Ubuntu not installing on laptop

newtothislinuxthing · 11-12-2005, 04:35 PM

I am trying to throw Ubuntu on a Fujitsu Monte Carlo laptop (circa 1997). It will not boot by CDROM. Is there a way to create a boot diskette (floppy) to start the process and then install from CD? Please let me know. Thanks.

Sincerely,
newtothislinuxthing

Kyocera · 11-12-2005, 05:29 PM

I am new to this forum but have an idea since I have installed unbuntu on my thinkpad.
Download the Xandros 3.0.2. using bittorrent or bittornado. Make an ISO image and try that. Unless you are dead set on ubuntu I think you will like Xandros better. I sure do. And it work great on my desktop and Thinkpad t30.

newtothislinuxthing · 11-13-2005, 09:02 AM

Thanks for the advice, I may try it. I will let you know how it goes.

kenji · 11-13-2005, 11:25 AM

hi have you tried configuring your bios there you can change
the boot order of your laptop. have you tried other installation
methods like installing via hard drive, ftp, nfs or network? i
suggest you should! £Ä3

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Boot_floppy

bwog · 11-14-2005, 04:25 PM

In case you downloaded the iso; did you burn the iso as a (bootable) image?

newtothislinuxthing · 11-14-2005, 07:05 PM

Yes, that much I knew.

tehuti · 11-16-2005, 09:05 PM

Just an idea, but is "CD-ROM" on the list of bootable devices in the BIOS? You might have to change that....

bwog · 12-12-2005, 05:45 AM

This howto describes howto make a bootdiskette, it is applicable when you have aCDrom player but cant boot from it http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Bootdiskette

The author advises to use http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/lin...itewin-0.7.zip in windows to write a bootdiskimage http://slackware.at/data/slackware-c...s/sbootmgr.dsk to a diskette.

Put diskette and CDrom in the computer and restart.

(In linux you can make the diskette by writing
dd if=./sbootmgr.dsk of=/dev/fd0
in a console (terminal)

There is another one: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=94633

I never tried this myself.

hitman_forhire · 12-12-2005, 03:14 PM

I know I'm kinda late but I was wondering if you had gotten this to work yet? If not I can help you get it working, I revived older laptops all the time that get donated to me and I have some machines around that time period and they pretty much all boot from a CD once you give it enough effort.