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post #1 of 11
5/14/05 at 11:25am
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I downloaded and burned 2 iso, the r2 and r5. Both of these discs, I get a black screen after the boot prompt.

When there is boot, I press enter, some white word on black background appears, and the screen turns black!

Need help!
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post #2 of 11
5/14/05 at 11:52am
did you check the checksums on the disks?
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post #3 of 11
5/14/05 at 1:54pm
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Whats checksum?
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post #4 of 11
5/14/05 at 2:49pm
md5sum yourdebiancd.iso will give you a long code
go back to where you downloaded the isos and you will see 2 m5sum files .

then compare the codes you get

it should be the same..
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post #5 of 11
5/14/05 at 3:20pm
although checksums are usually not a problem, it is a worthy check. out of roughly 40 linux cds i ever d/l burned, i only had a corruption due to mismatched checksums once. another time i had an issue because nero cripled the iso while trying to burn :\
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post #6 of 11
5/14/05 at 4:18pm
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But why is the screen black after typing enter?
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post #7 of 11
5/14/05 at 4:30pm
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OK, I tried it on my desktop and it worked.... on the laptop, it doesn't!!
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post #8 of 11
5/14/05 at 8:48pm
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Originally Posted by Schmohey
OK, I tried it on my desktop and it worked.... on the laptop, it doesn't!!
Try adding vga=791 at the boot prompt when you go to install. That worked with Kubuntu on my 3790. (I had the same problem initially)

Louis
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post #9 of 11
5/15/05 at 6:16am
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I plugged my laptop to an external monitor. It worked. Everything installed, but I can't get my nic to work because the kernels are too old. When I made new kernels, and loaded, the only thing that work is the cursor flashing

Like this one " _ ". "_" flashes... no text...
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post #10 of 11
5/16/05 at 12:43am
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Anybody know where to get the audio driver for the 3790?
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post #11 of 11
5/16/05 at 6:12pm
Hmm... just curious, but why did you choose stock debian? There are so many jokes out there about how old it is I'd say, grab a ubuntu CD, and give that a try, because that is essentially a very new debian. Or if you don't like ubuntu, you can try morphix, which afaik is another debian-based distro. Both of these are newer, and hence detect hardware better, so I may be worth a try...
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