On Sun, January 30, 2005 9:21 pm, Hugo Vincent said: > 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).
there was a report that another of the shipped cd failing - report was on this list a week or so ago. however this sounds like a different fault. > > 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? > apparently there is no network install option for ubuntu, but you may be able to use deian's? > cheers, > Hugo. > >
