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Hi,

This is Ashok.I am not able to install linux in my PC.
The hardware specifications are:
intel Dual core,945 mother board,4GB DDR2 RAM,160GB hard disk
I have tried ubuntu,redhat 9,fedora 10 to 15 versions
fedora 10 was installing but it was strucking after opening.

can you any one please answer this query...

with regards
Ashok S

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by seanferd

Given the specs, nearly any distro should install.

by charles bundy

needs to be flipped in BIOS. (Assuming hard drive and memory check out OK)

by chandrastudy

Do you have any error message? Or can you explain more like during which part of installation its failing or never ever installation starts etc...

by dldorrance

Here we use an Intel 945GCLX2 mini-ITX motherboard with 2 GB RAM and 2 SATA hard drives and an optical drive. Works fine with Mint Linux, Ubuntu, Mint Debian Fedora and numerous other linux distros I have tried on it. What exactly is the problem?

You stated, "fedora 10 was installing but it was strucking after opening". Please define
"strucking", as it is not an English word. Did you mean "sticking"? If so what was sticking?

by charles bundy

I assumed "strucking" meant that things were OK using BIOS int13 for install but went off into the weeds as soon as native SATA drivers tried to load on inital OS boot.

Hence my SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) to check SATA native mode setting in BIOS with the caveat that it is not a HW problem.

by gdburton9

Given the number of different distros you have been trying, I would suspect that there is a hardware problem getting in the way, somewhere. Have you had any other operating systems working properly on this hardware? Have you tried running the Memory test (memtest86+)? This is normally available as a boot option on live CDs (Ubuntu certainly).
Also you could cut out a good percentage of install problems by trying to install Ubuntu server. As this makes few demands on the video system, you may find that it installs easily.
Even if you eventually want a desktop GUI system, this may be a useful step to identifying the root cause of the standard install problem.
A common problem with GUI installs occurs if your graphics card is capable of higher resolution operation than you monitor/screen can display. If this is the case look for the "safe" or "basic VGA" graphics option.at the beginning of the install stage. (Search for "ubuntu safe graphics" for more details.)
Hope that this helps, otherwise you will have to try & describe more specifically what problems you are hitting with a specific installation attempt. Limit yourself to one distro for now. Record the last stage the installation gets to. Use the live CD to look at the hard disk after an install attempt to try and find logs that were created, during the install attempt.

Hope this helps.

by samiddala

Hi,
Thank for your quick reply.
I have already installed windows,now i m installing in dual mode.The fedora10 was installed.
when i am rebooting the desktop showing two selected options and when i entered for fedora,it was booting and showing all icons.
when i opened a terminal and entering into super user mode,its fine.After that the mouse operations are not happening.is problem with the GUI?

with regards
Ashok

by markp24

Hi defintily send more info, as stated above its most likly a bios setting.

by dldorrance

The motherboard in question uses an Intel (verses Nvidia) graphics chip, which may not work with some linux open source video drivers. The result is no video. To test this you have several options. The first is to obtain a Linux Mint CD, which will install on Intel graphics. The second is to install Puppy Linux and when prompted, choose VESA graphics. Do not choose XORG graphics which is the default for many Linux distributions and may not work. For other linux distributions look on the setup screen for "alternate video" or some other choice for installing the Live CD.

by charles bundy

Yep "strucking" could mean no video :). Can always try for a text terminal. should drop you back to X11.

by charles bundy

Hmmm. let's try [CTRL][ALT][F1] for a text terminal, [CTRL][ALT][F7] for X11 display.

by charles bundy

Except my quick test on FC14 has [F1] being X11 and [F2] onward as TTY text terminals...

by gdburton9

Definitely sounds like GUI driver problems as dldorrance@ mentioned. Intel 945 chipset, is not as well supported, but should work with limited VGA / VESA settings or try Mint.
Alternatively go the route I suggested with a server install first.
I have seen some people suggesting Debian Sid has great support for Intel 945 chipset.

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