Are we sure this is a good hard drive? <div>On 2/20/07, Daniel Buch <<a href="mailto:daniel.buch@gmail.com">daniel.buch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Robert, I'm glad to hear that you and your son have chosen Ubuntu!  I want to make sure that your request gets handled as quickly and effectively as possible, so I've copied the Team Mailing List so that one of our more technically-savvy members can help you out. In the future, we hope to handle support requests such as this via our main website: <a href="http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org">ohio.ubuntu-us.org</a>  ...until then, you'll probably get the most immediate attention on the Ubuntu Forums (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org">ubuntuforums.org</a>) or the #ubuntu IRC channel on <a href="http://Freenode.net">Freenode.net</a> Please keep us posted.  We're happy to have you in the Ubuntu community.  If you're an Ohio resident, please consider joining the Ubuntu Ohio LoCo Team (<a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio</a>) ...unless you already have ;-) Cheers, Dan (meatballhat) On 2/20/07, Robert Mayer <<a href="mailto:r.d.s.mayer@gmail.com">r.d.s.mayer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Dear Daniel, > > I got your email from Ubuntu launchpad, which I just joined. > > My son, aged 16, is trying to start using Ubuntu (I will follow him when I > am able). > > However, he can not install: he gets the message as follows > > > Failed to create a file system. The ext 3 file system creation in > partition 1 of IDE1 master (hda) failed. > > Actually, he succeeded at first - but then tried to install another, maybe > older and, he thought, more stable version of Ubuntu, on top of the newer > possibly beta version. Since then, nothing has worked. > > Any advice? > > Best, > > Rob Mayer > > -- //    The Highway to Freedom //    is Now Open for Everyone //- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - //    <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> -- Ubuntu-us-oh mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-oh@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-oh@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-oh">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-oh</a> </blockquote></div> -- Registered Linux User # 379282