[NBLUG/talk] Installation problem
Alan Bloom
n1al at sonic.net
Sun Oct 6 23:31:26 PDT 2013
On 10/6/2013 10:59 PM, Michael Tucker wrote:
> Just a side note, are you able to connect to the internet at all in the
> live mode?
No, the Internet works under Windows but not under Ubuntu.
> When you start up I believe it will give you two options, to
> try ubuntu or to install it.
I chose to install it. But I notice if I exit the install program I
have a live Ubuntu window so it must load it as well. I get the error
window popping up that says I have no LAN connection.
> And another question I would have is are
> you using wlan0 or eth0?
I'm using a wired LAN connection.
So right now I am running the UNetbootin program again, but this time I
told it to load the distribution from the Internet instead of using the
.iso file I had already downloaded. It looks like it will take another
hour or two. There is no DSL or cable where I live so I get my Internet
via microwave link. Download speed is supposed to be 3Mbps but it is
often less than that depending on loading.
Alan
>
> On Oct 6, 2013 10:56 PM, "Michael Tucker" <mchltckr80 at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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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