<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span>I had this happen on a really old machine, many years ago. My solution was to ditch Windows and stick with a single boot. I do still have a (WINE doesn't like) binary to run so I use virtualbox.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Apparently it used to happen more often. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida
Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573259<br></span></div><div> </div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>C. Mike Rice<br>KF7VZZ@gmail.com<br>dolo724@yahoo.com</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alan Bloom <n1al@sonic.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@nblug.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 6, 2013 7:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [NBLUG/talk] Installation problem<br> </font> </div> <div
class="y_msg_container"><br>I used to have Ubuntu Linux dual-booted with Windows XP Pro but some <br>time ago, after one of the automatic Ubuntu updates, the network card <br>stopped working. (It still worked fine under Windoze.) I spent many <br>hours trying solutions I found on the Internet but was never able to <br>solve the problem. I think it was version 11.something.<br><br>So now I am trying a clean install using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I already <br>have two partitions set up on the hard disc and I want to install Linux <br>on the second partition. I tried using the installer program from the <br>Ubuntu web site, but that insists on placing it in the same partition as <br>Windows (as a Windows directory).<br><br>If you just do the normal download from the Ubuntu web site, what you <br>get is a .iso file. I tried putting that on a thumb drive and booting <br>from that (the computer is set up to boot from USB).
When I do that I <br>get a "boot:" prompt, but when I hit the ENTER key, I get an error <br>message, "Could not find kernel image: linux". I tried extracting the <br>.iso file to the same thumb drive but it wouldn't boot from that either.<br><br>I also tried to store the .iso file to a CD-ROM but it is 4 or 5 Mbytes <br>too large to fit on a CD.<br><br>I would be happy just to purchase the 12.04LTS CD from Ubuntu if I could <br>be sure it would work.<br><br>Again, what I am trying to accomplish is to install Ubuntu into an <br>already-existing partition on the hard disc.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Alan<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@nblug.org" href="mailto:talk@nblug.org">talk@nblug.org</a><br><a href="http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>