xubuntu won't install on e-machine

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06 Oct 2009, 9:26 am

I have an older e-Machine 633ids which originally came with Windows ME. I upgraded the memory to 384MB and tried to install Xubuntu. All I got was a bunch of errors. Any help.

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06 Oct 2009, 9:40 am

Need more information sir.

Does a liveCD work? Can you install on a similar machine and move the hard drive? Linux wont complain about that like windows does.

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06 Oct 2009, 11:04 am

gamefreak, E-machines are pretty proprietary to their windows OS, have your tried flashing the BIOS and updating bios to latest version then putting in the xubuntu??

another idea, (edited in after initially sending this post to wrongplanet server) have you reformatted the hard drive, are you trying to do a dual boot?? try on a new (unformatted) drive?? some things work better after installing new drive (less errors) about the errors, what specific errors are you running into??

hope this helps,

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06 Oct 2009, 12:28 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

Need more information sir.

Does a liveCD work? Can you install on a similar machine and move the hard drive? Linux wont complain about that like windows does.

sudo errors involving the Bios. Live CD doesn't work either.

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