Linux newbie with Great Quality PC purchased from Frys with Thiz Linux pre-installed. Obtained Ubuntu 6.06.1 boot CD in Australia. Failed twice to boot & install. Stopped both times after "OK, booting the kernel" Following the Great Quality PC user manual, Un-installed Thiz Linux. Now Ubuntu boot goes thru to brown screen with 2 icons. One for example and one for install. Try the install, but failed twice to get past the third step. As soon as American English is picked for the keyboard. Hangs with the wait watch forever...
The CPU is AMD Duron 1103 MHz.
L1 Cache has 128K at speed of 6.763GB/sec.
L2 Cache has 64K at speed of 2.995GB/sec.
Memory has 96M at speed of 239 MB/sec.
The chipset is SiS 730
How to proceed from here?????
The recent discovery that the ubuntu system requirements indicate 256 M of memory versus my actual 96M appear to be the culprit. I'll try to cancel the thread.

My first instinct is to put the Ubuntu disc back in and instead of choosing Start/Install Ubuntu, choose "Verify Disc" or "Check install disc" or whatever it is. It'll take five minutes or so, but go through that and make sure that there aren't any errors on the disc. I once went on a wild goose chase trying to install Ubuntu when the disc itself was at fault.

If you do have an error on the disc, just reburn it at the lowest possible speed and avoid doing anything on your computer while it burns (just in case).

If the disc is good, somebody else here will have some idea. Good luck!

I had problems installing ubuntu on my computer (turn out my hard drive was bad)

Another option may be to try the - Ubuntu Alternate Install Disk -. Instead of running from the GUI it runs in a text format. I found it to be noob friendly.

FWIW, with 256mb RAM it took almost 3 hours to install and "Paused" several timed during the installation...It was very tempting to get mad and restart but I just walked away and made a sandwich...watch a movie.

Not exactly on topic, but I'm amazed at how far linux has come since the first time I tried it (Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 was the first distro that I could actually get running on my machine). Ubuntu makes it very easy. I even downloaded the latest Puppy Linux because I needed a small distro that fits entirely into RAM, and the latest version is many times more user-friendly than it used to be.

Even when a distro isn't noob-friendly, the online linux community is absolutely incredible!

These are great days to be a linux fan (and I'm sure it'll only get better!).

Hmm which is older Caldera 2.2 or RH 6.2

Anyway I just wanted to say are you sure your system only has 96 MB of ram? I thought the lowest installed ram being sold was at minimum 256 MB Especially if the processor is just over 1.Ghz. Maybe you have some bad ram, you should try the memtest on the install cd.

Good question... I just checked some release dates, and it seems that Caldera 2.2 and Redhat 6.0 were released at around the same time. It's going back to 1999, though (and I can't believe the leaps and bounds that linux has made since then!).

Good eyes catching that bit about only having 96 meg of ram. Maybe that's why he's having trouble.

I suggest you use the alternate cd to install. It's a text based install (no livecd) so it won't hog your machine's resources. Also, I'd use Xubuntu since it's much lighter on the system resources.