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

[Joseph]

NoOp wrote:
> On 04/13/2008 03:18 PM, Joseph wrote:
>> 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>
> 
> You obviously missed Nils response:
> 
>> Joseph wrote:
>>>> I've been trying all day to get Ubuntu 7.x installed into a computer.
>> Which 7.x? 7.04 or 7.10? Did you use the live CD or the alternate CD?
>>
>>>> When I get it installed, it's not normal.  It gives me the following
>>>> oddities:
>> [...]
>>>> Any ideas?  I think it might have something to do with the fact that
>>>> the hard drive is a 2.1Gb drive.
>> I think 2.1GB is too small. I can't find a reference right now, but I seem 
>> to remember that the recommended minimum disk size is 4GB. On my test 
>> machine with Kubuntu 8.04 beta, there are only about 500MB left from the 
>> 4GB disk. Even if you could install on 2GB (which I doubt), it would not 
>> be a usable system.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
> 
> And I'd have to agree with Nils; I also have Ubuntu installed on a 4.5GB
> and currently only have 500Mb left.
> 
> See:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/desktopedition
> <quote>
> System Requirements
> 
> Ubuntu is available for PC, 64-Bit and Mac architectures. At least 256
> MB of RAM is required to run the desktop install CD. Install requires at
> least 4 GB of disk space.
> </quote>
> 
> The only thing that I'd improve on there is that you can install on
> 128MB of RAM using the alternate cd.
> 
> 


Actually, I DID get Nils' response and I thought I'd responded to it.  However, at this point, I'd 
changed from the 2112Mb drive to a 10Gb drive.  I actually got it onto the disk, but it won't mount 
and boot

But if you notice the Subject line it's changed....   I changed it when I changed to the HD.  I 
suppose I should have been more clear on that.

So we're back to what I'd written before which is as follows:

<snip>
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