Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la.  I have tried all night to
> install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of
> different sort.
> Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same
> symptoms)  When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a
> lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any
> ideas?

Yes, try with the text expert installer, disable KMS and jump to a debug 
console just in the event there's something logged there.
 
> I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but
> that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs
> returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd.

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Precision does matter. What was the exact error you got?

Greetings,

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Camaleón