<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am trying to install Ubuntu from downloaded (and subsequently burned) ISO image.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am getting the following error messages:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[...some big number] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, block ...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried to re-burn the image on different burner but it still doesn't work.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What could be wrong.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is hdc a "hard-drive" or is it "CD-ROM drive"?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have installed a brand new extra hard-drive for Ubuntu because I want to keep the original hard-drive with Windows XP (you know: the dual-boot trick).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is that OK?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Windows can't use that new hard-drive, althought it wants to "initialize it".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please, help.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>