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Xubuntu Install help

  • 13-02-2008 5:44pm
    #1
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭


    I have an old pentium 3 machine and I'm trying to install Xubuntu on it. But every time I try, the install just hangs. Before it tries to install it says 'BIOS Age (1999) fails cutoff (2000).

    I checked Disk Integrity and it found 31 errors. I downloaded the image staright off the official site and burned to DVD.

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    cregser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 999 ✭✭✭cregser


    Update your BIOS maybe. You'll probably need a floppy disk.


  • #3
    stylers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭stylers


    dod you try the text mode install instead, or does it hang before the graphical installer even gets running ?. I wouldnt worry about the BIOS age warning for now, it will only affect power management.


  • #4
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭niallb


    You're trying to install off a corrupted image - it won't work.
    Go back to where you downloaded the DVD from, and look for another little file
    with the same name, but with .md5 after it.
    This is a checksum. Look for instructions on how to check the md5sum for the image
    you downloaded. If they match, then you just burned a bad disk, so try again - it happens.
    If they don't match, you'll need to get the rest of the file, or it got corrupted in download
    and you'll need to get the whole thing again.
    Either way, you're unlikely to succeed with the DVD disk you currently have.
    There's 31 things wrong with it at least in random places - could mean anything.


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