Install 9.04, update disk

[Matt Harrison]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Matthew A Coulliette <matthewdistro at cox.net
> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Although I am not a programmer or a computer administrator, I am
> familiar with Linux and Ubuntu.  I am currently running Ubuntu on 3 of
> my computers.
>
> Right now, I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.04 on another computer and it
> is giving me a lot of trouble.  The computer boots from the install
> cdrom like normal.  Then, I select install and it will start the process
> and then it will hang on me.  I have tried installing Debian; with
> Debian it did almost the whole install and then hung when it tried to
> install the graphics driver.
>
> The computer has a Quadro FX 3000 graphics card.  I believe that this is
> the cause of my problems.  On the hello screen that is loaded from the
> installation disk there is a F4 option: "Use driver update disk".  How
> do I make this disk for my graphics card and how do I use it for the
> installation process?
>
> Thanks in advance for your replies. - MatthewMPP
>
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Have you tried to hit F4 and select Graphics Safe Mode to install and then
let the driver install once the system is installed?  This is what I have to
do on my machine.  Might not apply but I thought I would at least let you
know.

HTH

-Matt
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