Forget Hardy

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>     
>>> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:30:09 -0400
>>>> Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> 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.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I've just been trying to find these. They're rather cunningly hidden, apparently.
>>>>
>>>> Searches on ubuntu.com for 'md5' 'md5sum' 'checksum' 'checksums' and 'md5s' yielded nothing.
>>>>
>>>> Though I never seem to find what I'm after first time there, anyway. Difference of intuition, I imagine.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It's not as obvious as it should be, probably to keep from confusing new 
>>> users I'd imagine. But it's at
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
>>>
>>>  From the download page, there's a line telling you how to verify your 
>>> image, and the link is the one I put up above.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Thank you Bart. I went to that page and ran the test and my .iso 
>> file is correct. That doen't mean it all got on the cd-rom but I saw no 
>> errors or unusual things when I recorded it. And it runs fine. It boots 
>> and lets you install, but it never completes.
>>     
>
> If your md5sum matched the one on the website, your downloaded iso is fine.
>
> The other part of the thread seems to point to a space or partition 
> problem from glancing at it. I've been sitting back because I hoped 
> others might have better luck diagnosing from the logfile you posted.
>
>   
    Bart it seems that the Hardy installer is worried because it can't 
find a partition that has a FAT file system. This is accurate because I 
do not have one. But I could make one just to keep the installer happy 
if needed. If needed this is a huge bug against the installer!

Karl
 

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