No install or Live CD on HP Pavilion.

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OK, after being less than pleased with my Vista experience, I'm back to try Linux once again. Trouble is, I can't get it to run on my HP Pavilion dv9310us. It has a dual-core AMD64 1.6ghz processor, so I've been using the 64bit downloads. I've tried running the live cd, which won't get past configuring network devices - so it won't run. I've tried the alternate install, but it appears to freeze up on partitioning a drive.

After each burn, I've verified the data on the disk, then used the Kubuntu utility to check validity of the CD. Everything seems fine. I noticed some other posts with the Pavilion. Are there some laptops that it won't install on?

As was mentioned in another post, there could be many reasons my install doesn't work. What are the steps that I need to take to provide the right information to get help solving this problem?




Follow up question; Does monodevelope work in Kubuntu since it is made for GNOME?


Thanks,

SteveJ

[dibl]

Re: No install or Live CD on HP Pavilion.

There are numerous threads on the Ubuntu Forum about the HP DV9xxx series -- apparently there are some tweaks needed. Here's one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=hp+pavilion

[WASHAD]

Re: No install or Live CD on HP Pavilion.


Thanks for the reply,

I checked out the link that you referred me to - I'm not sure that they really got the problem solved. Even when they switched to 32bit and ran it under a special install it seemed to be giving problems.

I wonder if I have just chosen the wrong hardware and may be out of luck?

Thanks,

SteveJ

[dibl]

Re: No install or Live CD on HP Pavilion.

You may simply be "ahead of your time" with it. Here's more:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512059

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=431815


Looks like lots of folks are working on the issues --

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Re: No install or Live CD on HP Pavilion.


Thanks for your help, I'll give some of these a try when I get home.

SteveJ

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Re: No install or Live CD on HP Pavilion.


OK,

I have Kubuntu installed, and am working through getting drivers installed. In the tutorial from the link provided in the above posts, the instructions say;

Broadcom 43xx Wireless
NOTE: Sometimes recognized as "Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390"

Use the most recent drivers from the HP webiste for best results: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe.
NDISwrapper tutorial:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...ndiswrapper%29

How do I install the drivers? The download from hp is saved as a .exe.

Thanks,

SteveJ