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["Prof. John C Nash" <nashjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A suggestion I made in a direct email but may be worth sharing is to use an installation
on an external drive. I have an old "40G" laptop drive I put in a cheap USB case and have
Ubunutu 10.04, Kubuntu 10.10 and Linux Mint Debian in 3 partitions on it. I find I can
usually boot on machines other than the one used for installation. So install on one where
there isn't a problem, then try on the UL31. This at least verifies whether it is a distro
or an installation issue. I hope not the former, but have had install problems myself with
Ubuntu on one of my machines. In fact, the one the external drive is usually attached to.

JN


On 02/23/2011 11:08 AM, David Neeley wrote:
> Or perhaps try it the other way, with the Intel integrated graphics enabled. That seems
> relatively well supported by Linux in most variants--it certainly works fine in my UL30a.
> 
> Then, you could try installing an updated driver for the Nvidia and re-enabling it once
> everything is running well with the install.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> On 02/23/2011 04:09 PM, Victor A. Stoichita wrote:
>> Not sure about UL31. Does it have two video cards like the ul30 ? In that case, you may
>> try disabling one of them in the bios. For UL30 the alternative is between something
>> like "windows7/Vista" and "other". With the "other" checked, it turns off completely the
>> intel card, leaving just the nvidia one. It may help you installing the system in the
>> first place.
>> Cheers,
>> Victor
>>
>> On 22 February 2011 19:20, frauke <kttywu@xxxxxxxx <mailto:kttywu@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Forwarding this to mailing list.
>>
>>     -------- Original Message --------
>>     Subject: Problem installing Ubuntu 10.10
>>     Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:49:02 -0000
>>     From: jag3068 <jag3068@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jag3068@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>     Reply-To: jag3068 <jag3068@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jag3068@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>     To: kttywu <kttywu@xxxxxxxx <mailto:kttywu@xxxxxxxx>>
>>
>>     Here come the words that probably fill you all with dread... I am new to
>>     Linux! Well, fairly new at least. I have been running Ubuntu 10.10 on my
>>     old laptop for a couple of months now and love it. However, I just got a
>>     new Asus U31JG and I cannot install Ubuntu at all. There have been
>>     various issues in the process that have absorbed a lot of time but I
>>     won't bore you with the details. At present, trying to install 10.10
>>     from a LiveCD, the installation process goes right through to the point
>>     where a dialogue box appears asking if I want to try ubuntu or install
>>     it. Almost immediately the box disappears and the install stops at the
>>     purple splash screen with no cursor visible. I understand that this is a
>>     video card problem but can't find a work around that actually works.
>>
>>     Tried doing an F6 and installing with the 'nomodeset' and 'ACPI=off'
>>     options but, basically, the same result (except that it is the 'choose
>>     your language screen' that disappears almost instantly).
>>
>>     Also tried booting an alternate iso from USB drive but I just couldn't
>>     get that to work.
>>
>>     If anyone has any words of advice, I'd be really grateful. Thanks.
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