Installing Ubunut on old Laptop

.Griff.

.Griff.

.Griff.

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I've inherited an old Laptop, A Fujitsu Siemens V1000 to be exact and I'm trying to install Ubuntu on it. The laptop runs XP and surprisingly Windows 7 ok albeit a bit slowly so I figured Ubuntu would be not problem.

I've downloaded the latest release and burned the image to disc. It's booting from it ok as I can briefly see "Isolinux 3. something something" displayed on screen for a second but it then "freezes" with this image on screen.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/griff_90/d9c03dfb.jpg

Any ideas?

Edit - Spelling error in title.. Oops
 
Ok trying Linuxmint now..

Got 5 green dots on screen and lots of disc noise..

Edit - Now a black screen.

Edit 2 - Rebooting and trying again.

Edit 3 - Same thing. I get 5 green/white dots in the centre of the screen and lots of disc/HD activity for about a minute. Then the screen goes black and all disc/HD activity stops.

:(
 
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If I press the escape key when the green/white dots are on screen I get -

"process:279: Glib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)"

Edit - How do I take the network card out without ripping the laptop to pieces?!?
 
Might be getting somewhere. I ran it in comparability mode and now I'm looking at the desktop.

Just need to figure out what to do from here..
 
It's all installed now and boots up fine.

Next step it getting my Netgear WG111T USB wireless adapter to work. I've gone into "control centre" and tried to install the driver using "Windows Wireless Drivers" and pointed it to the relevant INF file on a usb stick but it says invalid driver.

Any ideas or do I need to go to PC World and pay a fortune for a lengthy cat5 cable? :(

By the way sorry for these questions, I'm new to Linux if you hadn't guessed already.
 
Cheers..

Re cat5 cables I know they're not expensive at all but what I meant was if I wanted one this afternoon then my only option is PC World where they obviously charge a fortune.

If I can't get wireless working I'll pop down to that shop that sells assorted cables and assorted electrical components tomorrow.
 
Oxy said:
how did it go?
Click to expand...

I ditched the WG111T (usb) and used an old WG511v2 PCMCIA card I had which is now working fine.

Linux (Mint) is all very new to me so I'm spending the evening reading forums about it.

Thanks for all your help.
 
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To be honest mate I'm not really sure what I'm doing and as a result I can't tell how well it runs as I've not tried anything.

All I've done so far is apply the updates it found and tried Firefox.
 
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