Unable to Partition HD during Installation

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Nov 24 20:03:19 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 05:35 +1030, Wayne wrote:
> I downloaded the Release iso of Warty and went to install it and now the 
> cd wont work damnit :( haha  I opened up the computer to change the 
> jumpers and it looks like there arent any ??? is that normal or am I  
> not looking in the right spot. I had the same trouble with mandrake but 
> changing setting in the BIOS enabled me to install it with out any 
> hassle but the same settings dont work with ubuntu so I dont know what 
> else to do. On my searches I found this bug not too sure if its the same 
> problem as the one posted but it sounds like it 
> (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399 )
> any ideas?


So IDE being what it is...

Check the cable... If there is a hole in it.
It is cable select.

No Hole??  Standard master/slave.

How many IDE devices do you have?

What channels are they on?

CS/Master/Slave must be set on hardware.

You cannot set this in BIOS.

HTH

Vram






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