Problem installing Ubuntu on a Dell Precision 340

[Martynas Brijunas]

Ok, the suggestion to wipe the drive clean worked really well - the
partitioner kicked in immediatelly.

On 10/11/05, Randy Forston <rforston at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 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
>
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