[Discuss] Ubuntu on my old laptop :-((

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:32:58PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> At the installfest, I decided to upgrade my Hp/Compag 64-bit nx6125
> laptop with Ubuntu 12.04. However, when I boot from either USB media or
> CD media (32-bit or 64-bit) all I get it the Ubuntu logo. The cycling
> dots all stop. The laptop currently runs Kubuntu 11.04 (or 11.10). After
> failing Ubuntu on several tries with media that I built and with
> official Ubuntu media. Just to see if the if the laptop could run a
> recent kernel, I booted Fedora 17 Live USB successfully, so it looks
> like there is an issue with Ubuntu 12.04. The laptop is about 7 years
> old with an AMD 64-bit CPU. I've got plenty of memory on the laptop.


You could try starting with an Ubuntu alternate install, such as
the one for servers... http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

That should come up without X. Then you just install what you
want.

-dsr-

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