Lucid instal probs (more) corrrection

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Grizzly <Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Well  now I've got all four .ISO's (Beta1 & Alt,  Beta2 & Alt) and still no joy
>
>
> getting it to install,
>
> Beta 1 installed but hung on the logo screen with five (static) red dots
> Beta 1 Alt Upgrade took 9+ hours and hung during the process
> Beta 2 Menu cycles thru the 5 second count down  no matter what menu option you
> choose
> Beta 2 Alt Upgrade took 8+ hours and gave an orange screen (I think it re-
> booted but not sure, done over night)
> Beta 2 Alt Upgrade took 6 ish hours but I sat and watched every dam minute, it
> then returned a "Sorry your upgrade failed" after the timer had passed no time
> left,  It was prosessing one of the Pyhton Triggers  just before the message
>
> My systen is not cutting edge so hardware should not be a prob
>
> AMD Athlon 2600XP
> 1gb Ram (2x512 PC2700)
> nVidia MX440
>
> 9.10 worked but would not install to my External USB Partition, it wanted to
> (and did) over write my existing data partition
>

It seems that you tried to upgrade over a previous install. Perhaps,
if there's hd space available, you could try a fresh install.

I just fresh installed Beta on a HD similar to yours and it is working
very well.

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