Re: Ubuntu 6.0.6.1 Install

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

How was your bios set up, did you have disc type set to dos?  If so that 
may have been the problem, ubuntu so far as I know is the only Linux 
flavor that needs disc type set to other and not dos.



On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Ian Pascoe wrote:

> Hi All
>
> A bad news, good news story.
>
> I have spent the past 6 hours with a very experienced sighted hand trying to
> install Ubuntu onto my PC.  Firstly, the CD, which was burned today, ran
> well as a Live CD.  However, we hit a major problem with the install onto
> the PC.
>
> The PC set up was a Windows XP on the master IDE 20Gb drive and a slave IDE
> was set up with 4 20GB partitions.  3 in use and one left unformatted for
> Ubuntu to be loaded into.
>
> Got through the initial set up stages OK to the point where it starts to
> load in the CD and it got as far as 56% and hung.  It was left for about 30
> minutes and had progressed no further.
>
> Machine was hard re-booted.
>
> Ubuntu re-loaded and it became apparent that instead of limiting itself to
> the 20Gb partition reserved for it, it had re-formatted the entire hard
> drive - this secondary hard drive was my data drive and irreplaceable data
> had fortunately been backed up.
>
> My friend was totally baffled as to why this had happened - he has carried
> out a number of Ubuntu installs over the past month with no problems - the
> major difference being mine was the only one that he was placing Ubuntu on a
> secondary drive in an available partition as opposed to the master drive on
> a virgin system.
>
> We tried a second time and this time we got to 66% before hanging.
>
> In desperation he went home and got a copy of Zubuntu (I think) and we tried
> that.  Yipee, sailed through with no problems.
>
> This meant that once installed we had to apt-get gnome and orca in its
> entirety.
>
> Although everything is now on we are still having problems with getting
> things to work together and that will be thursday evenings project.
>
> So, can I ask a couple of things?
>
> Is Ubuntu sensitive to where it is installed?  Does it prefer a virgin
> system to one that is already occupied?
>
> Secondly, and I think this relates to Gnupernicus as opposed to Orca
> although by this stage we were getting quite confused, there are lots of
> spin boxes relating to the different talk rates for different controls -
> could this be hidden behind an Advanced tab  and have maybe one or two that
> effects all the options?
>
> As for Orca, again I think, we noted that if the check box relating to key
> echo was unticked Orca stopped responding.
>
> Lastly, relating to Gnome Mag, can someone point me to the URL for
> directions on it's use please?  In particular looking for activating full
> screen magnification, colour inversion to read white on black, together with
> associated keyboard shortcuts.
>
> It looks fun from what little I can see but at the moment frustration is
> high as I can't do anything much with anything!
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian