I connected an SATA optical drive to the USB converter and installed Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 to an SATA drive with no issues. So it is definitely something about the PATA optical drive. This test and the previous test were done on a Dell Studio XPS 8000 as my old Dimension 4600 would not recognize the USB attached optical drive for booting and my Poweredge 400SC server was not available for this experiment.
Then I had a really off the wall idea... What if the image was burned to CD with a PATA optical burner? All the CDs I have used to date have been burned in a SATA DVD burner in the Studio. So I burned Ubuntu Server 10.04.2 (did not have the image for 10.04.1 handy) in a PATA DVD burner in the Dimension. I then tried to install using the same drive onto the Dimension SATA hard drive. And guess what? It didn't work either. Same error. Ken -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682159 Title: Cannot install Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 32 bit using a NEC DVD_RW ND-35xx PATA DVD drive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/682159/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
