[NBLUG/talk] Installation problem

[Michael Tucker]

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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