[NBLUG/talk] Installation problem

[Michael Tucker]

Just a side note, are you able to connect to the internet at all in the
live mode? When you start up I believe it will give you two options, to try
ubuntu or to install it. And another question I would have is are you using
wlan0 or eth0?
On Oct 6, 2013 10:56 PM, "Michael Tucker" <mchltckr80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might have a corrupt image. Try downloading it again and then
> reinstalling. I have found that if I download over wifi sometimes the image
> gets corrupted, if you can try to download over a hardwired connection.
> Hope this helps.
> On Oct 6, 2013 10:53 PM, "Alan Bloom" <n1al at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Michael,
>>
>> That worked.  I was able to boot from the thumb drive.
>>
>> However I can't seem to get the Install program to work.  After selecting
>> the English language I see a screen that says that I do have the required
>> 4.4 GB of disc space but do not have Internet connectivity (no doubt since
>> there is no driver for the LAN card).
>>
>> But I proceeded anyway and chose "Something Else" for the Installation
>> Type.  Then I tried all different combinations of settings in the next
>> menu, but every time I try to actually install onto /dev/sda5 I always get
>> an error message:
>>
>>    No root file system is defined.
>>    Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
>>
>> I never saw a "partitioning menu" or a place to define a root file system.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/6/2013 8:23 PM, Michael Tucker wrote:
>>
>>> Good evening Alan,
>>>
>>> To load your iso onto a thumb dive using windows I would recommend
>>> software from here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.**net/<http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/>.
>>> You should be
>>> able to overwrite existing linux installations on said partition once
>>> you create a proper thumb drive to boot from. Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2013 7:40 PM, "Alan Bloom" <n1al at sonic.net
>>> <mailto:n1al at sonic.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I used to have Ubuntu Linux dual-booted with Windows XP Pro but some
>>>     time ago, after one of the automatic Ubuntu updates, the network
>>>     card stopped working.  (It still worked fine under Windoze.)  I
>>>     spent many hours trying solutions I found on the Internet but was
>>>     never able to solve the problem.  I think it was version
>>> 11.something.
>>>
>>>     So now I am trying a clean install using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  I
>>>     already have two partitions set up on the hard disc and I want to
>>>     install Linux on the second partition.  I tried using the installer
>>>     program from the Ubuntu web site, but that insists on placing it in
>>>     the same partition as Windows (as a Windows directory).
>>>
>>>     If you just do the normal download from the Ubuntu web site, what
>>>     you get is a .iso file.  I tried putting that on a thumb drive and
>>>     booting from that (the computer is set up to boot from USB).  When I
>>>     do that I get a "boot:" prompt, but when I hit the ENTER key, I get
>>>     an error message, "Could not find kernel image: linux".  I tried
>>>     extracting the .iso file to the same thumb drive but it wouldn't
>>>     boot from that either.
>>>
>>>     I also tried to store the .iso file to a CD-ROM but it is 4 or 5
>>>     Mbytes too large to fit on a CD.
>>>
>>>     I would be happy just to purchase the 12.04LTS CD from Ubuntu if I
>>>     could be sure it would work.
>>>
>>>     Again, what I am trying to accomplish is to install Ubuntu into an
>>>     already-existing partition on the hard disc.
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>
>>>     Alan
>>>
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