Hello Robert,<br><br>hda is your Windows XP disk.<br>hdb should be your second hard drive.<br>hdc is one of your optical drives (e.g. burner)<br>hdd would be the next drive.<br><br>Which version of Ubuntu are you installing?  If it is Dapper Drake ( 6.06), you can go to a newsagent and buy any of several magazines which will habe Ubuntu 6.06 on the cover disk.  You can change to the next version from there should you want to.<br><br>Once you have Ubuntu installed Windows will not know of it except in Manager where it is recognised as an unknown format. <br><br>The buffer error looks to me like a burn error.<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Andre<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">SMOK</b> <<a href="mailto:krakau@bigpond.net.au"> krakau@bigpond.net.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div 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></div> <br>--<br>ubuntu-au mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">andremangan@gmail.com</a>