{"id":606,"date":"2011-12-30T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T02:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2011-12-30T20:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T02:57:33","slug":"installing-ubuntu-on-a-dell-inspiron-1501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/installing-ubuntu-on-a-dell-inspiron-1501\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 1501"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I did a tech update, but nothing like doing OS installs on a Friday night. My nearly 5 year old laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1501, is on its last legs. The only thing I use it for is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDAQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fboinc.berkeley.edu%2F&amp;ei=yHX-TqTZJoXVgAev5L2XAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8LcpB9h3scxAuy0pKiBkAAA7TiQ\" target=\"_blank\">BOINC<\/a>, so I figured that installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu<\/a> would give it a bit more breathing room than Windows. However, when I tried to run the install, I got a screen full of crazy colored vertical lines. Doing a BIOS update did not help. However, a forum thread did lead me to the right solution: setting the nomodeset option before install.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to install Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop and you keep running into the crazy colored vertical lines, during the install, hit F6, then select \u201cnomodeset\u201d. Presto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I did a tech update, but nothing like doing OS installs on a Friday night. My nearly 5 year old laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1501, is on its last legs. The only thing I use it for is BOINC, so I figured that installing Ubuntu would give it a bit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/installing-ubuntu-on-a-dell-inspiron-1501\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installing Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 1501<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[192,21,191],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-2","tag-inspiron-1501","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}