Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 09/09/2012 02:58 AM, 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?
>
> 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.
> Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program
> freezes,
> (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired)  Any ideas?
>
> Kjetil
I think I remember someone else having trouble with an HP, and it
turned out that HP has filled up all 4 primary partitions with
"stuff" for recovery, etc., so there is no place to put another OS.
You'll have to repartition the drive, such that you have a partition
into which you can put secondary partitions for /root and /home,
at the least. Or you could scrub Windows altogether, and
clean the drive out, but that's a bit drastic, unless you know
you'll never need Windows for anything.

--doug

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