Gora and Sudev, thanks for advice and offer to help. It will perhaps be easier for us to meet in Faridabad, if Sudev can give some time. Else, we will perhaps land up at CSDS on Monday.
Thanks. Vikas On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:36:01AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > On 21/07/07, Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody have an experience of installing ubuntu on core2duo > > laptop? A friend has recently purchased a new HP laptop (dv2519). As > > is being done by most vendors, the machine came pre-installed with > > Vista. And this guy is already sick of it and wants to give linux a > > try. > > Like Gora I too have been running Ubuntu7.04 on my HP Pavillion Tx1000 > core 2 AMD. No problems and i would endorse his vies on 32 bit. > > Try passing option "linux noapic and acpi=on" at the live cd boot > prompt. You may need to add vga=hi or vga=711 if you are having wide > screen. > > > Would somebody be able to advise? Would somebody be able to help with actual > > installation? > > I would. I am in Faridabad and you will have to make an effort to get there > :-) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
