Installing Ubuntu on Partition

[the_tazinator]

Burn another LiveCD. If there is something wrong the first CD that you burnt, this will help in figuring out what is not working. This time do not lable it or anything. Burn it and boot off of it. If you have a issue with the second CD, that would lead me to beleive that there may be a hardware issue.

 

[Not Bman]

alright, I'll try that

 

[Not Bman]

Alright now, I burned a new cd, simple burn, no naming, or writing on no nothing.....same freezing problem......

I don't friggin get it!!

 

[the_tazinator]

I went to ubuntuforums.org and did some searching and it appears that there are some other people experiencing freezes during the installation from the LiveCD. They have all froze a different locations in the install. Most of them appear to have fixed the issue with installing from the Alternate CD. You may want to download the Alternate version and give it a try.

 

[Not Bman]

the alternate cd would be installation from the cdrom, no livecd stuff right

*edit, Alternate download friggin sucks, its been over an hour, only at 15%

 

[Not Bman]

So, I downloaded and burned the alternate version

Ran the cd, came to the normal options

Install in Text Mode
Install in OEM Mode
Install a server, etc etc


I tryed both text & oem mode and this is what i get

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernal.
Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd.
_

Then nothing....leaving me there to type something

I don't get what is going on with my cdroms, the first time I downloaded Ubuntu and ran the cd, I had no problems and I enjoyed Ubuntu. Now none of the cd's work, I have even tryed different cdrom drives and still the same crap....

 

[X-Istence]

Download SuSe and give that a try, it is supposed to be the more user friendly distro, can be compared to Ubuntu. And I have never had SuSe CD fail on me.

 

[Not Bman]

I have used Suse 10, I wanted to go to Ubuntu 6.06 since it came out..

 

[the_tazinator]

You might want to check this thread out and see how it applies to your issues. It sounds like there are several people having issues installing 6.06 for various reasons. Reading through the posts may give you something to try.

 

[Not Bman]

The only thing I got out of that thread was that most people are having hardware problems with 6.06, which right now I have a pretty old system, but I think people are having hardware problems with much newer systems.

Unless I missed something, the only solution I found, and it's alot of work, is to install the older version on Ubuntu, and run commands to update the system to 6.06.