Comment 1 for bug 396244

Hi Matthijs,

I ran into the same problem yesterday, same laptop (Acer Aspire 1310). No luck installing from CD but I've got a workaround: Installing via network. Here's how:

1. Make sure you've got the most recent BIOS (on Acer's website there's a link like "older models")

2. Set the laptop to boot from PXE

3. For the following you'll need the MAC and IP adress of the laptop. I'm using DHCP so what I did was
    - boot the live system from CD, this works if you're using "acpi=off" and "noapic"
    - once it's up, open terminal and get MAC/IP from ifconfig

4. Follow the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LocalNet
    I ran into the following:
    - at one point you have to "Download the netboot installer tarfile from the Ubuntu Archives", the link, however, points to intrepid -> use this: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/386/netboot.tar.gz
    - there's a script for the bootp daemon, one would actually have to RUN that script... if you blindly follow the instructions (like yours truly), you'll wonder why bootp support seems to be not working :)
    - you might have to start tftp-hpa manually, as in the default config it's not configured to run as a daemon

5. Boot the laptop