[Ubuntu-PH] help with edubuntu installantion

[Allan E. Registos]

My suggested option:
Let Linux format your hard drive. Try the Fedora 7 installer, do not 
just use a single Linux distribution if you encounter problems. Trying 
different distributions can simplify the problem by figuring it out that 
your PC or some component in it is compatible with Linux in general(or a 
broken component), not only with Ubuntu.

PS.
I don't know if I am correct, but according to my experience, if the 
computer will hang in the midst of reformatting, then obviously there is 
a problem with the hard drive.


ryan wrote:
> Yesterday I tried edubuntu and the installer freezes at 6% and echoes out an
> error on the gcompris package. I just ignored it and I was able to install
> edubuntu, only that there is no GUI, just command prompt.
>
> Note that this is the same PC I used with edubuntu. 
>
> I used partition magic to repartition and reformat the drive, im now on the
> the part which "Prepare Disk Space" and I chose resize SCSI1.. again it
> seemed to hang.
>
> Are there any other options ? 
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan E. Registos [mailto:allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph] 
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:41 PM
> To: Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] help with edubuntu installantion
>
> If nothing happens until two hours(too long), I would rather try to 
> install a different distribution like Fedora to see if it will replicate 
> that Ubuntu installer problem, anyway, I don't know if your hard drive 
> is brand new(assuming that it is not defective), so you can easily point 
> out that it is not a hard drive failure. Formatting a hard drive must be 
> flawless, unless there is a problem within the hardware itself that it 
> cause the installer to freeze.
>
>
>
>
> ryan wrote:
>   
>> Ok, so now the download of Ubuntu 6.06 is finished, and I already made 
>> the bootable CD. All running well, until on the partitioning part.
>>
>> I have 200GB SATA hard drive and I chose to manually partition the 
>> disks. So I made three partitions :
>>
>> Partition 1 : 50 GB
>>
>> Partition 2 : 50 GB
>>
>> Partition 3 : 80 GB
>>
>> .. and another for the swap partition
>>
>> I clicked on forward and then it applies the changes I made (maybe 
>> reformatting the partitions too). This is what is see on the screen now:
>>
>> “Apply Pending Operations
>>
>> Resize /dev/sda1 from 190144 MB to 50198 MB
>>
>> Completed Operations : 0 of 3 operations completed.”
>>
>> It seems the installer hangs here and the progress bar is not moving 
>> anymore! What could be the problem?
>>
>> Does the formatting of partitioned disks should take very long ? (It 
>> is almost 1 hour and the message above is still displayed)
>>
>> Should I use external partitioning software, like partition magic so 
>> that it can take over the partitioning and formatting stuff ?
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* ryan [mailto:ryan at gbsmanila.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:43 PM
>> *To:* 'Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)'
>> *Subject:* Re: [Ubuntu-PH] help with edubuntu installantion
>>
>> Actually I saw something like gcompris package-related error. I am 
>> downloading the ubuntu 7.xx today hopefully its finished tomorrow. Im 
>> sure I’ll have lots of questions once I got the installation working J
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* Sauro Cesaretti [mailto:me at saurocesaretti.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:14 PM
>> *To:* 'Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)'
>> *Subject:* Re: [Ubuntu-PH] help with edubuntu installantion
>>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> First of all, you can try to start the GUI with teh command "sudo 
>> startx" but I'm worried that it doesn't work.
>>
>> In my opinion you should try to burn your cd again and try to execute 
>> the installation,
>>
>> because maybe you have one corrupted
>>
>> package on your cd.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> regards, Sauro
>>
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>>
>> *From:* ubuntu-ph-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com 
>> [mailto:ubuntu-ph-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *On Behalf Of *ryan
>> *Sent:* giovedì 25 ottobre 2007 10.23
>> *To:* ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com
>> *Subject:* [Ubuntu-PH] help with edubuntu installantion
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I tried to install Edubuntu on my PC, everything works fine until on 
>> “install and select… ” it hangs and stays on 6% and after some time it 
>> gives error that a package cannot be installed and that I can continue 
>> the installation sometime. After continuing and installing GRUB, i did 
>> a reboot and then I was able to log in to edubuntu but only in shell.. 
>> How do I run the GUI from there?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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