Glitch in installing 9.04 as a Clean Install.

[Alfred]

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric <1ballistic1 at gmail.com>
Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
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To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Glitch in installing 9.04 as a Clean Install.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:01:06 -0300

Had the same issue when I installed
Seems to be related to either SATA/RAID adapters
For starters, try checking that your bios doesnt have your sata
controler set to "sata+raid" or some such
Play around with bios option, or search the forums...theres about a
million different solution there though.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
        Hi - All:
        
        I had Ubuntu 9.04 32 Bit Downloaded for me on a CD to try in
        Live Mode,
        and it worked fine. We have very slow dial-up here. So I ordered
        from
        England at thelinuxstore.org the 8 DVD set of Ubuntu 9.04 32bit
        with all
        the repositories on DVD. So perhaps not much Downloading needed.
        
        Now unlike the install manuals online, it goes through some
        steps of the
        install and then stops at Busy Box V 1.10.2 Built in Shell ash
        (initramfs)_  saying type "help" for a list of Commands. Strange
        thing -
        The CD that I had Downloaded does this too, now. Where before it
        loaded
        to the Live desktop, with the install Icon on the screen.
        
        I formatted the hard drive to EXT3. Have no Idea at all what to
        do next.
        
        It detected my Card reader, because the lights came on, but that
        is all
        I can see. Then it goes to Busy Box (initramfs)_ I'm not real
        good at
        Text mode installs, I did not select text mode, I selected The
        first
        option do nothing to the OS, then tried the second menu item
        Install
        option, both end in Busy Box, (initramfs)_ then tried hitting F4
        and
        going through the list of Options, F2, F3, .... etc. Still it
        ends in
        Busy box (initramfs)_
        
        My Confuser is a Home made AMD Athalon XP, with 2 Gigs of DDR
        Ram,
        Nvidia 5500 with 256 Megs of Video Ram. 320 Gigs Hard drive
        Formatted to
        EXT3. With an LG DVD Cutter/CD cutter. Worked OK with 6.04,
        7.10, 8.10.
        
        Anyone got any ideas about how to get around this.
        
        Thank you in advance.
        
        Alfred!
        
        
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Hi thank you for the tip: 

I don't have SATA or Raid, but the Bios was not quite like how I set it
up, so I made a few changes.

Now the two Install disks LOAD, but then I ran into Partitioner
Problems.

It seems I/0 Errors mean that the DVD Lens is Dirty. So I put an un-used
Brand new DVD Drive into my Computer. Now it installs. First I did the
install from the CD. Then I Formatted the Drive and used the Install DVD
from www.thelinuxstore.org -It went fine, then I added all the 8 DVD's
of repositories, that went fine too.

I tried to install some software to test it out, but it said I needed to
have an internet connection and then do a Check, so I'm not out of the
Woods yet. We are supposed to be able to make use of the repositories on
DVD, instead of using the Internet on Dial-up - SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Dial-up. That did not quite work. I've worked on it two days now,
perhaps one more day!

Alfred!