Hi everyone,
Yesterday I tried to install Ubuntu on a friends PC - a much needed conversion as I see it - he's a devout windows junkie (but keen to try linux :)...
So it got about 20 seconds into the install process, chose language and so on, then had a fatal error (still in the curses-installer) and said that the optical drive was unsupported! The drive was a fairly new sony dual layer dvd burner, but still its a damned ATAPI compatible drive, reading a plain old CD, whats so hard about that?? (Note its definitely not the media - it was the Ship-it pressed cd).
It gave us an option of making a boot floppy, but the machine had no floppy drive...
I thought we could try a network install (either over the internet or off my laptop?) but i couldn't find any instructions on how to do that. can someone please point me in the right direction?
cheers, Hugo.
