On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 02:58 -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? > > 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?
Can you boot into a small Linux on a Live CD, e.g. can you boot into http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start ? Did you test Linux that aren't Debian based? E.g. Suse and/or Fedora? Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347264224.11998.46.camel@precise
