[NBLUG/talk] Installation problem

[Alan Bloom]

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/. 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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