Update on the mentioned shipped CD failure - It seems to be a problem with one of my drives - I copied the disk on another machine with different drive and installed with the copy OK - so it wasn't the CD it would seem.
Lance B -----Original Message----- Wrom: RZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMHAALPTCXLYR Sent: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:35:55 +1300 (NZDT) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!! 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. > > <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
