On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > different sort. > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same > symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a > lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any > ideas?
Yes, try with the text expert installer, disable KMS and jump to a debug console just in the event there's something logged there. > I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but > that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs > returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. (...) Precision does matter. What was the exact error you got? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2ia64$rra$8...@ger.gmane.org
