installing ubuntu

[achiever]

I have a HP pavilion laptop that I am trying to install Ubuntu on. When I got the laptop it was running REALLY SLOW. I assumed that was because of all of the crap that was installed on it. When ubuntu finally boots from the cd, and I go to install it, it hangs. Would reformatting the hard drive and doing a clean install be helpful or could this be a hardware issue? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[larciel]

Could be HD problem as well if you're having problems with two OSes

 

[Sink41]

By hang do you mean when you try to boot from the cd you just get a black screen (without getting to the live desktop?) If so try going to the edit boot options and remove "quiet" and "splash". This is what i had to do to get it to load on my desktop machine but it was still quite buggy, the partition manager constantly crashed and the installer crashed halfway through installation. In the end I gave up and tried opensuse which didnt have any issues.

 

[achiever]

No, it boots all the way to the desktop and then when I click the install icon it just freezes or hangs. Larciel may have a point, but I did take out the HD and removed a lot of files to my PC with a USB adapter without any problems. I'm trying the install again as I type this. Thanks for your replies.

 

[IamDavid]

Its a APIC problem.. Had the same issue as many others.. DO a search around Ubuntu forums. Have to ad a line or too.. Real easy to do. I am no geek and had no problems...

 

[IamDavid]

Here is what I did:

After going through the help, I changed the boot options which prevented the lockups. The steps are as follows.
a) Hit F6 to get to the boot options once you see the menu
b) Hit ESC to get into the text based installer. Hit enter to confirm
c) You will see boot: at the prompt
d) Type in live noapic nolapic, Your first line should look like boot: live noapic nolapic
e) Hit enter to move to the installation
Next problem I ran into was the creation of swap partition. I booted off of live cd and wanted to install the OS to the disk. How ever, when I came to the creating the partitions, it would give me options to create only the root partition. I am surprised that the ubuntu installer did not give me an option to create a swap partition. The alternative is to go repartition using gparted from System -> Administration -> Partition Editor and create partitions as I liked and then got back to the install program.

I copied this off a site somewhere.. Don't remember where but thatnks to whoever wrote it.

 

[Brazen]

Are you using Gutsy? I've had problems with Gutsy and decided not to mess with it. I could probably find workarounds just as IamDavid did (I had a couple issues which were probably also apic-related), but I like Feisty and it works like a daisy so that is what I have on my laptop.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Brazen
Are you using Gutsy? I've had problems with Gutsy and decided not to mess with it. I could probably find workarounds just as IamDavid did (I had a couple issues which were probably also apic-related), but I like Feisty and it works like a daisy so that is what I have on my laptop.

Gutsy has WAY to many issues on HP laptops for now.. Is your's an HP?