Newbie here. Got my hands on an old Samsung RV-411 laptop (was running on Win7 Home Premium) and thought of trying out Linux. Followed this website (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/migrating-from-windows-7-to-ubuntu/) to create bootable USB: - downloaded Ubuntu 16 LTS 64-bit - upon reboot, "Error: no suitable video mode found. Booting in blind mode" - a screen with option to check disk --> no error found - successfully tried on Ubuntu. So i went ahead with installation (removed Win7, removed previous partition HDD). Wifi was enabled during install - Completed installation, and removed USB stick and clicked restart - a black screen with magenta cursor first, but then turned white. And it stayed this way
So I thought that Ubuntu 16 is not compatible with my machine. So I repeated the above steps with ver 14.04. It asked if I wanted to run parallel with ver 16...which means it was successfully installed.
The following is my laptop spec: - video output nvidia GeForce 315M - CPU Core i3 2.4Ghz 3MB - 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
Any help is highly appreciated.