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    Asus K40IN cannot install Linux

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by hotienvu, Oct 5, 2009.

  1. hotienvu

    hotienvu Newbie

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    Hi, I have bought this laptop 3 months ago and really like it except for one problem i.e. I cannot install linux on it. Every time I tried to install, the installer said there's problem with the SATA and asked me to reinitialize the hard driver which i dont want at all. I have tried with Fedora 11 and Centos 5.3 but all resulted in the same thing.

    I'm currently running Windows 7. Here are my comp specs:

    CPU: T6400 core 2 duo 2.0 Ghz
    Nvidia Geforce G102 512Mb

    250 Gb SATA Harddrive

    Any help is appreciated. I really really need Linux :(
     
    hotienvu, Oct 5, 2009
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  2. Reaper05

    Reaper05 Notebook Evangelist

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    you go into the bios and find the hard drive options and set it to compatible instead of enhanced
    then after installed and fully updated go back in and set it back to enhanced or you wont be able to boot into 7
     
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    hotienvu Newbie

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    Hi Reaper05,
    Thanks for ur help. I did like u said, but the problem is still there. The Linux anacoda said the sda volume is unreadable thus cannot be installed any partition blahblah and ask me to reinitialize :(
     
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    Reaper05 Notebook Evangelist

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    ok go into windows and right click on computer go to manage. then select storage>disk managment then select any partition that has enough space for you linux install right click select shrink volume and allocate the appropriate size like 25600=25gb then after that is done. select the new partition and delete it do not format. now try the install good luck
    also you may have a bad burn try another distro like ubuntu or open suse
    also check this out
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=399743
     
    Reaper05, Oct 5, 2009
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