Cell wrote:I see you did the auto option.I'm not sure,but I remember something about using that option,and having problems.Course it could be a totally different subject other than Jaunty. You should partition your drive manually.Make a /,home,and a swamp.Its not only more reliable,but more secure also.Maybe 10 (10 might seems excessive but I like to be safe.) gigs for your / (which is root),and the rest minus your swamp for home.This way you can use ext4 file system.Which is faster,and improved....some might argue that point tho,but I believe if not all then most mods,and admins here use it.
If you need guidance on partitioning just yell back.
Cell
Thanks dude for all the advice and suggestions.
I'm not sure what the hell I'm doing wrong or what's going on. I must have tried at least 5 installations on two different hard drives. I even tried fresh installs of Kubuntu and ubuntu and got the same error message!! I followed the excellent
partitioning guide (BTW: link on the #9 picture leads to a file not found message) by the master. Followed it to the T. I do believe this is a user error issue.
These were IDE hard drives, so I put in the WD Raptor SATA drive that was originally in that machine, and installed Ultimate Edition 2.3 just fine. Booting up like a champ and fast. So I will keep it like it is, and format the 200 gb seagate drive in fat format and use that for his file storage.
Researching around the NET, with those experiencing the exact error message there were various solutions including:
- Changing the hard drive from master to cable select
- If the cd/dvd drive was hooked up as slave from the HD, disconnect and put the cd on its own ide
- If no floppy drive in system, disable it from the bios
- Defective hard drive
- No operating system installed
- Change bios settings for sata drive to IDE
- Defective IDE cable or bad connection
- Incorrect jumper settings on drives
- IDE cables inserted incorrectly
- Bad install disk
I got a dell dimension 4100 sitting around. Featuring an intel Pentium III processor 933 MHz processor. Going to toy with this and see what I can get going. Sweetness goes out to the inventor of the KVM switch
And a big 'ole toast
to you fine folks running these forums and taking time out of your busy schedules to provide outstanding support.
WARNING: I'll be back. I have a long ways to go before I can contribute to helping others, but I'll be damn if I won't take advantage of your knowledge when a search fails me.