no installer?

Sat Apr 16 03:43:18 UTC 2005

i think that you might have your hands on a copy of the live disc,
instead of the install disc... go to www.ubuntulinux.org/download and
hunt down a copy of the install iso and burn that to a disc. follow
the page down till it says "download sites" and pick a mirror near
you... then pick the install cd for your architecture (x86, powerpc,
or amd64) and then you should be on your way.

drew

On 4/15/05, Fletcher Mattox <fletcher at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Warning, newbie question.
> 
> Ok, I boot a Hoary installation cd with the intention of installing
> it for the first time ever (on a disk which is currently partioned
> for debian, which I am willing to overwrite).  It loads the OS into
> memory, asks me several questions about locale, etc, starts a live
> session which then fires up gnome.  That's it.  I've got a nice gnome
> desktop, but no installer.  It asked me no questions about the
> disk.  The ubuntu device database asks me no qustions about the disk.
> Yet the disk works, I can mount the old debian partitions.
> 
> Where is the installer?
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.  Can someone tell me what it
> is?  At the risk of too much data, the output of dmesg is appended.
> 
> Thanks
> Fletcher
> 
> --
> 
> Linux version 2.6.10-5-386 (buildd at terranova) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)) #1 Tue Apr 5 12:12:40 UTC 2005
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff77000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000001ff77000 - 000000001ff79000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000001ff79000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 511MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
> On node 0 totalpages: 130935
>   DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
>   Normal zone: 126839 pages, LIFO batch:16
>   HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> DMI 2.3 present.
> ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                  ) @ 0x000fd550
> ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd564
> ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd598
> ACPI: SSDT (v001   DELL    st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffe6255
> ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd60c
> ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd678
> ACPI: DSDT (v001   DELL    dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
> ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
> Processor #2 15:2 APIC version 20
> WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached.  Processor ignored.
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
> ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
> ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
> ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: casper/enable=true casper-udeb/snapshot/backing-file=/cdrom/casper/filesystem.cloop vga=normal initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/rd/0 rw -- BOOT_IMAGE=/install/vmlinuz
> mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
> mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
> Detected 1779.842 MHz processor.
> Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 512412k/523740k available (1436k kernel code, 10624k reserved, 754k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Calibrating delay loop... 3522.56 BogoMIPS (lpj=1761280)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Checking for popad bug... OK.
> ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 3061k freed
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> EISA bus registered
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe4e, last bus=4
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2.PCI3._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI init
> pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
> PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
> PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> ** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically.  If this
> ** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
> ** driver failed to call pci_enable_device().  As a temporary
> ** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
> ** behavior.  If this argument makes the device work again,
> ** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas at hp.com
> ** so I can fix the driver.
> pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
> pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
> pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
> Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1113619544.425:0): initialized
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
> devfs: boot_options: 0x0
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1048576K size 1024 blocksize
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
> EISA: Detected 0 cards.
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
> NET: Registered protocol family 8
> NET: Registered protocol family 20
> Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, kswapd0 not stopped
>  Strange, kseriod not stopped
>  done
> ACPI wakeup devices:
> VBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3  KBD
> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 19, io base 0xff80
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 23, io base 0xff60
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
> hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
> ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16]  MMIO=[fe1ff000-fe1ff7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
> ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[805b06001c72bd00]
> usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
> drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
> drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
> usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
> usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
> drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
> vga16fb: initializing
> vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
> fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> inserting floppy driver for 2.6.10-5-386
> elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
> ICH2: chipset revision 4
> ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: Lite-On LTN486S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> Probing IDE interface ide3...
> Probing IDE interface ide4...
> Probing IDE interface ide5...
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hda: cache flushes not supported
>  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >
> hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:0b.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> 0000:04:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.19
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:0b.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
> cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
> cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> cloop: losetup_file: 32753 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
> EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> Adding 489972k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
> Capability LSM initialized
> md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> input: PC Speaker
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
> agpgart: Detected an Intel i860 Chipset.
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
> cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50844 usecs
> intel8x0: clocking to 41132
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
> pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
> drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x7304
> usbcore: registered new driver usblp
> drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> hdd: No disk in drive
> hdd: 0kB, 0/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02f0500(lo)
> IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> ibm_acpi: ec object not found
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
> apm: overridden by ACPI.
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