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Attempting to put Ubuntu 11.10 on my new PC (Alienware Aurora R3) and installation fails despite how I attempt to install. Have tried three ways:

  • installing from Win7 with Wubi
  • installing from cd
  • booting into "demo" version

Installing from Wubi leads to it getting stuck at a purple screen (with two small icons at bottom), after rebooting it stops at the same point as attempts to do a "real" install. I've tried leaving it here for hours and it's definitely stuck/stopped at this point. Which seem to be modprobe related as seen by the last two lines here:

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And what will happen if you unplug your mouse usb dongle? – Andrejs Cainikovs Dec 7 '11 at 20:17
Removing the mouse dongle resulted in a slightly different error but stopping at about the same point, I also have a Logitech wireless keyboard so I replaced that and tried again using the standard [wired] keyboard and mouse that came with the PC and resulted in this: ubuntuone.com/1cu3bTWokwtYJXLycvr0dF – Exupery Dec 7 '11 at 21:40
Resolved. A friend suggested using the LTS version and that was able to complete the install process just fine. – Exupery Dec 8 '11 at 1:55

closed as too localized by Luis Alvarado♦ Mar 14 at 16:05

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