installation on celeron400/intel-i440BX laptop

[Luigi Ponti]

Thank you Andrew,

It actually worked!
However, now in gnome there is no sound (sound control says there is no 
device to control) and the OS freezes every now and then while loading 
applications.
Any hints very welcome,

Luigi



Andrew Zajac wrote:

>
>
> On 3/27/06, *Luigi Ponti* <luigiponti at comcast.net 
> <mailto: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.
>  
>  
>  
> azz
>