x13c/0x1b0
[<c1059156>] Sys_exit+0x16/0x20
[<c1657da7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching back to text console
Now none of that means much to me, so I am hoping someone could help me with my next step. Incidentally, I tried loading Linux Lite on the same machine with similar results. I was able to load Lite on another laptop using the same CD so I don't think its a download/writing issue.
Thanks very much in advance.
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