Install Ubuntu Warti on a Dell Inspiron 8000

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Sep 27 22:10:51 UTC 2004


On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:47:12PM +0200, Eric SCHAEFFER wrote:

> First step install:
> It freezes. I must add "noapic nolapic" options to the standard boot.

This may be fixed in the new kernel which, corrects a number of apic-related
issues.  I have a system where USB wouldn't work properly without noapic,
which works with no options now.  Please let us know if you still have this
problem with the new kernel after upgrading your system.

mizar:[~] dpkg -l linux-image-`uname -r`
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  linux-image-2. 2.6.8.1-9      Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8.1 on 38

                   ^^^^^^^^^

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 - mdz




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