installation on celeron400/intel-i440BX laptop

[Andrew Zajac]

On 3/27/06, Luigi Ponti <luigiponti at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have tried to install Ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop provided with a Celeron
> 400 processor, an Intel i-440BX chipset, 150 Mb RAM memory, and a 5 Gb
> IBM travelstar hard disk.
>
> The default installation seems to work fine until the very end when it
> tries to load GNOME. At this stage, there is a speeding wheel on a
> yellow screen that stops moving and nothing more happens.
>
> However when installing just the server version, it does works: I am
> able to login and run applications.
>
> Is there a known fix to this? Is there a way to get the desktop GUI in
> place?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Luigi
>
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Once you log in to your base (server) install run

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

then see if the rest of the install goes smoothly.



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