Is my laptop an OS-racist?

Okay, so a while ago, I asked you guys about USB installing Ubuntu, but no matter what I did, it never worked.

I shrugged it off from a while, came back to it, still couldn't make it work. So, instead of using USB, I went with DVD. Guess what? Still refuses to work.

Is my computer an asshole or is there something else I can do? It's an Acer Extensa 4630Z with an Intel T3400 Pentium dual core and 2 GBs of RAM.

What is the stock OS on it?

What happens when you try to boot it?

Also describe what you mean when you say it doesn't work. Like it just goes into the standard OS instead of trying to install? That is boot priority.

It originally had Vista, then I put W7, now I'm just messing with it now that my mother has a new laptop.

Basically, it tries to load up Ubuntu, but just stops and freezes after a minute.

I boot up from DVD or USB, it tries to load up, but it freezes after a minute.

try a different distro and if it gives you keys to press for verbose mode, press them. And come back to tell use what was the last thing it said

Debian sound good?

sure or use Xubuntu if you are new to this

Not so sure about Debian or testing hardware. I'd try Manjaro or Fedora due to the latest drivers.

Has your laptop been attending mandatory sensitivity training seminars? Can you snap a picture of the screen with your phone while the machine is frozen so we can see the last thing to be displayed? Furthermore, you may have better luck with a different distro as suggested above. Maybe Fedora, OpenSuse, or hell even knopix?

You could try installing Korora on it. I had to try at least 20 times to install the OS on my laptop. Make sure your .iso is complete (check the md5 code). Good luck.

EDIT: I think when I successfully installed it, I had the disc drive ejected. You could try that if you get desperate.

This is what it looked like. I'm gonna try Fedora or Xubuntu later on or tomorrow, I've been busy with things lately.

Normally F12 or another key will bring up the terminal and you can watch that for an error code. your laptop's ram isn't much so it just might take a while for it to load.

See how the other distros go, ive seen Ubuntu freeze on certain hardware unless you pass some kernel options at boot (nomodeset for example)

Yes, your laptop is definitly racist.

Debian is great at installing on cheap hardware. You could probably get it to install on a 486