Micheal,

I downloaded ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso, burnt it onto a cd started the install process, and then it told me that the packages were corrupted.  However, it looked like it was going to work.

I tried burning it onto another cd, however, the second cd was invalid as well, so, I ran md5sum on the downloaded file and found that to be corrupted too.  I tried downloading it 2 more times with wget  from the command line and every download was corrupted.

I will try calling a friend to see if he can download and burn the iso image for me.

MatthewMPP



Michael Butash wrote: 
Matthew,

  If you're doing a "live cd" install and graphics not working, the open
source "nv" driver for nvidia might not like the quadro, or not know
about it's pci id to load.  Try using the alternative desktop install
(assuming desktop here), vs. using the "live cd" to install - this is a
curses based install, and more forgiving for vesa mode graphic installs
on quirky video.

  If you still can't boot to a desktop afterwards, log in with failsafe
x (default, will nag you video is broken and to boot with that), or a
failsafe console if nothing else, get on the network, and download the
nvidia drivers from their site.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.51.html

  You'll need build-essentials and kernel headers for your system, use
"apt-get install linux-headers-'uname -a' build-essential".  Remove
restricted modules with "apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-common" to do away
with the oss driver.  Next, top GDM (/etc/init.d/gdm stop), run the
binary install with "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.51.pkg1.run", and let it
install.

  I've not specifically worked with quadro cards, but I'm assuming its
inline with a typical nvidia card, and will be supported with the
proprietary drivers.  There's tons of how-to's about this out there,
just google "ubuntu nvidia drivers".  The oss ones are still pretty
crappy for getting any kind of glitz or direct rendering capability.

-mb


On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 08:23 -0700, Matthew A Coulliette wrote:
  
Hi everyone,

I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.04 on another computer and it
is giving me a lot of trouble.  The computer boots from the install
cdrom like normal.  Then, I select install and it will start the process
and then it will hang on me.  I have tried installing Debian; with
Debian it did almost the whole install and then hung when it tried to
install the graphics driver.

The computer has a Quadro FX 3000 graphics card.  I believe that this is
the cause of my problems.  On the hello screen that is loaded from the
installation disk there are F4 options.  I tried using "graphics safe
mode" and it did not work.  I would like to try, "use driver update
disk" next.  So, how do I make this disk for my graphics card and how do
I use it for the installation process?

Thanks in advance for your replies. - MatthewMPP
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