[Leaplist] Debian on my Laptop

Phil Barnett philb at philb.us
Sat May 3 23:24:28 EDT 2008


On Saturday 03 May 2008 06:06:26 pm Ram K. Singh wrote:
> I have been trying to load Debian on my HP laptop. All
> goes well and no problem appears. At the end when
> option comes to boot the computer from hard drive, the
> system goes through the motion of start up but never
> comes up with desktop to allow me to interact and use
> the system.
>
> I need help!!!!!

Before you go crazy, try a different distro. Some distributions just don't 
jibe with some hardware.

Try Linux Mint 4.0, which is Debian based and also try Fedora 8, which is 
RedHat based. That will give you a better understanding of the problem.

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