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needin to put ubuntu on blank hard drive need to know how havin troubles.....
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gibbey531
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1. September 2007 @ 16:09 |
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hey i'm tryin to put the ubuntu linux program on my blank hard drive on my computer. i try to start it up like a live cd but everytime i get the actual program running i can only have it up for like 1 minute then the computer restarts itself and i have to reboot the computer. can anyone tell me what i need to do in order to full install ubuntu?
thanks
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i_am_alex
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13. September 2007 @ 01:02 |
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Is it the computer that's failing, or just the CD?
Did the computer work before you tried this?
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 2. October 2007 @ 13:22
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gibbey531
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3. November 2007 @ 13:33 |
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yeah, the computer worked fine. It just always asked me which OS to use and it gave me Windows XP(Bootscreen) and Windows XP as the choices which were the exact same thing. When i use the live CD it just go straight to that screen with those same 2 choices. I'm guessing i have to get rid of the OS choice screen or get rid of one of the choices since they are the same thing. can anyone tell me what to and how?
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1Adonis4u
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7. November 2007 @ 06:46 |
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You might try downloading the "Alternative" version of Ubuntu available at their site. It has worked for me every time the graphical installer fails. Basically, it's the same thing except no live CD and a text installer.
Give it a shot.
"Burn, baby, BURN!"
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slugfuk
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7. November 2007 @ 15:13 |
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set your computer to boot from cd.. only, in the bios
have you burned the disk slow.. less than 24x?
linux doesn't like booting from dvd drives for some obscure reason on some hardware configurations..
Finally.. linux ubuntu is not a program.. it's an operating system.. and its name is Ubuntu linux (linux for n00bs).. High profile, but with security problems and software issues
if you still have troubles read the ubuntu wiki and installing help topics on their main site.
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7. November 2007 @ 17:10 |
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Originally posted by slugfuk:
linux doesn't like booting from dvd drives for some obscure reason on some hardware configurations..
another reason i like Mandriva, PClinusOS etc etc; most of my machine's have DVD burners or dvd-rom drives, no problem with any distro booting from dvd drives here, though my kit isn't very obscure :)
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HazelB
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11. November 2007 @ 21:49 |
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Exact same problem, used the Alt install disk and all is good.
Hazel
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varnull
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12. November 2007 @ 06:58 |
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Funny7 you say that Hazel.. because it is the alt-install ubuntu disk that refuses to work for me.. Just shows how random these things can be, though I do admit to cheating a little by booting puppy and doing my drive formatting with gparted ;-)
Seems to make a heap of difference to boot reliability.. thinking out loud... maybe some mobos don't like booting with unpartitioned hdd's?
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HazelB
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12. November 2007 @ 11:45 |
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Another thing I found out the hard way - while trying to partition two HDDs, the 2nd disk needs to be partitioned as primary, not logical.
I wanted 2 partitions, so both are primary. The partitioner made the first one as /home and the other came up /usr. I forced a logical partition to /home as another swap area.
It would hang at 6% software install every time until I figured this out.
Now if I could just get ./configure[, make, and make install work. . .
Where is that cgg?
Hazel
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varnull
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12. November 2007 @ 13:45 |
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On ubuntu??
It has a good few things missing.. try
apt-get install build-essentials
and then give it another go.
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HazelB
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12. November 2007 @ 15:32 |
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Tried that already, installed build-essential 11.3ubuntu1 as listed in apt-get
Here is the terminal dialogue:
sam@75-92-197-226:~/Desktop/Tony's DrQueue$ ls -l
total 340
drwxr-xr-x 14 sam root 4096 2007-07-21 23:34 drqueue-0.64.3
-rwx------ 1 sam root 336767 2001-06-12 08:35 drqueue[1].0.64.3.tgz
sam@75-92-197-226:~/Desktop/Tony's DrQueue$ cd drqueue-0.64.3
sam@75-92-197-226:~/Desktop/Tony's DrQueue/drqueue-0.64.3$ sudo ./configure
[sudo] password for sam:
sudo: ./configure: command not found
sam@75-92-197-226:~/Desktop/Tony's DrQueue/drqueue-0.64.3$
I think the path is not appropriate to the command directory. haven't figured that out yet.
This should be a thread of its own, yes?
Hazel
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varnull
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12. November 2007 @ 19:21 |
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Try changing tint the directory the files are in..
There may not be a configure or a configure-guess file, in which case make usually does it all.
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HazelB
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12. November 2007 @ 19:48 |
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Well, now. the downloaded build-essentials folder is a list of the files needed to build a *.deb install package from a tar
It does not contain the tools you need, just what you need, sort of, since different sources list slightly different tools.
I think...
How they are collected and configured to work together, ?
I'm working on it.
Anyone up to helping? Please?
Hazel
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