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Cant Install Ubuntu

Asked by wahkao1990

Pop CD into CD bay with Windows XP and rebooted it. Shown a Ubuntu screen and chooses to install it. Ubuntu loading bar goes left and right and repeats. After a while, all i see is a while blinking cursor on the top left and a black screen. Waited for a looooong time but nothing goes. Some CD and HD activity but nothing appearing on screen. No sound whatsoever. Isnt it supposed to load into some screen for me to choose how to install ubuntu? as in, what partition to install on or what?

P3 M 700MHz
64mb ram
20gb HDD
dvd-rom
some weird graphics card
IBM thinkpad

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wahkao1990 (wahkao1990) said : 		#1

ok. now the blinking white cursor is gone. all i see now is.... nothing. black-ness. still has HD and CD activity.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#2

Hi !

you said 64mb RAM ? you won't be able to install from the desktopCD . Use the alternate CD : the installation is text only but should work.

Are you sure this is 64mB only : I cannot believe XP can run on that

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wahkao1990 (wahkao1990) said : 		#3

yes only 64mb. and XP runs finely on that. i tot ubuntu was a low req OS. Yea and i am trying out the alt CD now. If it doesnt work. I wont try Linux anymore. uppdate u later on it. thx for ur help.

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Benoit Malet (benoit-malet) said : 		#4

Hello !

Ubuntu doesn't require that much memory (especially if you choose the Xubuntu flavor), but the LiveCD runs entirely in memory, so that's a bit more requiring ...

Good luck with your install !

Regards,
Benoît

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Sébastien Corriveau (sebcor-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Linux runs on extremely low memory systems, but not with a full features graphical environment like Gnome. Ubuntu is design to gives you this full feature desktop environment and that's what it needs the additional memory for. The 7.10 release notes (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710) tells us that the minimum memory requirement to run the "Alternate CD" is 256MB. The "Desktop CD" is even more.

Sorry, but 64 MB of RAM is not enough to install Ubuntu.

Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu specially design for system with low memory. It might work on your system but I never tried it.

Good luck.

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wahkao1990 (wahkao1990) said : 		#6

i've got it installed. thru the text based and OEM mode.. it worked.. until the part where i have to log in. i could type the username but the keyoboard couldnt work for the password. i gave up and installed XP. works perfectly now. No lag. no nothing. cool. Windows rocks. thx for ur help.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#7

I am sure you don't have only 64Mo of RAM : otherwise, WIndows XP would not even boot.

And not seing the password is usual in linux : this way, nobody can see the number of characters of your password : you only had to type your password and hit enter :-)

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wahkao1990 (wahkao1990) said : 		#8

Yes. I have ONLY 64MB RAM. Right Click> Properties of My computer shows the exact specs b4 and after the format. AND using a software i got for somewhere which i forgot, it also tells me i have 64mb sd ram.

btw regarding the password. i tried keying it like 2917382653874265486523986532987465 times. which obviously failed and i went back to XP which was more user-friendly and specs friendly. thanks for the help. "Problem Solved" Thread Closed.