Tarhawk
March 19th, 2011, 04:28 PM
I am new to Ubuntu, I have erased Windows 7 partition (I am never going back to the worthless world of MS so someone please help me get this ironed out) and am wanting to use Ubuntu exclusively. I have tried to install both 10.10, and the 10.4 LTS and I am running into the same problem. I have looked over the forums and cannot find a thread whose solutions have worked for my particular manifestation of the I/O error install problem.
To begin: My system is a lenovo thinkpad R400 dual core pentium. I can run both 10.10 & 10.04 from the live cd. I am burning ISO image to CD from website, I have tried different burning media and still same result, as well I have tried slower burn speeds with same result.
Both 10.10, and 10.04 install fine and go through the entire setup like it should. I get to the end of the setup, it asks me to restart, I restart system and it goes to DOS-like prompt(I am an amateur)where it looks like it is loading the system but then it spits out a long list of I/O sector errors at which point I press enter to restart the system and the system then boots from the live CD and not the hard drive. I think that that my system is looking for something on the CD to close out the install but this is just a wild guess: do I need to possibly format the disk differently before I burn it? Like I said, I have tried this with both systems, and with different installation configurations and am always ending up with the same result.
I do not think it could be my media as I have switched it multiple times, I do not think it could be the burning hardware b/c I have used 3 different computers and burners to make the ISO CD.
One last though hiccup: would install possibly be successful if I ran it from inside the live cd operating system, meaning could I install from with in the trial version of Ubuntu?
To begin: My system is a lenovo thinkpad R400 dual core pentium. I can run both 10.10 & 10.04 from the live cd. I am burning ISO image to CD from website, I have tried different burning media and still same result, as well I have tried slower burn speeds with same result.
Both 10.10, and 10.04 install fine and go through the entire setup like it should. I get to the end of the setup, it asks me to restart, I restart system and it goes to DOS-like prompt(I am an amateur)where it looks like it is loading the system but then it spits out a long list of I/O sector errors at which point I press enter to restart the system and the system then boots from the live CD and not the hard drive. I think that that my system is looking for something on the CD to close out the install but this is just a wild guess: do I need to possibly format the disk differently before I burn it? Like I said, I have tried this with both systems, and with different installation configurations and am always ending up with the same result.
I do not think it could be my media as I have switched it multiple times, I do not think it could be the burning hardware b/c I have used 3 different computers and burners to make the ISO CD.
One last though hiccup: would install possibly be successful if I ran it from inside the live cd operating system, meaning could I install from with in the trial version of Ubuntu?