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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boot th CD, when you see the first boot screen press spacebar and select
check CD, you can also test your RAM here too



On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> If I recall, the routine for testing the CD that is on the CD will report
> failure.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers
>
>  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers>Has the work-around for it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Woodhead <
> andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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