Re: Installation issues post here please.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 8:53 pm
I tried installing Ultimate Linux on my Acer Aspire 9410-2079 laptop. I had UBUNTU 10.04 Lucid Lynx installed, but thought all the extras on Ultimate made it appealing. It installed right over UBUNTU with little effort. I'm still trying to figure out how to get my Broadcom wireless card to find my FIOS signal, so I can access the internet. I've Googled a lot of UBUNTU specific instructions, but I guess I'm missing something. A project still in the works.
I next tried installing it on my DELL Optiplex 745 with Hitachi HDS72161 160 GB Ata hard disk. However, when I got to where I wanted to designate the partition to install Ultimate Linux, I got a notice that there was no operating system on the drive.
At present I have two partitions on the drive, the primary having Windows XP, the secondary having UBUNTU 10.04, with the GRUB boot loader.
When I am on the live DVD, I can access both partitions. So, it appears that for some unknown reason the installation program can't see them.
Now, I absolutely love the way this installation program was able to let me install Linux Ultimate, overwriting UBUNTU 10.04 on its partiton. on my laptop, a 32 bit system. I hope there's a fix or update to the installation program, so I can try it on my desktop.
I thought at first my problem was that I was trying Ultimate Linux's 32 bit version, but when I got and tried the 64 bit, the same problem. I checked the hash totals of my downloaded file against those listed on the Ultimate Linux site, and they match.
Incidentally, the 64 bit link on your home page DOES NOT link to the Ultimate Linux 64 bit version, but to the 32 bit. I had to go to a mirror site and find a link to the 64 bit one.
I next tried installing it on my DELL Optiplex 745 with Hitachi HDS72161 160 GB Ata hard disk. However, when I got to where I wanted to designate the partition to install Ultimate Linux, I got a notice that there was no operating system on the drive.
At present I have two partitions on the drive, the primary having Windows XP, the secondary having UBUNTU 10.04, with the GRUB boot loader.
When I am on the live DVD, I can access both partitions. So, it appears that for some unknown reason the installation program can't see them.
Now, I absolutely love the way this installation program was able to let me install Linux Ultimate, overwriting UBUNTU 10.04 on its partiton. on my laptop, a 32 bit system. I hope there's a fix or update to the installation program, so I can try it on my desktop.
I thought at first my problem was that I was trying Ultimate Linux's 32 bit version, but when I got and tried the 64 bit, the same problem. I checked the hash totals of my downloaded file against those listed on the Ultimate Linux site, and they match.
Incidentally, the 64 bit link on your home page DOES NOT link to the Ultimate Linux 64 bit version, but to the 32 bit. I had to go to a mirror site and find a link to the 64 bit one.