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

[Joseph]

Joseph wrote:
> 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
> 


CORRECTION
I tried booting to the hard drive and it wouldn't, so when I booted through the setup, I was getting 
this /target which contained all the files.

However, my problem with it is different now....

Joseph