[DC LoCo] An Install Fail Party

[Frank J. Gómez]

Man, I just had a private fail party yesterday, just me and my intern.  It
was a Gateway MA2.  Seems to be some kind of video card issue.  Couldn't get
through the LIveCD -- it would die on the Ubuntu logo.  Lubuntu LiveCD
failed too.  Went with the alternate installer and got it to install, but on
reboot the Ubuntu logo would choke it every time.  Couldn't figure out how
to get to the CLI from the alternate CD to try anything (my stab in the dark
was that this was the KMS issue referenced in the release
notes<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Working around
bugs in the
new kernel video architecture>), so...

... I had the intern install XP.  Oh, shame!

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I am hosting a Linux install fail party where you bring the computers that
> can't run Linux and spend countless hours trying and failing to do so.
>
> My favorite one so far is a DELL 4500S.  It can run FreeBSD perfectly but
> blows up in so many interesting and different ways while trying to install
> Linux depending on the boot options
> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.35/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> you give it.  Naturally the default options fail too.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in bringing your
> guaranteed-to-fail-to-install-Linux hardware and camcorders, etc. to bring
> the party to the world.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
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