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Hi guys I am completely new to Ubuntu/Linux aside from installing 12.04 onto an old Toshiba Tecra and have loved it ever since.

I just purchased a new laptop, with AMD A10-4600m with 7660g graphics, as it shows in the title and I cannot get 12.04 64-bit to install on it. It freezes at various stages and crashes and I am unable to continue.

If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated.

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Do you get any error messages or dose it just freeze ? Also make sure to only use the direct download iso from ubuntu.com, sounds like a doddgey disc. – mark kirby Aug 7 '12 at 19:40
No error messages just hard lock ups I was installing from a usb disc will try a fresh download and try again will report back when I get home from work and will also try it on a cd – mark Aug 7 '12 at 20:45
update I tried a different .iso and tried on a disc and I was able to install but upon booting up after 5-10 sec the system runs extremely slow and locks up to the point where I have to hard reset... not sure what to do... I was able to enter safe mod and go to root command line and run fix packages, everything seems to download and install correctly but once I get back to the desktop it freezes and hard lock up occurs again... disabling my wireless seems to delay this from happening not sure why any advise on where to go from here? – mark Aug 8 '12 at 20:36
I would post a new question, something like "Ubuntu freezes straight after boot toshiba s855d-00u" sorry cant help more but will look around for a fix for you. – mark kirby Aug 8 '12 at 20:53
thanks will post a new question – mark Aug 8 '12 at 20:54

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