Forget Hardy

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> Just in case, and since it only takes a few minutes to do, run the MD5 
>>> sum against your .iso image and compare it to the website's stated MD5.
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Sorry I have forgot how to do that, or I never knew :-)
>>     
>
> md5sum <filename>
> md5sum should be installed already, if not you'd probably just do
> sudo apt-get install md5sum
> to install it. Once run it'll spit out a hash. Match that to the md5sum 
> listed off the website. If they don't exactly match, you don't have the 
> same file.
>
>   
>>> You're saying it's *starting* to boot from the CD, then quits? So this 
>>> confirms that the computer sees it and starts booting from it?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Your reading the wrong thing into what I wrote.
>>     
>
> :-p you wrote the wrong thing for me to read.
>
>   
>>> I don't know what you mean when you say that it "drops back to the CD".
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     OK here is the whole story. I made and tested the cd-rom. It tested 
>> good. 
>>     
>
> Okay, definitely not a "I burned the file onto the CD instead of the 
> image" issue.
>
>   
>> Reboot and when the cd-rom comes up I select English and then 
>> click on Install. This is very slow.
>>
>>     Then a panel comes up and says there are 6 o7 steps to do and I do 
>> them an then a panel comes up and says loading software. Then it loads 
>> and sets up APT and then it gets a lot of things from the Internet at 
>> about 82% complete. Then it starts to go towards 100% and stops.
>>
>>     Then it drops back to the Live-cd image after not doing a thing. But 
>> if I find the partition it made I find a complete hardy load but no 
>> /boot/grub/ installed. It IS consistant. It has done this every time.
>>     
>
> Very odd. You mean that you can run the livecd just fine, install goes 
> most of the way, but then quits abruptly? Are there any error logs 
> temporarily kept in the liveboot that could be checked?
>
>   
    I do not know. Not sure the LiveCD has a /var or anything like it. 
But can do it again and see if any logs are there.

Karl


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