[ubuntu-za] Problems with my Dell machine

[Maurice Diekhorst]

Hey Bill,

Have you tried an alternate install disk as well on your Dell?

If that doesnt work, you can just easily upgrade your 606 to 710 via command line.
Unfortunately, I dont know that code you will have to edit anymore, but I know its a possibility.
Perhaps someone on the Ubuntu forums, or someone in this mailinglist knows that answer?

Anyhow, good luck ;)

Friendly Greetings, Maurice. 

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> From: pops at cairnsgames.co.za
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:43:32 +0200
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Problems with my Dell machine
> 
> I have posted this as a query on Ubuntu forums, but thought that someone
> here might have a bright idea:
> 
> I have an old Dell desktop - it was new in 1999 - and I have been
> running Ubuntu 6.06 on it quite happily. But I upgraded to 7.10 on my
> other (much newer) machine recently and decided that it was time that
> the Dell followed suit.
> 
> I have an Ubuntu 7.10 install disk from ShipIt. Unfortunately, it will
> not load on the Dell. I choose the Run / Install option and it seems to
> start OK but then just freezes. Blank screen, no disk activity.
> 
> I thought it might be a bad disk and tried it as a live CD on my HP
> notebook (from work, doomed to run Windows, shame). It worked fine.
> (Although, when I told it to do an integrity check on the disk, it too
> hung).
> 
> Any idea? Nothing wrong with 6.06 of course, but it would be nice to
> have the whole family at the same level.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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