Install freezes from the beginning

[wongtsz]

Good day everyone, I am new here, and also new with Linux Lite.
Recently, I try to install Linux Lite 3.8 onto my old netbook - Acer Aspire One with 2 GB RAM, Graphic card GMA 500.
Windows XP was installed, and when I boot it from USB/ DVD (extern), I can only reach the Linux Lite install menu, after I press enter it freezes; since I have also tried waiting for 5 hours, I am sure it wasn't processing.
The same fate when I try installing ubuntu MATE (install menu > Enter > game over).

From what I have searched online, it seems to be a graphic card failure; another case could be ACPI problem - could anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks in advance!

[bitsnpcs]

Hello wongtsz,

Welcome to the forum

There is answer for similar issue here -
https://askubuntu.com/questions/975874/u...aspire-one

[trinidad]

May or may not be graphics card. Whatever blobs are available are all in the i915 bundle and the live disk installer should be able to deal with that. You said XP which means it is unlikely a UEFI issue unless you are 64bit. Early Celerons have issues as well. What is your CPU? Will the live system boot from the dvd or USB? Not speaking of the installer, rather the live LL system.

TC

[wongtsz]

Thanks man! Really appreciate it.

Since I am no guru in this - how do I get the line 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/' ?

[wongtsz]

May or may not be graphics card. Whatever blobs are available are all in the i915 bundle and the live disk installer should be able to deal with that. You said XP which means it is unlikely a UEFI issue unless you are 64bit. Early Celerons have issues as well. What is your CPU? Will the live system boot from the dvd or USB? Not speaking of the installer, rather the live LL system.

TC

Thanks man! It is a 32 bit, CPU Intel Atom Z 520 (1.33 GHz); the live LL - my best try was to reach the 'feather' page, not even reaching the LL desktop.

[bitsnpcs]

I was not reaching desktop with LL after installing it, but it did work on the Live disc.
Is different computer, but here are the links of how it was solved -

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta...ng-ll-3-2/

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/video...tel-530hd/

Of which software did you make the USB Live ? - some software not so good for that.
I used this free software for making Live Linux USB from a Windows computer many times, every time working correctly for me -
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32di...p/download

[wongtsz]

I was not reaching desktop with LL after installing it, but it did work on the Live disc.
Is different computer, but here are the links of how it was solved -

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta...ng-ll-3-2/

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/video...tel-530hd/

Of which software did you make the USB Live ? - some software not so good for that.
I used this free software for making Live Linux USB from a Windows computer many times, every time working correctly for me -
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32di...p/download

Thanks bitsnpcs! I have tried the Tab option and replaced 'quiet splash' with 'nomodeset' - lots of texts rolling - then it freezes again.
Tried this routine three times already...

[bitsnpcs]

So the Linux Grub is installed now, or the Linux OS is installed, but it wont boot to the desktop, without using the usb stick ?
Or are you doing this using the usb stick ?

Have you checked the BIOS settings, set to "legacy" and not to UEFi ?
Also disable "fast boot" in BIOS ?

[Artim]

I had some trouble last time and had much better luck by not checking "update during installation" and not including the third-party codecs.  Adding them after installation was easy and didn't mess things up.

[wongtsz]

I had some trouble last time and had much better luck by not checking "update during installation" and not including the third-party codecs.  Adding them after installation was easy and didn't mess things up.

Hi RandomBoy, I can't even manage to get to that step, yet!