Problem installing Ubuntu on a Dell Precision 340

[Randy Forston]

> Martynas Brijunas <mbrijun at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, here are the results of me waiting for the partitioner to kick in
> - 5 mins of waiting did not make the partitioner to go any further....
> <snip>
>>>> when trying to install Ubuntu 5.10 on my Dell Precision 340, it
>>>> gets to the stage where the disk partitioner SHOULD kick in.
>>>> However, the partitioner does not kick in, the screen becomes
>>>> solid blue, and the HDD light stays constantly on.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone run in the same problems before?
>>>
>>> I haven't used this myself, but there has been several mentions of
>>> this. Apparently, the partitioner *is* working, it just takes a long
>>> time and doesn't have any kind of progress indicator. I'd give a
>>> while and see what happens.
>>>
>>> -Eamonn

I have Breezy installed on a Precision 410, ... and had Hoary before that.

No problems with the install, even with IDE and 2 SCSI controllers built-in
to the motherboard (both my hard drives are SCSI, CD & DVD drives on the IDE
side).

You might check the MD5sum on your image.
That or possibly something glitched when you burned the CD.

There are only two possibilities I can think of other than a drive
configuration error.
A)Some data is stuck in the first 64 sectors of the drive that the
partitioner can't deal with, or,
B)a bad drive.

I'd use a utility to wipe the boot block of the hard drive, be sure my
md5sum was good, and try the install again.


Randy