Quoting Louis Gidney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > After losing my Ubuntu 8.04 setup owing one of > my two hard drives failing, I have just started > the process of installing a freshly downloaded > v8.04 which I hope to put in an empty partition > (already formatted ext3) on my remaining 80GB drive. > > I'm pretty confident that the CD is sound, > > I'm doing this from a rather sick v.6.06 Dapper, > and I get the following following message at once: > > ------------------------------------------------ > The following problems were found on your system: > ------------------------------------------------ > E: Sub-process gpgv returned an error code (2) > W: Signature verification failed > for:/media/cdrecorder/dists/hardy/Release.gpg > ------------------------------------------------ > > I'm pretty confident the CD is sound, > > Is this message most likely to be caused by a > fault on the CD ---or by my faulty 6.06 setup? > > I don't know what "Signature" means, here, > > ( I have no disc "W:" )
Hi, The "W:" is the error message, not a "W" drive - Linux doesn't assign drives letters like windows does. I'd suggest running the following commands from a terminal: sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude upgrade then re-run the CD installer. HTH, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
