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Post by amphere on Jun 17, 2010 23:05:14 GMT -5
Hi all. Just getting into this Linux world and have made every mistake available up to this point. When others become available, I'm ready for them.
Have just installed Ubuntu on my laptop with a live disk and just need to know if I can load it onto my hard disk to make my cd available for other things.
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Post by bryan on Jun 18, 2010 6:49:38 GMT -5
Welcome amphere! So, Have just installed Ubuntu on my laptop with a live disk and just need to know if I can load it onto my hard disk to make my cd available for other things.
you mean you wish to install a *buntu to your hard drive from CD? Which Ubuntu do you have?
There should be a entry in main menu named "InstallRelease" or similar. Do you have any other systems on the computer, windows, etc?
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Post by amphere on Jun 18, 2010 11:11:58 GMT -5
It says NFluxOS Ubuntu 10.04 - i686. I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100 with 256 Meg of Ram and a 12 Gig Hard drive. I've wiped out the old Microsoft XP because it wouldn't start up after I tried to update to Service Pack 3.
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Post by bryan on Jun 18, 2010 11:35:13 GMT -5
OK go ahead and install it if you wish I strongly suggesst you first use the default user "guest" when it boots up and the desktop starts you will be in the "guest" account. go to the fbpanel menu at top and choose system/install release. when it gets to part about user name, etc use "guest" and "guest" as user name/password. I say this because if you make a new user, like your name some things will not be setup for you to run admin apps after install. If you instead make a new user/password you will have to edit /etc/sudoers after install I can help you there so, go ahead and install it and come back?
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Post by amphere on Jun 18, 2010 13:05:38 GMT -5
OK, found System but no 'install' option. Options are: Bootup Manager, Device Manager, Gigolo, GParted, Hardware Drivers, Language Support, Network, Network Tools, NTFS Config Tool, PCMan File Manager, Remastersys backup, RutilT WLAN Manager, Software Sources, Startup Disk Creator, Synaptic Package Manager, System Monitor, Time and Date, Update Manager, Users and Groups, Windows Wireless Drivers.
Any suggestion where that might be?
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Post by bryan on Jun 18, 2010 14:34:46 GMT -5
I'm an idiot Sometimes Remastersys "forgets" to place a menu entry for the Ubiquity Installer in /usr/share/applications and I forgot to check it. Anyways- 1) the installer icon is on the Desktop in users /home/guest/Desktop folder double-click it and install. just open pcmanfm file manager from top panel, the "house-shaped" icon then click on Desktop in left pane Very sorry about that Now I gotta redo that one... please post back anymore issues I'll stay here for awhile so if'n you do:)
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Post by amphere on Jun 18, 2010 18:27:31 GMT -5
Great help. I never would have looked there. It went along great, then gave me a 'Installer crashed' screen. The last line of the page is "Runtime Error: Install failed with exit code 135; see /var/log/syslog.
It's got a lot of diagnostic info that I'm to sent to a website, but I'm not on the internet on that computer yet so I'd have to type it all manually. Any idea what the problem is?
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Post by bryan on Jun 18, 2010 18:32:08 GMT -5
no I dont know... I have reinstalled it to my pc's several times... it may be the processor or ram, etc...
did you check what /var/log/syslog says?
do
sudo leafpad /var/log/syslog
go all the way to bottom and see what it says... or delete the existing /var/log/syslog
sudo rm -r /var/log/syslog
and then re-do the install process and check again /var/log/syslog and it should only contain the installer info
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Post by amphere on Jun 18, 2010 18:59:52 GMT -5
After deleting, then re-running install: Syslog contains "1" or "l" (lowercase L). Nothing else
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Post by bryan on Jun 18, 2010 19:05:12 GMT -5
and when you re-ran install it crashed at what point?
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Post by bryan on Jun 18, 2010 19:08:48 GMT -5
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Post by amphere on Jun 18, 2010 21:15:31 GMT -5
I submitted it to the bug site. It always happens during the install, after all the questions are asked. I'm booting from a CD and everything seems to work properly.
Thanks for your help. I guess I'll see what the bug site comes up with.
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Post by bryan on Jun 19, 2010 6:26:31 GMT -5
as I said though it may not be a bug, but a bad cd burn, or your cd reader is dirty or bad, etc in my Desktop PC I make all four nFluxOS' on, I have to use a external usb Lite-On DVD r/w to play cd/dvd's as the onboard DVD r/w player has input/output issues and wont/cant properly read some dvd's. This PC also cannot boot from usb, so I use Plop bootmanager which is included in every nflux iso, to boot from usb. Do you have a USB? I have a Toshiba 7000CT 160mb RAM, 266mhz 4gb hard drive, also wont boot from usb so again I use Plop on a floppy to boot from usb or put Plop on hard drive after installing any distro so I can boot from usb, etc you know every nflux also has netbootcd onboard that can net-insall almost any distro netbootcd.tuxfamily.org/yeah, worst scenario you can net-install ubuntu 10.04 with no desktop or X and I can "walk" you thru adding a very light desktop like blackbox/fluxbox/icewm, etc?? netbootcd is uaually how I make any *buntu version; I do a minimal no X command line install, then add only what I want, etc instead of say installing (K,X)Ubuntu full desktop and then removing stuff. so, do you have a usb and what do you wanna do?
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Post by amphere on Jun 19, 2010 15:51:49 GMT -5
Thanks for the followup. I do have a USB port. Can I download the file to a USB stick and then try to install to the hard drive from there? Would that verify whether the problem was the CD?
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Post by bryan on Jun 19, 2010 16:22:59 GMT -5
ok yes, grab Unetbootin from here for windows or linux unetbootin.sourceforge.net/then point Unetbootin to the nfluxos iso and tell it to install to your usb make sure it's pointed at your usb and not your hard drive then can the lappy boot from usb?
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