Qimo

laptop shuts down during install

Asked by Dale Bailey

I have a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop. 1.6ghz single core processor with 1 Gb ram, and 80Gb HDD. I have Windows XP pro installed, which works perfectly albeit slow. When I run the live cd, Qimo appears to work fine. I tried to install from the cd, but the laptop shuts down during install. I used unetbootin to make a usb install. This did the same thing. It goes through all of the questions, then gets to somewhere around 37-39% of copying files for install, and shuts down. I've reformatted the partition numerous times and started over again, to receive the same results.
I have used several programs to test the HDD and the Ram, they passed all tests. I have seperated the partitions into one for xp, and another for qimo with a linux swap partition. I just cannot get it to install. Please help me.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Dale Bailey (bailey-dale) said : 		#2

Wow... maybe I shouldn't even bother trying to use this OS, since I can't even get any help.

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Michelle Hall (michelleq) said : 		#3

Dale - I'm sorry my husband hasn't gotten a chance to answer your question. This OS is developed by him, and maintained by him as best he can. He also works full time, is a full time student, and we have a family... sometimes things have to sit on the back burner.

As for installation? My first suggestion would be to try installing from a different CD, in case the burn is bad, or perhaps swapping out the memory, to see if you've got some bad memory.

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Christopher Keener (keenerchristopher) said : 		#4

If you're using the new HP's (i.e HP Pavillion 620), I had the same problem
dual booting. The only thing that worked for me was Installing the OS on the
entire disc and then re-installing Windows and then using the LiveCd to
restore the GRUB. May work for you if you're dual-booting. Also, i had a
similar event happen on another laptop, but different distro (Lubuntu on
Dell Mini 10), and the install failed each time when i tried to encrypt the
disc during installation. What worked was not encrypting the disc during
install and doing afterwards

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Dale Bailey <
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> Question #144900 on Qimo changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/qimo/+question/144900
>
> Status: Expired => Open
>
> Dale Bailey is still having a problem:
> Wow... maybe I shouldn't even bother trying to use this OS, since I
> can't even get any help.
>
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