Newbie is unable to install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS from DVD

Joseph Bus josephbus at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 17:44:50 UTC 2007


THANK YOU SIR!...I'm going to try...JosephBus

On 6/5/07, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/5/07, Joseph Bus <josephbus at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Booting 6.06 LTS from DVD, have the  4 choices - Normal, Safe
> graphics,
> > OEM mode, Text mode.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > For both Installs – Normal & Safe Graphics, receive : "PCI: Failed to
> > allocate Mem Resource #6..."
> >
> >
> >
> > For both Installs – Text mode & OEM mode, receive : "No common CD-ROM
> drive
> > was detected...Didn't find a CD-ROM drive: Failed"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > My system:
> >
> >
> >
> > CPU – Intel Core 2
> >
> > RAM – 2 GB
> >
> > HDD – (2) 150 GB, 1st HDD has Windows XP PRO,  2nd HDD is unused.
> >
> > DVD / CD-ROM drive
> >
>
> On some of the later Intel motherboards (i.e., the ones capable of
> using the Core duo), I've found that version 6.06 has problems
> detecting the CD drive (an issue with the IDE components that Intel
> slapped on to the board at the last minute, when they realised how few
> SATA CD drives are available). I had this problem installing on a
> DG965RY board. My solution was to use 7.04 (the latest version), which
> has a later kernel. An alternative, if that isn't an option, is to buy
> a cheap external USB enclosure and temporarily put your CD drive in
> that. The installer (in my experience) usually finds external CD
> drives without any trouble.
>
> -Eamonn
>
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