I've tried Herd5 and the lastest daily alternate for Feisty (20070408) same issue : on boot (normal or single) black screen and a blinking prompt in the upper left corner.
Apparently a user successfully installed Etch on that computer : http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/12/14/debian-etch-on-dell-optiplex-320 If you need further info... -- can't restart a desktop installation on i386 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/79548 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs