Ubuntu install on laptop failed repeatedly

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2004, 23:10 -0500 schrieb Ben Kuang:
> The base install went fine on three of the failed 
> attempts.  

> Since the install on the desktop went fine, and my desktop is slower 
> than my laptop, i dont see why installing a pkg on my laptop could take 
> longer than 8mins.  thank you very much:)

this page indicates that you may need the pci=noacpi bootoption on many
dell laptops (and sice the problems occures after first boot, this
probably also applys to you):
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops

also did you check the CD ? there is an option for that in the boot
menu, just in case your desktop cdrom has a better error correction for
bad tracks :) 

ciao
	oli

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