RitterEvans
August 9th, 2009, 11:07 AM
Hey all,
Have decided to give Ubuntu a boot on recommendation of a few friends and am running into a few problems..
First off I tried to install 9.04 onto a laptop already running XP and with 3 other partitions. Using the partition manager in the installer I attempted to erase these 3 and instate 3 new partitions, one /, one /home and a swap. Attempting installs from the CD and/or the hard drive (using Unetbootin) have results in failures, with the installer errors being essentially "Unable to unmount /cdrom, try again?" which brings me back to the partition manager.
I then tried to install 8.10, and whilst this version installed, it shows the boot logo and then loads to a blank screen.
All this has left me fairly scratching my head...
Another, possibly related issue is the curiousity that seems to be my desktop resolution in both Installers. When the Live CD loads, the mouse is presented to me as being in the bottom right quadrant of the screen whilst Ubuntu seems to think this is the middle of the screen, judging from its autoplacement of various windows.
This one's really baffling me guys, any help appreciated!
Have decided to give Ubuntu a boot on recommendation of a few friends and am running into a few problems..
First off I tried to install 9.04 onto a laptop already running XP and with 3 other partitions. Using the partition manager in the installer I attempted to erase these 3 and instate 3 new partitions, one /, one /home and a swap. Attempting installs from the CD and/or the hard drive (using Unetbootin) have results in failures, with the installer errors being essentially "Unable to unmount /cdrom, try again?" which brings me back to the partition manager.
I then tried to install 8.10, and whilst this version installed, it shows the boot logo and then loads to a blank screen.
All this has left me fairly scratching my head...
Another, possibly related issue is the curiousity that seems to be my desktop resolution in both Installers. When the Live CD loads, the mouse is presented to me as being in the bottom right quadrant of the screen whilst Ubuntu seems to think this is the middle of the screen, judging from its autoplacement of various windows.
This one's really baffling me guys, any help appreciated!