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

[Joseph]

Michael R. Head wrote:
> 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
>>
>>


This was when I booted to the HD.  The installed OS was there, not in the filesystem, but rather it 
was in the /target drive....   whatever that was....

Of course now that's changed.  I've put a 10Gb drive in and those details are in later eMails.

Joseph