Ubuntu would not install

[Donna]

Here is a synopsis of what happened (this is not my first time installing Ubuntu):

1. Downloaded and burned Ubuntu LiveCD
2. Booted up off CD no problem
3. Clicked on Install, CD chruned for >50 mins with no panel appearing , so something was not right.

FYI, the laptop I was installing this on had it's HD wiped clean (used Thinkpad T21, P3, 256Mb, 20Gb HD, 8xCD/DVD), So I thought that perhaps it needed a file system on the HD so I put a free DOS on there but that made no difference.

4. I downloaded XUbuntu as iit indicated that it was a little lighter so I thought it might work better on this old clunker. It also booted up the LiveCD OK. It installed OK, slow but not as bad. But when I went to boot up off the HD, the screen was all scrambled up (half screen, with interlaced lines and horizontally duplicated images, completely un-readable). I tried messing with vidmod from the safe start prompt but could not get it to work.

5. Then I tried the orignal Ubuntu LiveCD and tried installing that again, and guess what ?? Sucess !!!!

So, my conclusion here is that for some reason, Ubuntu LiveCD Installer needs a file system or partition on the HD already there in order to work ??
I am not sure why the freeDOS did not work ? Nor do I understand why XFCE had a scrambled screen.

If there is some sort of requirement to have the HD formatted or something I would be good to know that, or did I perhaps just run into a real wierd situation ???

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Hi, Donna!

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker.

Actually, your laptop did not have enough RAM to run the Ubuntu installer (384MB is required for Ubuntu and 256MB for Xubuntu):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

But when you were installing Xubuntu, it did create a swap partition on your hard drive, and the next time you rebooted with Ubuntu livecd, the swap was detected and used automatically.

[Donna (dpolehn)]

You know what, thanks for getting back to me on this, although it was a long
time ago. And by reading the other posts, I did figure out the RAM issue,
now I feel bad that I did not go back and post how I got around that, which
was (drum roll) I just was more patient and let it finish. Ubuntu actually
runs fine on that lap top and I use it as a test maching for this embedded
blah blah you don't care.

Later I liked it so much I put it on another lappy with more ramey and ...

UBUNTU ROCKS !

:-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Артём Попов" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:50 AM
Subject: [Bug 184182] Re: Ubuntu would not install

Hi, Donna!

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
a question in the support tracker.

Actually, your laptop did not have enough RAM to run the Ubuntu installer
(384MB is required for Ubuntu and 256MB for Xubuntu):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

But when you were installing Xubuntu, it did create a swap partition on
your hard drive, and the next time you rebooted with Ubuntu livecd, the
swap was detected and used automatically.

** Changed in: ubuntu
       Status: New => Invalid

** bug changed to question:
   https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/29983

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