Adam wrote: > Would anyone have a good guess at what might be going on here? I'm stumped. > > I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my parents' computer, as dual-boot with > WinXP. It runs WinXP without any hardware problems. I resized and > created partitions using Partition Manager from within WinXP. That was > one resized NTFS partition for WinXP, one ext3 partition for Ubuntu > (everything but /home), one ext3 partition for /home, one ext3 partition > for migration to the next distro, one Linux swap partition, one FAT32 > partition for sharing data, and about 25G unallocated. I forget the > exact sizes of the partitions, but I'm pretty sure I made the Linux > partitions big enough. > > Attempt #1 to install Ubuntu 8.04, using a burned copy of the ISO I > downloaded, got partway (27%?) through "copying files," then stopped > with an error message along the lines of "Your CD is defective or your > CD drive is defective or your HD is defective." (I'm sorry, I don't > have the exact text here, but it's copied down on paper by their > computer.) Okay, I figured, defective CD somehow. > > Last Saturday I brought a pressed (not burned) Ubuntu 8.04.1 CD there. > First I tried the disc's own "check integrity of this disc" on the > computer I was going to install it on, and it reported that the disc was > correct. So, I tried to install it again, and at about the same point > it stopped with the same error message. > > Since the disc was able to verify itself, I assume the CD and the CD/DVD > drive are not problems. I tried 'e2fsck -cc' on the partitions I was > going to use for /home and for / (everything else), and no errors were > found. I tried 'mke2fs -cc -j' on those partitions, still no errors > found. I figure that eliminates the HD as the problem. By that point I > was stumped. I started the Memtest program on the Ubuntu CD, and went > home, where I was able to install 8.04.1 from a burned copy of that > pressed CD with no problems. Later I was told that after four complete > passes, Memtest had found zero memory errors. > > So I think I've eliminated the CD, the optical drive, the hard drive, > and the memory as problems, but there's still a problem somewhere. Can > anyone offer a reasonable guess? Thanks /very/ much in advance for any > suggestions, as I'm stumped. Weather permitting, I'll be there again > Saturday to try again.
The only suggestion I can offer in a case like this is that you try to dig down into the install logfiles and see of you can get a better idea of exactly what the problem is. That said, you can burn a lot of time on things like this and sometimes there is just no good solution, so (assuming that it's easy for you to burn a copy of an older version now) it wouldn't be a bad idea to take John's implicit advice and just try an older version first. > > Adam > > P.S. Happy holidays to all! > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Dec 3 - Lightning Talks & Swap Session > > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no concept that is more demeaning to the human spirit than the notion that our freedom must be limited in the interests of our own protection. ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 3 - Lightning Talks & Swap Session
