converting from win7

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
> Hope the holidays are going well for everyone. My girlfriend asked me put a
> trial of ubuntu on her desktop system so she have a go at it to see if
> switching to Ubuntu would work for her. She has a Sony Vaio All-In-One. I
> grabbed 10.10 from the Ubuntu site and burned it.
> When I loaded the disc it asked me automagically to run wubi (never seen
> that before). I tried booting from the disc, but first got a kb failure, and
> then, after the initial bootup sequence, the screen simply goes black. I
> went back and took the Wubi option, which, after the install, asked to
> reboot to complete the installation. I got the same results. Since the
> graphic card seems to be compatible (checked both ubuntu and linuxhardware),
> I'm wondering about this box. I've never seen a system that Ubuntu couldn't
> be installed on, live cd or otherwise. Has anyone gotten Ubuntu installed on
> an all-in-one system and was there anything different that I'd need on the
> boot line to get this started? Thanks, as always, for the input...
> If it matters, the model is Sony VAIO PCV-A1111L.
>
> Jack

- Do you intend to run Ubuntu from inside Windows with Wubi or
repartition the disk to install Ubuntu in its proper partitions?

- Do you have access to memtest and CD test? Have you tested them?

- Have you set the BIOS to try to boot from the CD first?

- Are you sure you can't run Ubuntu from the live CD? (It would
indicate hardware incompatibility.)

- Have you tried to startup Ubuntu with different parameters?

- Have ou googled the computer name plus "ubuntu" to check issues with
his kind of hardware?

- Have you considered running Ubuntu on a virtual machine like VirtualBox?

L.

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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
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