Installation probleme

[tuan2814]

I used torrent to download Ultimate Edition 1.7gome and kde . Burn it to dvd an run. In live mode it is cool. But when i try to install it. everything is oki until the final step when i click on install. At the part "dectect file system" my laptop down. It crashed and i cannot even mouse the mouse. I tried to reformat my hdd but it is useless. so i downloaded the version gnome only but the same probleme. How can i solve this? anyone guide me please .Thank for your help.

[dcorleone]

You didn't try to use some odd file-system did you? I'm not sure, but I don't THINK you can boot from an ext4 or reiser4 partition. You used just regular ext3 volumes?

I'm not a linux expert, I just know enough to get in trouble, so I'm just goin' on generic tech-support instincts here, but it sounds like a driver issue. Laptops are often quirky. The live disc would run fine cuz it's running off a regular ATAPI CD/DVD drive and runs in RAM. That's why you can run the live-disc. I'd suspect that it can install because some module-level driver gets run during the live-disc bootup so you can access your drives once linux is up and running, but you can't access 'em to boot from cuz that's at a stage of the process before that part gets loaded.

Again, I'm just talkin' out my ass here, but if it was me, I'd do some research on the laptop. Find out what kinda chipset it uses, what kinda drives, etc, then see if I could find any info about potential hardware conflicts. It might not turn anything up, but it'd be a good place to start looking.

Good luck.

[drama]

i suggest having a read of daddyx3's partitioning howto. i assume you used the wrong file systems. although mines did lockup the first time at the end. i just powered of back o n. repartitioned and it was fine. here is a link to the howto though

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