-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Mons wrote: > Sebastian Spiess wrote: >> So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith >> 'starting GNOME desktop manager' > > I've had a few people tell me the same, and upon investigation the > system did eventually get into GNOME, but could take upwards of half an > hour to get there due to slow CPU speed and low RAM. > > While LiveCDs are a nice idea, they are not practical for low-RAM > systems. My advice is to use the "Alternate" installer instead. FWIW, > I use this installer even on high-RAM systems for two major reasons: > > 1) It's much faster. A full install can sometimes be done in the time > it takes the LiveCD GUI installer just to boot to the desktop! > > 2) It also offers advanced disk setup options like RAID, LVM and > Encrypted LVM (a must for laptop users). These can be done > automatically by the installer (good for new users wanting advanced > features), manually by hand (good for us old greybeards who know exactly > what we want), or skipped altogether for simple partitioning. > > It is not difficult to use. There's no mouse input, but menus are > driven via ncurses (a quasi GUI system for console), and all options are > selectable with the keyboard arrows. Don't fear the Alternate installer > just because it's not mouse driven. > >> I tried different things for booting the machine >> vga=792 - this was needed in gutsy >> nosplash... to see what is happening >> fully live cd >> live cd with graphics compatibility (or whatever it is called) mode selected >> (F4 during boot) >> > > vga=normal is the way to set a standard text/non-framebuffer mode on > standard PC hardware. Also remove the "quiet" option to see more stuff > happening (in conjunction with nosplash, which you use already). > > -Dan >
Hi Dan, I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still. After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time. the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here... Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware detection/config file thing going on? seb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJDVrjMuBzgG5z7F8RAjwhAJ9ztTPXTi00LTl7MMowU7zk6Zqf8wCfSluU vPIoh+gU+wNKecbcg5i0Ve8= =0JFh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
