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On 11/02/13 14:00, paul sutton wrote:
On 11/02/13 12:01, tom wrote:On 11/02/13 10:19, raymond.knowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Hi All, Having problems with a Mint 14 installation onto an HP Pavilion (ex Vista, ex Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) machine. The disk (LXF 168) appears to do all the usual things one would expect for a fresh install. It picks up the correct screen res (1280 x 1024), correctly identifies network present, sets the correct time, shows the Mint 14 background screen ... and stops. It puts up an icon for install, then goes no further. Suggestions please ? Regards etc, Ray Knowles.Assuming you checked the disk for errors... And that you've actually clicked the icon? Try running Mint from the disk - rather than doing an install. Can you alt-f1 into a console? I'm noticing more and more duffness on install disks these days - lack of drivers, stupid presentations that don’t work and kill the installetc etc. Tom te tom te tomWe had this a few years ago, at a lug meet I think rob suggested burning a cd at a lower speed, either that copy to usb flash drive. I think some of these live cd's are trying to do too much, and this is causing problems (like tom said) but this is having a negative effect on the image of Linux based systems, Tom any particular patten to this, are we looking at larger distros such as Ubuntu, mint having these issues, ? Paul
The CD's/DVD's are fine - MD5 checks et ok.I've had trouble with mint 12/13/14 (64 bit) and (*)ubuntu from 11.10 32 and 64 bit. A lot of not getting hardware right - or the case of 12.10 xubuntu (64bit) there was a slideshow that crapped out on AMD and took out the install process - you had to go to a console and sudo app-get remove the slideshow and then it worked but still got displays wrong - Nvidia but that just what came with my PC's. Nvidia is to be avoided at all costs but many other things that just worked no longer do - my 4 core amd machine cant manage the cpu fan and overheats when hammered but was fine up to 11.10 ubuntu.
I havent the tenacity to fix these things any more.... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq