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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you see the First boot screen, press pace and you will get the normal
text boot screen. You can now test the CD for defects. A slow burn and MD5
success will pretty much garuntee this but it's worth a test. The same
screen can test the ram.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Lane Lester <llester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Andrew Woodhead <
> andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Did you MD5 test the ISO?
>
>
> No, but I just did, and it's correct.
>
>
>> Did you burn as SLOWLY as you could?
>>
>
> Yes, 8.
>
>
>> Have you checked the CD for defects?
>>
>
> No, don't know how. How does one do that?
>
>
>> Have you tested your RAM for errors?
>>
>
> No, because I often install new distros, and I recently installed the
> Ubuntu Minimal CD Alpha 2 without difficulty.
>
> OTOH, my fairly new motherboard has an nVidia chipset, which sometimes
> causes problems.
>
> Lane
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Lane Lester <llester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Andrew. When the nomodeset didn't work, I tried that post's
>>> second option:
>>> i915.modeset=0 xforcevesa
>>> but it stopped at the same place, although with a small font.
>>>
>>> Lane
>>>
>>
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