On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:47, alex wrote:
>I tried another pc - pentium 450 with 198 megs of memory.
>The same thing - I can run it just fine from the cd , but when it comes
>to installing on a harddrive it stalls forever.
>May be I just abandon harddrive installation alltogether and run it from
>the cd on a permanent basis?
>In this case how do I save a config file, to avoid to set it every time
>I boot up the machine?
>Alex
>
Can you find some more of that type of memory? My box has half a gig &
has never had a problem of that sort. The previous box on that shelf had
320 megs & it was fine too.
>Sam Sokolik wrote:
>> How many times did you try the install? I have had the partitioning
>> part of the install crash, but the second time around it works just
>> fine.
>>
>> sam
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: alex <mailto:alex@...>
>> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
>> <mailto:emc-users@...>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:08 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] trying to install umbuntu
>>
>> I'm trying the latest version of ubuntu.
>> Machine is brand new, of cource it is possible that harddrive is
>> defective, but it is not complaining on boot up.
>> As far as I know hard drive currently isn't partitioned at all.
>> Will try yet another pc - I have many.
>> Alex
>>
>> khays@... wrote:
>>>What version of Ubuntu? Was the drive previously partitioned? Did
>>> you use the default partitioning?
>>>
>>>I've installed Ubuntu on old, old machines with 32MB of memory, and
>>> 20GB drives, and it worked fine.
>>>
>>>You might have a drive with a problem, which the installation
>>> procedure will not handle gracefully, or, if you didn't use the
>>> default partitioning, you may have misconfigured the partitions.
>>>
>>>I'd try swapping in a spare drive, if you have one at hand.
>>>
>>>Kirk
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>>From: alex <alex@...>
>>>
>>>>What are the minimal requirements for installation?
>>>>Alex
>>>>
>>>>alex wrote:
>>>>>My previous message didn't appear for some reason, but to summarize
>>>>> I bought a new machine with 512 meg memory
>>>>>and was able to run emc from cd.
>>>>>Now I want to install it on a hard drive,
>>>>>Unfortunately after it configures partition -50 % of the drive ,
>>>>> which is 40 Gigs, it gives a message -error,
>>>>>not enough space for installation.
>>>>>How do I fix it?
>>>>>Alex
>>>>>
>>>>>Jon Elson wrote:
>>>>>>alex wrote:
>>>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>>>I downloaded umbuntu , copyied it into cd but when I turn on the
>>>>>>> pc it still boots from hard drive.
>>>>>>>It sees my cd becouse it is printed on a boot up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>In the BIOS setup screen there should be some way to set the boot
>>>>>>order. make sure the
>>>>>>CD is in the list, and comes before the hard drive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If that doesn't fix it :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>When the system is running whatever is already on the hard drive,
>>>>>> see what the CD
>>>>>>looks like. If it has one HUGE file named xxxxx.iso, you didn't
>>>>>> copy the iso file to
>>>>>>the CD as a bootable image. You need to use the "burn iso file to
>>>>>> CD" or similar option
>>>>>>in your CD burning program when doing this, or it will just copy
>>>>>> the ISO file as an
>>>>>>ordinary Windows file. You want it to move the iso file to the CD
>>>>>>verbatim, because
>>>>>>it is an image of a bootable CD file system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jon
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>>> Subject:
>>> Re: [Emc-users] trying to install umbuntu
>>> From:
>>> alex <alex@...>
>>> Date:
>>> Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:04:26 +0000
>>> To:
>>> "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>>> <emc-users@...>
>>>
>>>
>>> What are the minimal requirements for installation?
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> alex wrote:
>>>> My previous message didn't appear for some reason, but to
>>>> summarize I bought a new machine with 512 meg memory
>>>> and was able to run emc from cd.
>>>> Now I want to install it on a hard drive,
>>>> Unfortunately after it configures partition -50 % of the drive ,
>>>> which is 40 Gigs, it gives a message -error,
>>>> not enough space for installation.
>>>> How do I fix it?
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> Jon Elson wrote:
>>>>>alex wrote:
>>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>> I downloaded umbuntu , copyied it into cd but when I turn on the
>>>>>> pc it still boots from hard drive.
>>>>>>It sees my cd becouse it is printed on a boot up.
>>>>>
>>>>>In the BIOS setup screen there should be some way to set the boot
>>>>>order. make sure the
>>>>>CD is in the list, and comes before the hard drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>If that doesn't fix it :
>>>>>
>>>>>When the system is running whatever is already on the hard drive,
>>>>> see what the CD
>>>>>looks like. If it has one HUGE file named xxxxx.iso, you didn't
>>>>> copy the iso file to
>>>>>the CD as a bootable image. You need to use the "burn iso file to
>>>>> CD" or similar option
>>>>>in your CD burning program when doing this, or it will just copy the
>>>>> ISO file as an
>>>>>ordinary Windows file. You want it to move the iso file to the CD
>>>>>verbatim, because
>>>>>it is an image of a bootable CD file system.
>>>>>
>>>>>Jon
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