Top posting since you did.

OK, so when you said:
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. 
the "select install" was from the initial menu, not the screen icon I had thought you meant.  Was it then the second item on the menu?

BTW, http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1341 is a review of your mobo.  I would agree that using an alternate install cd would be a good thing to try but so would xubuntu or any of the other small distros.  You know I live way east, but next saturday is another installfest so we could play with it there if you want to haul the whole system, monitor, keyboard, etc in there.

But even before that, try booting the same CD again but use the check CD for defects option.  After all, it could be the drive in this machine has trouble with it even though it worked fine in another machine.  I would go so far as to suggest you make the check defects display messages as it works:
  1. Arrow down to the check for defects option and press F6.  A command line and a small menu box will appear.
  2. Press ESCAPE to dump the menu box
  3. Press left arrow to move the cursor (initially invisible) to the end of the word "quiet" and then backspace to remove that word.
  4. Press ENTER to begin the check which will now tell you on the screen what it is checking. NOTE that it will appear to hang for some time on one file (I think it's called squashfs) which takes a long time to process because it has a whole file system within it.
You could also run some memory tests but that is not likely your problem.


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Matthew A Coulliette <matthewlug@cox.net> wrote:
Hi,

The computer will not boot up using the the Ubuntu live cd.  It hangs the same as it does with the install.  I would like more information about the hardware as well.  Except for the video card, I built the machine a few years ago and I don't remember the hardware specifications.  Here is a list: (as best as I can recall).

HDD: 80GB ATA/133
Ram: DDR-266, 512mb, Kingston. (8 ram modules)
DDR-266, 512mb, Kingston. (16 ram modules)
cpu: AMD, Athlon XP, socket A
fsb: I believe that this might be the problem.  The computer is running at fsb:133, and the ram is 266.
mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe

Just, 1 more comment.  I tried a different video card in the computer to see what would happen, and it would not work at all.  MatthewMPP

Dazed_75 wrote:


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.

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