Wubi, LiveCD or Install - Mulitple PCs: Won't work...
EDIT 1: md5 checks all passed. All CD/DVDs used have been checked and found error free. Also, any CD/DVD burnt has of course been burnt at the slowest speed.
EDIT 2: To be clear, I will not be using Kubuntu further, but I will try to get it working to help any others that may have these same issues.
EDIT 3: Linux Mint LiveCD also freezes at the desktop. So basically that means it's a hardware issue. Maybe the GTX580.
So far almost everything I have tried to do has failed with Kubuntu. First I downloaded the 32bit distro and tried to install it on an older PC. During the install the installer itself crashed and popped up with a huge error message.
Today, I thought I would try it on my home PC. I figured the easiest way to do this was to download Wubi. Boy was I wrong. Not only did it default the the 32 bit ISO in my downloads folder, but upon removing that ISO it would produce an error saying that it could not download the metalink and therefore the ISO.
So I manually downloaded the 64bit ISO and placed it in the same directory as Wubi. Then apparently everything went off without a hitch. That is until I tried to actually boot into Kubuntu. I was, after some time, met with a black screen and a mouse pointer. Nothing more.
So I reluctantly decided to try burning the ISO to a CD and booting into it that way. It seemed to boot fine and offered me the option to try the LiveCD or to install, I opted for the LiveCD. It then loaded into the desktop and everything became unresponsive except the mouse cursor. Oh my...
Feeling adventurous I rebooted the system and chose the installation option instead. It the proceeded to the section where I choose what hard drive to install too, and how much space to allocate. I however was only presented with the option of one of my four hard drives. I chose the shrink the size to 200 gigs and then proceed. It popped up warning that this operation was irreversible. However, at this point it froze the whole system and prevented me from continuing.
Never in my life have a came across such disaster of a distro. Except for perhaps Ubuntu and it's Unity desktop. I am going to include a fairly detailed listing of the hardware in my computer to hopefully figure out the issue, as I hope this sort of experience isn't common.
Proc:
3.30 gigahertz AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
768 kilobyte primary memory cache
3072 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (6 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Mobo:
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Crosshair IV Extreme Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: 107662070000301
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0502 11/04/2010
Drives:
ATAPI iHAS424 Y ATA Device [Optical drive]
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMATV1975177, rev 05.00K05, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR4 [Hard drive] (150.04 GB) -- drive 2, s/n WD-WMAP41689199, rev 21.07QR4, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WMAZA0195146, rev 50.0AB50, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 3, s/n WD-WMAZA0194224, rev 50.0AB50, SMART Status: Healthy
Memory:
6144 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Display:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 [Display adapter]
Acer P224W [Monitor] (22.0"vis, s/n ETLEA0D030919029698511, May 2009)
EDIT 2: To be clear, I will not be using Kubuntu further, but I will try to get it working to help any others that may have these same issues.
EDIT 3: Linux Mint LiveCD also freezes at the desktop. So basically that means it's a hardware issue. Maybe the GTX580.
So far almost everything I have tried to do has failed with Kubuntu. First I downloaded the 32bit distro and tried to install it on an older PC. During the install the installer itself crashed and popped up with a huge error message.
Today, I thought I would try it on my home PC. I figured the easiest way to do this was to download Wubi. Boy was I wrong. Not only did it default the the 32 bit ISO in my downloads folder, but upon removing that ISO it would produce an error saying that it could not download the metalink and therefore the ISO.
So I manually downloaded the 64bit ISO and placed it in the same directory as Wubi. Then apparently everything went off without a hitch. That is until I tried to actually boot into Kubuntu. I was, after some time, met with a black screen and a mouse pointer. Nothing more.
So I reluctantly decided to try burning the ISO to a CD and booting into it that way. It seemed to boot fine and offered me the option to try the LiveCD or to install, I opted for the LiveCD. It then loaded into the desktop and everything became unresponsive except the mouse cursor. Oh my...
Feeling adventurous I rebooted the system and chose the installation option instead. It the proceeded to the section where I choose what hard drive to install too, and how much space to allocate. I however was only presented with the option of one of my four hard drives. I chose the shrink the size to 200 gigs and then proceed. It popped up warning that this operation was irreversible. However, at this point it froze the whole system and prevented me from continuing.
Never in my life have a came across such disaster of a distro. Except for perhaps Ubuntu and it's Unity desktop. I am going to include a fairly detailed listing of the hardware in my computer to hopefully figure out the issue, as I hope this sort of experience isn't common.
Proc:
3.30 gigahertz AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
768 kilobyte primary memory cache
3072 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (6 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Mobo:
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Crosshair IV Extreme Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: 107662070000301
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0502 11/04/2010
Drives:
ATAPI iHAS424 Y ATA Device [Optical drive]
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMATV1975177, rev 05.00K05, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR4 [Hard drive] (150.04 GB) -- drive 2, s/n WD-WMAP41689199, rev 21.07QR4, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WMAZA0195146, rev 50.0AB50, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 3, s/n WD-WMAZA0194224, rev 50.0AB50, SMART Status: Healthy
Memory:
6144 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Display:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 [Display adapter]
Acer P224W [Monitor] (22.0"vis, s/n ETLEA0D030919029698511, May 2009)
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