On 26 April 2012 20:21, James Morrissey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope that you are all enjoying installing 12.04. > > On that front i am having a bit of trouble getting it (or anything > else for that matter) onto one of my older machines. The machine is > currently running Lubuntu 11.10 and that works fine. Now i am trying > to install 12.04 on it but every time i do so the machine freezes as i > try to load the live session. This freeze takes place while the little > dots under the Lubuntu logo are changing colour: they stop changing > colour and nothing happens. > > i have tried re-downloading the image and made different start-up > disks (i have only been using a USB). I have even tried ubuntu 12.04, > thinking it might be worth trying to run Unity 2D, and tried using a > much larger USB disk. All of this has failed and i remain stuck on the > opening screen of both Lubuntu and Ubuntu. > > I have not had any trouble with this machine before: I've been running > different distributions on it since 9.10, have had no problems booting > from a USB and as i said, Lubuntu 11.10 works great. > > Because i can't get the live instance to work i can't think of what i > might test on the machine - all the USB ports work fine while in > Lubuntu. > > If anyone has any ideas about what i might try to get it to work or > discover what's wrong, that'd be great. > > best, > > james. > > Hi James I have just tried a Lubuntu 12.04 beta on USB in my old EEEPC (and I mean the original 7" with Celeron processor and 512MB) and had no problem. It does reach a stage where the dots stop changing colour, but after about a minute or so of that it does boot OK. What is your machine? Tony
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