Xanrov
July 26th, 2009, 02:04 PM
1°) From a Mac-Pro (8 CPU, 26 GB Ram) I downloaded and burned on CD, several times from different european sites, because of the problems hereunder exposed, Ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso. The discs produced checked OK with their imbedded integrity program
2°) then I tried to install this version on a Windows Vista computer, on a 200 GB disk on which I had made a partition of 12GB, close to the begining of the disk, plus a swap partition of 2 GB, located towards the middle of the disk.The first partition was to be formatted ext3 journaled and be on mount point /. The installation started OK but, at the very end, Grub installation failed 9with a message saying "Fatal Error". I repeated the operation several times, with different disks, asking installation either on hd0 (the default) or on the ext3 partition itself, the failure was the same
3°)After that, having VMware 2.0.5 on the Mac, I tried to install Ubuntu 9.0.4 as a virtual Machine. VMware provides an "Easy Linux Install" which doesn't work with Ubuntu versions but there is little difficulty in following the "classical" course of Ubuntu installation. Well, I made several tentatives , with different disks, with the same failure : The install starts pretty normally, but when approximatively 70% have been copied, the CD reading stops, and the Mac is frozen. It has to be restarted by switching it off.
I'm completely puzzled. Of course VMWare could ( and can) be incriminated. But I downloaded and installed without any problem Ubuntu 8.04.2 "TLS" as a virtual machine, on which I'm writing now.
So, what's wrong with version 9.04 ? (a pity , It looks nice).
Thanks for any advice
2°) then I tried to install this version on a Windows Vista computer, on a 200 GB disk on which I had made a partition of 12GB, close to the begining of the disk, plus a swap partition of 2 GB, located towards the middle of the disk.The first partition was to be formatted ext3 journaled and be on mount point /. The installation started OK but, at the very end, Grub installation failed 9with a message saying "Fatal Error". I repeated the operation several times, with different disks, asking installation either on hd0 (the default) or on the ext3 partition itself, the failure was the same
3°)After that, having VMware 2.0.5 on the Mac, I tried to install Ubuntu 9.0.4 as a virtual Machine. VMware provides an "Easy Linux Install" which doesn't work with Ubuntu versions but there is little difficulty in following the "classical" course of Ubuntu installation. Well, I made several tentatives , with different disks, with the same failure : The install starts pretty normally, but when approximatively 70% have been copied, the CD reading stops, and the Mac is frozen. It has to be restarted by switching it off.
I'm completely puzzled. Of course VMWare could ( and can) be incriminated. But I downloaded and installed without any problem Ubuntu 8.04.2 "TLS" as a virtual machine, on which I'm writing now.
So, what's wrong with version 9.04 ? (a pity , It looks nice).
Thanks for any advice