Installing 7.1 (Gutsy) (was goes to a "/target" drive???)

[Joseph]

Joseph wrote:
>
> I've been trying all day to get Ubuntu 7.x installed into a computer.
>
> When I get it installed, it's not normal.  It gives me the following 
> oddities:
>
>        1.  The "Examples" and "Install" folders are still on the desktop
>        2.  There is a new "drive" icon on the desktop called "/target"
>        3.  There's no "filesystem" folder in the computer menu
>        3.  All the files which are supposed to go to the "filesystem" 
> folder is in this new "/target" drive
>        4.  The files are there, but when I attempt to reboot, it 
> doesn't and I must reinstall again and it does the same thing.
>
> Any ideas?  I think it might have something to do with the fact that 
> the hard drive is a 2.1Gb drive.
>
> Am I correct???   ...and if not, what might I try???
>
> Joseph
>

No response to this so far....   <grimace>

But, after much harranging and scrapping with this, I DID apparently get 
Ubuntu (Gutsy) onto the drive in my old e-Machine.  (the 'e' stands for 
evil)

As it was starting, the grub started and the "Starting up ... " came up 
with two apparent errors. They are:

    1.  invalid compressed format (err=1)
    2.  Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown wn-block(0,0)


The second, third, and fourth times the errors were:
    1.  "crc error"
    2.  Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown wn-block(0,0)


Any ideas on how to mount this and run the system???

Joseph