[CoLoCo] FW: Ubuntu help

Sun Jan 13 16:40:56 GMT 2008

Les I am sorry to hear you are having so much troubles. One more thing you might want to try is maybe downloading the Xubuntu alternate CD to see if that helps at all.

In the meantime I will will try to find some answers out on the web for your PCMCA/PCMCIA problems

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From: Mitch Mahan <mitch at kci.net>
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:51:39 AM
Subject: [CoLoCo] FW:  Ubuntu help

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Thanks but I am about to give up.  The Alternative Disc
did not work.  The Xubuntu program was exciting as it started loading and
went all the way through step 5 and then after a long time, an hour or more, it
totally locked up.  We have tried both the standard install and the
Install in a safe graphics mode with identical results.  At step 5 we have
tried the "erase disc..." option and the "use the longest
continuous..." option, both with the same results at the end of step 5. 

We did notice on the list of what it is loading that there
is no "o.k" for the line item "Start PCMCA System". 
All other line items say o.k.  

One of the F keys told us that if we are having trouble with
stalling out we should boot: live vga = 771 noapic nolapic.  When we
did we saw screens full of info that were loading but stated that PCMCA was not
available.  Then when we went through the loading process again we reached
step 5 and it partitioned twice but still locked up the second time of
partitioning. 

We have checked the disc we downloaded for errors and
everything seems o.k.  

We have a Pentium III processor so we think we have enough
room for the regular Ubuntu, the Alternative Disc Ubuntu, and especially the
Xubuntu.

Any help you can give us will be appreciated.  We will
gladly pay for some assistance so we can get this project finished and get the
computers to some students that have no computers in Sierra Leone.  Check
out http://members.aol.com/salonesix/
to see what we are doing.

Thanks again for helping out.

Les Law

2008/1/10 simon engelbert <simonengelbert at yahoo.com>:

I
had a similar problem with one of my fairly old machines. I had no luck with
the Live CD and not much more success with the Alternate CD. If I remember
correctly the issue was that my machine either did not have enough RAM or
barely met the requirements to install Ubuntu. I ended up downloading the
Xubuntu distro (which requires less RAM, 64 MB if I remember correctly) and
that loaded up just fine on the machine. 

So like Mitch says I would try the Alternate Installation CD first and if that
doesn't work you could try the Xubuntu distro

-Simon

----- Original Message ----

From: Mitch Mahan <mitch at kci.net>

To: Les Law <hopeles2 at gmail.com
>

Cc: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>

Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:32:03 PM

Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Ubuntu help 

Your
best bet is to download/retireve the 'Alternate Installation CD'.

This
Installation method is all text-based and much more compatible / efficient than
the GUI counterpart. 

I
believe this will solve your problems but I am forwarding this on to the entire
Colorado Team in case anyone has some different ideas. 

-
Mitch

From: Les Law [mailto: hopeles2 at gmail.com] 

Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:27 PM

To: mitch at kci.net

Subject: Ubuntu help

Greetings and Hello.

I need help loading Ubuntu.  We were given 30 computers to ship to and
use in Sierra Leone West Africa.  As part of the donation we were required
to delete the operating system due to a licensing agreement.  The
computers are Dell and were originally loaded with Windows 95 and later
upgraded to Windows 98.  The computers are "clean". 

I have 3 discs, one that I have downloaded, one that I purchased on Amazon.com, and one from a
"Ubuntu for Dummies" book.  The downloaded disc and the Dummies
disc seem to partially work while the purchased disc does nothing. 
Everything seems to work well, except for waiting a long time, up to
where I see the "examples" and "install" icons. 
I can get a drop down menu off the "install" icon and can click on
"Open".  Then nothing happens except a lot of whirring,
clicking, and blinking. 

I need to get these computers loaded, packed, and shipped to Sierra Leone by
mid February.  We have a Work Team going in July, part of whom will be
setting up a computer lab at a school in Makeni, in a remote area of Northern
Sierra Leone . 

Ideas, comments, questions, please.  Phone number at home is 303 642
3693 and cell is 303 921 1495, or course e-mail response.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Les Law

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