On Apr 2, 2013 5:32 AM, "Basil Chupin" <<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote: > Then read the 'Read the full installation instructions' and any conscientious and eager novice will then read the part at the end which states, "More technical detailed technical are available on the Ubuntu wiki" and this will take one to- > > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/index.html">https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/index.html</a> > > And what is stated there? > > [pruned] > > > BC What's most odd to me about this, is that clearly it works for the vast majority. Why is your automatic assumption that it is not the hardware, or configuration, but "something is wrong with Ubuntu." rather than something a little more reasonable like "something is wrong with trying to install Ubuntu on this machine" and trying to figure out why that is? Have you gone through what's in dmesg's output? As an aside, If you don't like Ubuntu, or just a part of it, there are other good options out there. For example, while I persinally can't stand the Unity interface, a lot of people do seem to like it. UbuntuStudio is thus my primary platform. It gives me a lot of software I would normally have to install later, lacks Unity, etc. I'm sure you don't mean to, but you come across slightly miffed or something. Scott