I have a great method to install a ubuntu system if the installer fails at certain point of time. 1.Boot the system using the live cd. 2.Mount the ext3 partition on which you want to install ubuntu. 3.Then format the entire destination partition. 4.There is a folder in the live cd tmp file system called casper. Browse through and copy the content of the package which look alike the linux system on the destination folder.(approximately it 1.5gb of data) 5.Open terminal and run command (sudo chroot /(folder where the dest partition was mounted) /bin/sh) This will give you the administrative rights on the new linux installation on the destination folder) 6.Create administrator group(sudo addgroup admin) 7.Create user with sudo rights (sudo adduser username admin) 8.Uninstall ubiquity and ubuntu-live grub(sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-live grub) 9.Install grub (sudo apt-get install grub) 10.sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Paste the following and modify according to partition conf # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hda3 UUID=b0e70b1d-d151-4a87-9069-196cede6f9ba / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/hda1 UUID=295D-1CE6 /media/hda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hda5 UUID=E849-1399 /media/hda5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hda6 UUID=D072-7535 /media/hda6 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hda7 UUID=29da4967-c10f-438d-ba05-c25e1e423b6c none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 11. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg It's done. It worked well on my system. I did this because the live installer was crashing again and again. -- Varun Mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ http://freedel.in - September 16-17, 2006
