installation

[Wim Wolters]

Thank you very much for your suggestion!	


> Van: albi <albi at scii.nl>
> Aan: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: installation
> BCC: 

> On Mon,  2 Jan 2006 15:49:34 +0000 (GMT)
> "Wim Wolters" <wjw38 at lycos.nl> wrote:
> 
> > An old system of mine:
> > Asus CUV4x
> > Celeron 533
> > 544 MB
> > Award Bios (Plug and Play disabled)
> > 2 hdd: 4.3 GB (master) and 20.4 GB (slave)
> > Windows 98
> > slave for Linux
> > working bootloader for Windows and (Ku)buntu
> > 
> > As a newer than new newbie in the field of Linux, I tried Ubuntu and
> > then Kubuntu, read a few things and tried several times, but in vain.
> > Then someone with some knowledge of Linux helped me. All in vain
> > again. At 73% the xserver always hangs. Could you tell me please
> > what's the matter? Btw a checksum test was OK.
> 
> if you use the breezy-release cdrom then you can type in the command
> "memtest" (without "") at the command-prompt (iirc), but it could also
> be that the disc has bad blocks
> 
> if you use some live-cd (like ubuntu-live or knoppix etc.) then you can
> run the command "badblocks /dev/hdb" (without "") in a terminal
> 
> starting the install with the parameters noapic nolapic is also an idea
> (see install-help with F2,F3,F4 etc.)
> 
> (btw, with a machine like that i suggest you also try the
> xubuntu-desktop, that might give smoother performance)
> 
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