LiveCD won't run on my Toshiba notebook

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/10/2014 06:50 PM, Peter Smout wrote:
> On 11/08/14 00:34, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> On 08/10/2014 05:40 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On 11 August 2014 00:03, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> I was planning on using it to test a distribution upgrade to 14.04 so I
>>>> decided to reinstall 13.10 and then do the upgrade, but the liveCD I
>>>> used to
>>>> originally install Ubuntu will not run.
>>>
>>>
>>> There is no point installing 13.10 now. It is no longer supported.
>>>
>>> Burn a fresh copy of 14.04 and go straight to that.
>>>
>>
>> The only reason I was wanting to reinstall 13.10 is to see how an in
>> place upgrade to 14.04 would work.  My main machine has 12.04 on it and
>> I am trying to decide if I want to upgrade or fresh install.
>>
>> If need be I will try an install of 14.04 directly.  However I have my
>> doubts that it will work, as the CD that I used to originally install
>> 13.10 no longer will work.
>>
>> Regards,  Jim
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> Don't know if this is related, but I had a similar issue on a friend's
> laptop (very old Toshiba laptop) and that could not handle a kernel with
> PAE (physical address extension) so we ended up with a lubuntu
> derivative  whose name escapes me ATM ;), based on Ubuntu 12.04 it is
> likely to be the last time that laptop can be upgraded as most new
> versions have PAE by default ;(
>
> As I said, don't know if it relates to your troubles, I'm just putting
> it out a a theory!
>
> Good luck
>
> Pete S


Hi Pete,

This laptop is less than 2 years old and the CD I am using is the same 
one I used to install 13.10 on it originally. I remember I had a hard 
time installing Ubuntu on this machine along side Win8.  I can't 
remember if the LiveCD not working was part of my problem or not, have 
to go back and look at any info I saved at the time.

Thanks,  Jim