installing it not the problem, it's getting it to start.<br><br>and you're welcome, just keep on paying you're taxes :)<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2007 2:05 PM, Don Wood <<a href="mailto:dond@standalelumber.com">
dond@standalelumber.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Welcome home and a big thank you!<br><br>I had something similar with an older laptop with ubuntu. I ended up
<br>installing Debian etch from a net install disc.<br><p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:01 -0500, Jorge La wrote:<br>> I just recently return home from active duty and bought a Presario
<br>> F700. I tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 on it, but the live CD does not<br>> boot correctly. I tried other older distros that I had laying around<br>> the house before I left. None of them worked except for DSL and Slax-I
<br>> was kind of surprised. After some research, I found that this laptop<br>> has ACPI problems with linux. I'm not the only one who has problem<br>> with Linux on this laptop.<br>><br>> I even try to boot with noacpi and acpi off but it still does not boot
<br>> correctly. Single user and failsafe mode does not boot also. I am very<br>> confused. I can install Ubuntu with the Alt installer, but I can not<br>> log in, text or GUI mode.<br>><br>> any help? (I got home 3 days after the install fest :-/)
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