Just tried to install Ubuntu

[QueZart]

the 25% mark in installing Repositoy?

Dunno I waitd for ever and it did not do anything after 25%

Using the DVD Install/Live

Actually booted to the live portion now cuase xp boot is fubared..

Any suggestions?

 

[QueZart]

Tried again same result

The screen sayz

Configuring Apt - at the Top

and Setting Up Primary Installation Repository - at the Bottom

No One?

 

[drag]

sounds like the dvd you burned is bad. That's usually the problem with cdrom based installs.

If your Windows XP partition is still intact and your boot loader is messed up you can recover it using the recovery console features and the fixmbr command on a Windows XP recovery disk. Look fixmbr up on the MS knowledge base or google.

Try a netinstall cdrom or reburn the dvd making sure not to have any buffer underruns or anything like that.

 

[xcript]

It looks like many people are experiencing the same problem.

 

[GeekDrew]

Hrmmm... I had that problem when I was installing Ubuntu, but I didn't see the thread that xcript linked (and I just installed it about a month or so ago I think). I couldn't figure it out... even burned another copy of the install media (and the ISO checksum matched). For the heck of it, I decided to swap my CD-RW drive in place for my DVD-RW drive... (or was it the other way around?) Anyway, I eventually discovered that one drive would repeatedly fail to install, stopping at random points during the install (not necessarily at 25%, as noted in the linked thread), and the other drive would have no problem at all.

 

[Mesix]

I've had luck with making a new CD.

 

[TGS]

If you can boot from the CD and mount your /boot partition.

Use a text editor on /boot/grub/grub.conf

make the follow additions to the file:

default 1

# Fallback to the first entry.
fallback 0

title Windows 2000
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive


# For booting Linux
title Linux
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.whatever root=/dev/hda8

Depending on your partitioning, the first number in the (hd#,#) is the physical disk. The second is the partition. So just change the two entries to reflect where your linux /boot is and where your C: drive is.

That should get you back to being able to boot windows, and you can boot into linux when you get your installation squared away.


Also the link mentions some possible fixes, but as a rule of thumb I try to md5 hash iso images, and burn at low speeds as a precaution. No use having corrupt files, especially on core OS files.

 

[QueZart]

Thanx for the Info TGS..

Burning a New CD on Slowest speed fixed it BTW. My New CD Installs flawlessly

 

[Jon855]

try to request a free CD from ubuntu.com they do give em out, although it takes QUITE a while for it to set in and camp in the mail-box. I have I reckon 5 of 86x and 5 of the 64 bit ones.

 

[djdrastic]

Wow , just for interest sake what media did you use ?

 

[QueZart]

Prolly Not the Best stuff - Maxell DVD+R 120min, 4.7gb DATA

But If you Read that Thread Linked Above there are Alot of People haveing the same problem , might have to do with the size of the ISO 2+ GB

And BTW This version Has a Different Version of Grub there is no grub.conf, the file is menu.lst and the format tho similar is alil different..

Anyway Got it all working the hard way..

 

[drag]

Were I work a couple of the network techs have packaged boxes of cds from Ubuntu that they've got and just leave them out for people to take.