KDE Live CD install issue

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Okay so I downloaded and burned the KDE LiveCD to a CD-R. Everything went okay with booting from the CD at the start. When I get to where it asks me to install I click install and get this screen

http://i.imgur.com/z1NGl.jpg?1

for about three seconds, then it pops this up:

http://i.imgur.com/pOpIQ.jpg?1

then goes to a black screen, and I have to turn off my computer. :confused:

So, what am I doing wrong? [Sorry for awful pictures, but ipod cameras arenā€™t great]

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Try another CD and burn it at slow speed.

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What video card do you have?

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i checked the md5 on the first cd, and it was wrong, so i re-downloaded it checked it. All good, still got the same problem with normal install. Some googling told me to use ā€œnomodesetā€ and that seems to help somewhat, the screen does not get the weird lines but will just sit on the picture of the green gecko for a long while eventually going to a black screen with a mouse and nothing happens. I also tried doing a safe install or whatever its called and that didnā€™t seem to fix the problem either. My computer specs are as follows:
HP Dv6
6gb RAM
AMD A8-3500M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.50GHz
Windows 7 is on the computer, but I did make a spot for OpenSUSE so I can dual boot (if this ever works)

I hope that helps.
As a last resort Iā€™ll attempt using text mode, but Iā€™m pretty new to some of this so I was avoiding that. :X

Try another CD and burn it at slow speed.

I set the speed as slow as it would go.

Any other advice would be very helpful though ;D

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Run the media check though you might run into the same graphics problem. Which Radeon chip?

text mode is not that much different just text instead of fancy graphics.

if you use text mode you may have to use nomodeset at the reboot. once you install the propritary driver you should have no more graphics problem.

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Run the media check though you might run into the same graphics problem. Which Radeon chip?

text mode is not that much different just text instead of fancy graphics.

if you use text mode you may have to use nomodeset at the reboot. once you install the propritary driver you should have no more graphics problem.

Well, I tried the media check with nomodeset and it gets to a point where it shows one drive, if I click the mouse it makes the screen go black. I tried text mode and it still just goes to a black screen. So does that mean it failed the media check or passed? How do I stop the screen from going black? If I were to download the DVD install and get a dvd instead of a cd would that help? Anything that I need to do at this point Iā€™m willing to try. :cry:

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This looks to be a notebook. the HP page indicates it may ship with one of 2 different video chips. Saying which may help. Someone may have experience with it. Me I use NVIDA so donā€™t know about AMD chips.

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Saying which may help.

o_o I thought I did, guess Iā€™m going crazy tonight. Anyway Radeon HD 6620G

and if i remember correctly there were driver issues when using this card in a laptop. But again I could just be insane right now.

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Update! (sorry for double posting but it will not let me just edit my last post)

So after booting with nomodeset with install in a higher resolution, I got the black screen for a few seconds then the installer poped up and is working now. :smiley: But a different question so to kill two birds with one stone, Iā€™ve decided it would be cool to put OpenSUSE on my 200gb external hdd. Now I think partitions are right but really am not sure and donā€™t wanna screw something up, when I got to the disk section it offered me an option to place it on the unallocated space on my external (about 100gb) so if I just go with this will it work? anything else good?

I tried following this guide but everything seems different
SDB:Installation on external hard drive - openSUSE

so heres a picture (yay ipod) of what its set too.
http://i.imgur.com/QMDVV.jpg

Will this allow me to run OpenSUSE off my external hard drive? Will this hurt my windows system?

Iā€™m extremely sorry for my constant noob questions

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I would not try using it on an external HD. It usually ends in disaster for inexperienced users.
Donā€™t rush in to this. Installing Linux is easy, but your dependance on Windows is going to make it difficult because Windows doesnā€™t really want you to have other OSā€™s.

You said you had made room, did you mean on your internal HD?
Show us a picture of the partitions on your internal HD
You need to follow this guide: https://picasaweb.google.com/107564133608385811033/121_kde_LiveCD_Install
And when you get to the advanced partitioner take a picture

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On 2012-04-29 01:06, kkiikki wrote:

> So
> does that mean it failed the media check or passed?

Neither.

> How do I stop the
> screen from going black?

Thatā€™s the problem.

> If I were to download the DVD install and get a
> dvd instead of a cd would that help?

Unsure.

ā€“
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 ā€œCeladonā€ at Telcontar)

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Thanks for all your help guys, after hours of googling and a trip to Tim Hortens i finally got it. Its working now with updated drivers running off of my external using the windows mbr at startup. Honestly at first I thought i might have ruined my computer ;p Thanks again for all your help with my questions. I promise Iā€™ll probably be back to ask more noob questions later.