Installing goes to a "/target" drive???

[Michael R. Head]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 18:52 -0500, Joseph wrote:
> 
> I've been trying all day to get Ubuntu 7.x installed into a computer.

You must mean 7.10, which is named for the year and month it was
released (October, 2007)

> 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???

Let me ask a silly question, when you boot, is the Ubuntu Desktop CD
still in the drive? It sounds like it's booting to the install CD rather
than right off the drive.

> Joseph
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-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/
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