On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Matthew A Coulliette <matthewlug@cox.net>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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>
Hard to answer without more specifics.  But since the LiveCD apparently
displays properly, it is unlikely that the video card is the problem since
the install also fails in safe video mode.

Please tell us more about the machine: processor, amount of memory, disk
size and whether you are specifying to use the whole drive or to share it
with an existing OS. You might also boot to the live CD, open a terminal
(applications/accessories menu), type "sudo sfdisk -l" (without the quotes
and that is a dash small L), and post the output back here.

-- 
Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry