Toshiba A505 6005 cant get ubuntu or any linux to operate

[Dumpy]

I a mjust starting using linux and my professor recomended Ubuntu for an operating system i have tried to download it to a disk and run it during the boot process it gets to where i have the choices on how to use then it freezes, same thing happens with fedora what do i need to do is there some setting that i am missing?

[reed9]

A lot of the time, freezes like this are related to your graphics card. With Ubuntu, try either the alternative install disc, and do a text based installation, or try it in Safe Graphics Mode.

If you have an intel based graphics card, you can also try turning off kernel mode setting. I'm not up on my Ubuntu, but I believe at the menu screen, you hit F6 for other options, then ESC to edit the boot line, then after the quiet splash bit, add

i915.modeset=0

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Its a Graphics Card problem only. As reed9 suggested already, Alternate Installation Disk works fine in all machines and its easy to fix Graphics Card problem after installation.
Alternate installer is text based and uses minimum resources of Graphics card. There is no difference in Regular and Alternate installer disk except installer type.

[Dumpy]

Hey Thanks alot for the help i am downloading the alternative right now hope it works

[Dumpy]

Thanks for the info i am trying it right now should i get a bigger graphics card and what should iget

[Dumpy]

how do iturn off the kernel mode setting