Live CD's hate my laptop....WTF

sabashuali

sabashuali

Ani Ma'amin
Hi all

I am so annoyed!
This morning I have tried to install via a live cd for the 1,000,000 time on my laptop and surprise, surprise it hung midway....

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

So far I have tried Gentoo (do not ask please), DSL, LinuxOS, Kubuntu (Dapper), Xubuntu (Dapper).

Every CD seem to load and work fine and as soon as I try to install, the :swear: hits the fan. It always hang somewhere :x: W T F???

By the way the new Kubuntu partitioning tool absolutely sucks!
Apart from being, well... just naff, it gives you the following options only:
ext2
ext3
FAT32 (WTF)
FAT16 (WTF)
jfs
NTFS(WTF)
xfs

This is such a let down from their previous 'command line' partitioner.
I just do not know what the hell happened there.

So at the moment I cannot install Kubuntu unless I follow Ubuntu's default partition table - what happen to freedom?

I am just not sure what just happen. Before this whole live CD malarky I never had any problems installing anything......
AAAAARRRRRRRRR :swear:
 
The command line install is still available, but they renamed it!

You need to download the 'Alternate install CD' HERE

The only live CD to ever fail me was the SuSE CDs... Suprise, Suprise. Basically it kept detecting my monitor wrongly and always gave me the wrong sync rate. Hence i couldn't see anything on the screen :x:
 
sabashuali said:
Is that the OEM option?
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Yes, that's right. The Live CD is now called the 'Desktop CD Install' and the command line installer is called 'Alternative Install CD'.
 
The Desktop Install CD lets you install it to the hard disk with a nice graphical installer. I didnt know that and downloaded the server CD instead.
 
Saba, from what i've read so far, you are not the only one experiencing problems with the Live CD on a laptop.

It seems that the problem is quite widespread and is well documented on the internet. A lot of 'would be' good reviews have taken a real dig at the ubuntu developers for failing to fix the bugs.

Still, I am sure the ubuntu team will get around to releasing patches shortly. Personally I haven't experienced that many problems and i've been beta testing Kubuntu Dapper for a while.

In fact, the upgrade has fixed a few annoying bugs that were present in Breezy. Like the USB mount system for example.
 
Thanks Mega

I have now installed Kubuntu 6.06 LTS successfully using the alternative CD.
Although it is not as nippy as Xubuntu, I preffer KDE.

Thanks for all your help.
 
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