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Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
text?

JC wrote:
> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
> Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
> text?

It doesn't do a graphic install, it might just be setting a console mode
that your lappy doesn't like.
Press F12 when you see the splash screen for the boot options

shannon wrote:
> JC wrote:
>
>> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
>> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it
>> is) Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to
>> install by text?
>
>
> It doesn't do a graphic install, it might just be setting a console mode
> that your lappy doesn't like.
> Press F12 when you see the splash screen for the boot options

boot: linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false

might work

I was trying to run Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD, on an Acer laptop too, and I
was stuck when it was at 86% of finding ide-cd Linux ATAPI something,
and just waited there until I restarted.

Do I have to wait a bit longer or it's just not meant for me?

JC wrote:

> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
> Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
> text?

Have you looked here?

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:56:20 +1300, steve <>
wrote:

>JC wrote:
>
>> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
>> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
>> Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
>> text?
>
>Have you looked here?
>
>http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
>

Use Windows XP. It should install fine on that machine.



Sorry, couldn't resist!

Craig Shore wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:56:20 +1300, steve <>
> wrote:
>
>> JC wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
>>> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
>>> Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
>>> text?
>> Have you looked here?
>>
>> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
>>
>
> Use Windows XP. It should install fine on that machine.
>
>
>
> Sorry, couldn't resist!

I am using Windows XP, I want to set up a dual boot system with XP and
Ubuntu if possible.

hi sex weman

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:21:17 +1300, JC <> wrote:

>Craig Shore wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:56:20 +1300, steve <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> JC wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
>>>> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
>>>> Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
>>>> text?
>>> Have you looked here?
>>>
>>> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
>>>
>>
>> Use Windows XP. It should install fine on that machine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, couldn't resist!
>
>I am using Windows XP, I want to set up a dual boot system with XP and
>Ubuntu if possible.

Yeah I know. It wasn't an answer to your problem, it was a dig at Steve relating
to another current thread here.

Craig Shore wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:56:20 +1300, steve
> <> wrote:
>
>>JC wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to install Ubuntu on an Acer laptop, but keep getting a garbled
>>> screen when it tries to do the graphical install (which I presume it is)
>>> Is there a command you type after the initial boot prompt to install by
>>> text?
>>
>>Have you looked here?
>>
>>http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
>>
>
> Use Windows XP. It should install fine on that machine.
>
>
>
> Sorry, couldn't resist!

That's fine. It's a perfectly good answer. No objections here.