smauleon
October 30th, 2008, 01:05 PM
Hi,
I'm installing Ubuntu 8.04 in 20 Windows PCs in my school, in dual-boot mode. I use the livecd for that.
It worked in about half the cases. The rest give me a fatal error near the end, while installing grub. What puzzles me is that I can't find a pattern.
Some are W2000, others XP. There are three different HW configurations, but in all cases I succeeded with some units and failed with the rest. In 2 of the HP all went OK, and the other 3 give me the error. In some of them I tried several times and the error repeats (well, that's a pattern, I guess :-) )
I tried to install Vector Linux light in one of the rebels and it worked. But i prefer Ubuntu :-)
All PCs have the C: partition frozen with DeepFreeze, but I thaw them, uninstall DeepFreeze and reboot in Windows, then reboot again with the Ubuntu CD. So I don't think DeepFreeze is the cause.
Perhaps a fixmbr would help? I'm puzzled.
smauleon
I'm installing Ubuntu 8.04 in 20 Windows PCs in my school, in dual-boot mode. I use the livecd for that.
It worked in about half the cases. The rest give me a fatal error near the end, while installing grub. What puzzles me is that I can't find a pattern.
Some are W2000, others XP. There are three different HW configurations, but in all cases I succeeded with some units and failed with the rest. In 2 of the HP all went OK, and the other 3 give me the error. In some of them I tried several times and the error repeats (well, that's a pattern, I guess :-) )
I tried to install Vector Linux light in one of the rebels and it worked. But i prefer Ubuntu :-)
All PCs have the C: partition frozen with DeepFreeze, but I thaw them, uninstall DeepFreeze and reboot in Windows, then reboot again with the Ubuntu CD. So I don't think DeepFreeze is the cause.
Perhaps a fixmbr would help? I'm puzzled.
smauleon