On Tuesday 19 February 2013 11:42:57 Schooner did opine: > Hi Gene > > I have had huge issues with the 12.xx install, it almost prevented my > doing any testing > for John of the Xenomai builds, until I worked around it. > > In addition to network resolution issues, the installer has real > problems with many HDD > setups. This is quite well documented in help forums for Ubuntu. > Single 100Gb drive, old 10.04-4 LTS install.
> If it does not find just a single HDD with maybe Windoze and an older > Linux install, it can blow a fuse. > > My machine has 3.5TB of space over 4 HDDs and approx 35 logical > partitions, so it just sat at the > 'Preparing to Install' graphic and hung IOW, don't even try on this machine, it sounds a lot like that one. > I found that on the Ubuntu site there is an mini(mal).iso for 12.xx, > which is similar to the Debian net install .iso > It just contains the bare bones to get going and downloads the rest. > > As far as I can tell it IS the debian ncurses based installer and it > just works. URL? > It resolved my partitions and network in no time at all and installed > first time (12.11) > The only thing it did not like was my telling it not to install a boot > loader, but this was so near the > end of the process, I just Ctrl Alt Del out of it to finish it. I'd druther have the LTS, but its appearing from the screens I negotiated to get the 12.04-2 LTS for amd64 iso, that they are going to paywall it by the time the next LTS comes around, if not before. > (The 12.11 system works fine with the Xenomai debs, you are installing a > new kernel onto it in any case.) > > Worth a try > Ok, will do. With all the problems with 12.04, you would think they'd do a respin? > regards Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> BOFH excuse #171: NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
