[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu INSTALL disc not living up to its whatever.

[Eric Palmquist]

DEARbuntu ---

 

Help.  I need support, but have no ISP (but once weekly @ pub. lib.) so I need someone I can e-mail with.  (I don't suppose you know where broadband is nearly free?  SocSec Disability, you know, gives me no money to spare.)

 

I was granted a legacy computer with Ubuntu.  It had some nifty-looking NoStarch _*n*x_Cookbookery_ on it which I was reading; but midway through chapter 1 we had a brownout, switching the box off and banishing the  fs  to the Twilight Zone.  (Granters say, "Get Ubuntu's Installation Disc.  It'll be easy."  So what do they know!?)

 

So I sent in for the Ubuntu Installation disc.  Installation should be straightforward and simple?  Maybe?

 

But I get stuck at step 4 or so.  (Sorry, I'm doing e-mail, so I'm not at home where my box is.)  This is the screen about partitioning.  It's blank.  There's nothing to click-select, and I don't seem able to enter any text anywhere.  I figure that my problem is that I can't direct Ubuntu's attention to the  hdd  which is a  dev  which has not been  mount  ed, but how can I  mount  it for partitioning if Ubuntu can't see it?  (Only options are BACK and QUIT.)

 

Please advise, and thank you for.  (I really hope I haven't lost that book of tutorials and hackery.)

 

(Time's up!  They're throwing me off!)

 

--- Eric

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