Cannot install ubuntu on Dell machine

[Tuan Anh]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:41:55 -0600, Carlos Escutia Chávez
<carlosescutia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. On the grub boot screen, press "e" so you can edit boot parameters
> 2. At the end of the 'kernel ..." line, add "noapic, nolapic"
> 3. When you had logged in, edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add
> "noapic, nolapic" in your kernel line(s).
> 4. Enjoy :)

I did that, and the system still hang at Setting The System Clock ...."
However, using Ctrl+C I can get over it.
But the system freeze again after I hit Enter in the Welcome to Base
System Configuration screen.

Does anyone know how to fix? Please help!!!

Many thanks in advance!
Tuan-Anh


> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:00:53 +0800, Tuan Anh <regnever.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm installing ubuntu 4.1 on a dell box. At the first boot after the
> > installation the sequence freeze when "Setting the System Clock using
> > the Hardware Clock as reference".
> >
> > Anyone has this problem before?