Ubuntu will not install

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:29:41AM -0500, Mighty Mik wrote:
> I think it's the sources for the installer. LISTEN:  :evil: i get the
> same error when installing the ubuntu install disk, it fails at the
> kernel install...the latest message telling me that APT could not find
> it! now...i'm a late nighter, so i deside to pull out a Knoppix disk,
> and do a ubuntu install from the command line like it says here...
> http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/InstallFromKnoppixHowto .
> 
> Things go more or less like it says on the page till i get to
> INSTALLING THE KERNEL! Guess what... *no package!* E: Couldn't find
> package linux-image-686 .

That documentation is slightly unhelpful, because it relies on you using
the Ubuntu archive, not an Ubuntu CD. I've changed it to recommend
linux-386 instead of linux-image-686.

However, the error during your install using the real installer was
almost certainly a bad burn. If the kernel were missing there,
everyone's installs on i386 would fail, not just yours, and that is not
the case.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]