[Nottingham] Problem installing Linux on Acer Aspire E15

[dennis.furr at gmail.com]

You might consider preparing a USB drive instead of using a CD.  I’d be tempted to install as CLI only to start with then add the graphical interface of choice afterwards.  That way you can separate the installation phase and any problems associated from potential video driver issues.


We’re due a trip to Nottinghack and I’d be happy to help.  I’m going Friday evening and probably Saturday morning as I have a 3D print job that I want to run.  You are welcome to join me for both ore either of these sessions.






Denny





From: Godfrey Nix
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎26‎ ‎February‎ ‎2015 ‎11‎:‎47
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk





Hi,

Daughter has bought an Acer Aspire but has become totally infuriated with 
Windows 8 (no surprise there).

She has turned to me to install Linux, but I have encountered a problem.
I have managed to get into the BIOS settings and changed boot sequence to 
Legacy with CD-ROM as the first item. After rebooting it read the disk and 
displayed the different distros that were there. I have tried three different 
ones but all with the same result. As soon as I select the 'run' option (to 
run from CD instead of installing), the screen goes blank and I am clueless as 
to what progress is being made even though the disk drive is being accessed.

Any Ideas, or do I assume the few hundred squids are now wasted on a useless 
machine?

Regards,
Godfrey

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