Hey guys, after previously running fedora core 1-4, and then migrating to kubuntu for the past year i decided to (after backing up important stuff) do a clean install of the new kubuntu 6.06LTS onto my ibm t30 laptop. Unfortunately I ALWAYS get stuck at 71% completion of the installer. It reaches 71% and then locks up, no mouse, no keys, no nothing. here are the details
system is a 1.8 ghz pentium, with 512 ram.
hard drive = 40 gig laid out as the following:
(from my old grub configuration, verified by partition magic and qtparted)
HD0,1 : 15 gig windows XP partition (ntfs)
HD0,3 3 gig IBM Rescue Partition
HD0,2: 50 Mb Boot partition (ext2)
HD0,4 (extended partition)
HD0,5: 512 MB linux-swap
HD0,6: 19 Gb root partition (used to be reiserfs, but since this version of kubuntu supported jfs out of the box i switched to that and reformatted) (JFS)
the layout is such that HDA1, 3 and 4 are logical, 5 and 6 are extended/virtual partitions.
Priot to installing I ran the check media check and it passed and begins installation. I have tried redownloading the iso from both direct and from torrents, as well as reburning the file and burning it on different machines. No matter what I do when it reaches 71% completion on the installer (no sooner and no later) it pretty much locks up.
Help would be appreciated, or I'm going to have to revert to (*SHUDDER*) fedora or (double shudder) gentoo (which i really dont want to do for this laptop)
- thanks all
system is a 1.8 ghz pentium, with 512 ram.
hard drive = 40 gig laid out as the following:
(from my old grub configuration, verified by partition magic and qtparted)
HD0,1 : 15 gig windows XP partition (ntfs)
HD0,3 3 gig IBM Rescue Partition
HD0,2: 50 Mb Boot partition (ext2)
HD0,4 (extended partition)
HD0,5: 512 MB linux-swap
HD0,6: 19 Gb root partition (used to be reiserfs, but since this version of kubuntu supported jfs out of the box i switched to that and reformatted) (JFS)
the layout is such that HDA1, 3 and 4 are logical, 5 and 6 are extended/virtual partitions.
Priot to installing I ran the check media check and it passed and begins installation. I have tried redownloading the iso from both direct and from torrents, as well as reburning the file and burning it on different machines. No matter what I do when it reaches 71% completion on the installer (no sooner and no later) it pretty much locks up.
Help would be appreciated, or I'm going to have to revert to (*SHUDDER*) fedora or (double shudder) gentoo (which i really dont want to do for this laptop)
- thanks all
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