I've been palying around with installing edgy from an .iso file on a machine without a CD-ROM.Looks like the initrd.gz file provided as part of the edgy hd-media install doesn't recognize any of the edgy .iso files (ubuntu, xubuntu...)The installer boots fine from the vmlinuz & initrd.gz files, ...
I am brand new to Ubuntu so bare with me. I read everything I thought I needed to know prior to install yet my install fails at 99% when doing post somthing or other on hdb6. No error, just locks up. Screens stays and can't move mouse. Here is what I can tell you.Machine and EnvironmentVista 32bitX8 ...
Hi, I'm having problems with grub:I'm trying to install 10.10 x32 server, on a machine with the HW Raid-5. And install fails on Bootloader setup :/, so I continue with installation, and everything finishes fine. When machine boots, it obviously (since grub failed to install) says insert bootable med ...
Using the Alternate CD to install Ubuntu on an external hard drive at the partitioning phase the install fails. (I have 3 partitions already, all blank. 20gb ext3, 474gb NTFS (for windows), 6gb swap (Supposed to be 2, but I don't know how that happened) )When I set the 20gb ext3 as the root file sys ...
Could someone please help as I am unable to install 10.04 onto my PC.I'm running Win7 and want to install 10.04 as dual boot but the installtion keeps failing. When I boot from the CD the install fails with the following error "The installation encountered an unrecoverable error, a desktop sess ...
Okay, this one is really over my head. I had 9.04 install on a dual proc home built system that was running fine until a recent update wiped out grub. Since I have all my data backed up, I decided just to install 10.04. I select Use Entire Disk but when Ubuntu tries to install, I get this error:The ...
Live CD install fails at " Starting hot plug system. "Any ideas as to why ? Running a plain vanilla HP Pavilion a705w from WalMart!Email response to [email protected] ...
I have trouble installing bmpx (the new beep media player x) on my ubuntu 5.10 x86_64 system. So far i cannot see any package in the repositories, but there is one for i386 mentioned at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76796&highlight=bmpxHowever, i cannot install any of the packages ...
I downloaded the ubuntu-6.06.1-alternate-i386.iso today, the MD5 matched perfectly as reported in K3B, and the disk passes the integrity check with no problems. Burned at 8x- the minimum that media or recorder would allow according to K3B.I am trying to install Ubuntu as the sole OS on a Toshiba A35 ...
Greetings, fellow ubuntians, er, ubuntoids, um, ubunteros! :)Trying to slap ubuntu on the wifey's old RedHat machine, but not getting past the unpacking stage on the installer CD.When I use the installer to check the media, it comes back all smiley-faces.But during the install, I get the following e ...
hello, I am having trouble installing Ubuntu Netbook using Wubi on an Asus Eee PC 1001P with Windows 7 Starter.After a long time downloading the ISO, I get this message:---------------------------Ubuntu Netbook Installer---------------------------An error occurred:Could not retrieve the required ins ...
On a system currently running Ubuntu 7.10, the Hardy Heron 8.04 update fails to detect any hard drives at all. As I am using the affected system to write this, there is no apparent problem with the hard drives. The system is using the PC x86 32 bit desktop distributions in both cases. Gutsy Gibbon c ...
I have amd64 and i want to install the cairo-dock. The problem is that i don't want to use the terminal to type commands, i want to run run it straight(.deb package maybe?). I read this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CairoDock but i can't really understand what i have to do(i tried to install wit ...
I had to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit LTS because 9.04 support ended and I installed Mobile Media Converter 1.7.0 and now any time I try to convert any file either video to audio or audio to a different audio file type it fails with the error message below in red and on the support page for MMC so ...
everyone and thanks in advance for the help!I've been wanting to try Linux for some time and all the articles I read indicated that it was relatively straight forward (:)), so I thought I'd try it on a new build:Gigabyte GA-MA74G-S2H mobo (740G chip/ SB700 southbridge)AMD X2 5000WD6400AACSPioneer DV ...
I have set up a copy of 8.04 on my server so I can network boot, via PXE, run and install much the same as with the standard desktop CD. Most of it works. I can get PCs boot in to the standard Ubuntu desktop that appears like you see from the CD and it works well as a workstation. However when I run ...
I just finished a default install of ubuntu 5.10 but it seems perl-doc is not installed. when I enter perldoc perldoc instead of getting a list of information related to perl documents I am told I need to install the perl-doc package. I then run:apt-get install perl-doc but this fails I am told the ...
I have searched the suggested forums with no help.I have installed Debian, Slackware, SUSE, Arch, and Gentoo successfully form non-live-CD's (graphical installs I guess they're called.) All have had grub installed on the root partition.When I install grub into the root partition on these distro's th ...
EDITED: Probably an fstab issue, files attached.I have looked in the previous forum topics but I cannot answer this issue.I have installed my system following the FakeRaidHowto (very good document).I cannot now get my system to start up, The grub loader works and brings up the ubuntu splash screen, ...
I'm trying to install Edgy Eft from the Desktop Live CD onto a dmraid RAID 1+0 (Mirror + Stripe) Promise FastTrak TX2000 on a dual Athlon MP server.I've followed the instructions in the FakeRAIDHowto (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto) and the modifications to the process in DMRAID 1.0 ...
Installing 6.10 on a year 2000 MicronPC RS2100. 192MB Ram. Windows ME installed (which I want to wipe out as I don't need it).Booting off the CD on the DVD drive (won't boot off the CD-RW drive). When it comes to the Ubuntu install menu and I hit enter on the Install item, it tries to boot off the A ...
I am a present Ubuntu user. At the moment I have two HDs set up as follows:120 GBExt3 formatUbuntu Installed on itDrive is dieing 40GBFormated FAT32Contains backed-up foldersMy plan is to purchase a new 120GB HD within a week to replace my main failing one. I have copied all important files off of i ...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/412316Basically, if you do a netboot install, and do a 'targeted' kernel install, then the install will fail due to dependancy issues and dpkg not being able to configure some packages. Anybody else run into this issue? Is anyone able to test it? I have a few t ...
Hi, new to linux only installed it last weekend but my initial findings are really good.I have seen 64bit problems with Quake3 before but wondered if they had been solved. I have copied the .pak files into /usr/local/games/Quake3/baseq3and downloaded the latest point release from ID.When I run the p ...
Somebody gave me a desktop pc with Vista, so I decided to try Ubuntu 10:10. I downloaded the desktop version and burned it to a cd. I first tried the "Try It Out" option of booting from the cd, and everything worked well. No problems with wireless, sound or anything.That inspired me to ins ...
I am a complete novice with Ubuntu. I have just spent 4 hours trying to install 9.10 and failing.The install runs fine, goes to reboot and comes up with 'device not found, press any key'I have a suspicion I may know what it happening but not sure how to work around. I am using a second machine and h ...
Extremely new to Ubuntu as mostly used Windows and now a Mac.The problem is that when I try to install 9.10 (64bit for AMD) the install halts on page 4: Partition details.There is no partition shown!How do I get the install to see my HDD partitions.My PC specs are:-AMD Athlon 3200+ASUS A8V-MX Mother ...
I was installing Jaunty Jakalope an d everything went just fine until the actual install begins. It fails and says that it could not unmount the CD rom. However, this netbook does not have a CD rom, so how am I supposed to install it? ...
HiI am experiencing a failure to install after reboot to ubuntu following a wubi install. I am using wubi to install ubuntu 8.10 on drive e: Windows XP is installed on drive c:If I switch on verbose reporting during ubuntu start-up the system informs me that it cannot identify either (s)ata drive 1 ...