On further testing, the hard drive did indeed have some faulty sectors on it. The drive was an older 4Gb unit and contained 12 bad sectors.
Once I realized this, and the installer's inability to get past it, the install went well. I guess a request I would have is if PARTED in the install could do a disk integrity check and mark the suspect sectors as bad so the install could finish. Other than that, my experience with Unbuntu has been a very pleasant one. Send my kudos to the development team for providing the BEST driver support of any linux distro I have tested to date. I am getting ready to setup 30 to 40 PCs for an educational charity in Cincinnati, OH and Edubuntu is going to be the OS they will run. On 3/27/07, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan, please leave ubiquity bugs alone until you have more experience; > this isn't a parted bug at all. partman quit perfectly normally, and > that wasn't the source of the error here. > > Adrastos (and also Chad, from a duplicate): It appears that the kernel > encountered too many errors when trying to write to your hard disk and > gave up in order to avoid causing further damage. This is often due to a > faulty hard disk, and at any rate isn't an installer bug as such. It may > help to check whether the hard disk is old and in need of replacement, > or to move the system to a cooler environment. > > ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) > Sourcepackagename: parted => ubiquity > Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson > Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected > > -- > Ubuntu 6.10 installation crash > https://launchpad.net/bugs/69937 > -- Chad Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mysite.verizon.net/interkingdom/ Power. Prowess. Presence. -- Ubuntu 6.10 installation crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/69937 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
