I am trying to install Ubuntu on my old Amilo and something is wrong; it sorts of boot up into a white screen. It's regardless of distros, I have tried all the launches they have had the last few years. I cannot remember it was such a big deal when I first tried it years ago, but I remember I had a few technical issues.
What happens is that when I boot up from CD I get the usually options to either "try with no changes to your system", "install on your computer". This part works fine, I can even check the CD for flaws and it seems to work fine, and screen shows just fine. When I go to the next step either hard drive install or as live CD it goes into a white screen, and gets stuck there. What could be the cause of this?
I have Windows 7 that works fine, and it originally came with XP SP2.
Could this be faulty hardware like some error with video card? Driver issue perhaps?
It is much the same whatever I boot up in, Fedora or Ubuntu. I can boot up in Puppy Linux but I have major issues with fan control and over heating with this distro. As the situation is with latest Lubuntu I cannot boot up at all, and I used to be able to boot up at least with a couple of attempts.
Any idea on how to go about this?