It's not a think pad, it's a think center.  I Mis spoke.
 

 

Mark Wallace
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---- Original Message ----
From: Chris Knadle <[email protected]>
To: mhvlug <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 7:28 pm
Subject: Re: [mhvlug] New install is crashing.


On Sunday, January 13, 2013 07:24:09, Mark Wallace wrote:
> CD was successfully used on another install less than a week ago and
> "check sum"ed successfully just before the problem.  Computer being used
> is an IBM think pad.  Is it possible that they did something bios-cmos
> to "protect it."

Many Thinkpads have the option for a hard disk password setting, but AFAIK 
other than that there's nothing that would prevent partitioning; even so, a 
partitioner program crashing with an error I would consider unusual.

> Computer had picked up a virus that wiped out the data
> and prevented operation of AVG.  It had XP Service Pack 2 in it.  I am
> using a 64 bit KDE 12.04 LTS CD that it check sum and "try Kubuntu"ed
> with no problems.

In some of the forum messages I've seen, people running into this problem were 
eventually able to get Ubuntu installed after retrying a few times.  I'm not 
familiar with this particular problem and have never seen it yet.

  -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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