ugriffin
September 19th, 2009, 11:59 PM
Recently I convinced one of my friends to switch his Acer Aspire One from Windows to Ubuntu. All was set, and I took the netbook home.
So, I made a LiveUSB, and tried to install. The installation crashed at 56%. After fixing the HD itself for sector errors and lots of junk, I downloaded the Alternate CD. It installed the Base system, and then failed after a while on the next step. Good, I've got a basic Linux system on the netbook, all I need to do is install ubuntu-desktop. Easy.
Problem is, apt-get and aptitude (remember I'm running from a terminal... this is a minimal install) don't download the packages (even though the thing is connected to the net... it pings properly.), they ask for "ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" i386 on "/cdrom/"
ok.
sudo mount -o loop /iso for the cd/ /media/cdrom/
Fail. It still asks for the CD
sudo mount -o loop /iso for the cd/ /cdrom/
Fail. It still asks.
Now what? I've got a useless system (from the typical user's viewpoint) and I can't hand it in like that.
Please... help. Can I somehow force apt to download instead of stupidly requesting the cd? What...on....earth can I do? I'd prefer if you helped me bring this install to a typical ubuntu one... freaky install methods probably won't work and anyways there has to be a way.
Thanks in advance, help me recruit a new Linux convert. :guitar:
So, I made a LiveUSB, and tried to install. The installation crashed at 56%. After fixing the HD itself for sector errors and lots of junk, I downloaded the Alternate CD. It installed the Base system, and then failed after a while on the next step. Good, I've got a basic Linux system on the netbook, all I need to do is install ubuntu-desktop. Easy.
Problem is, apt-get and aptitude (remember I'm running from a terminal... this is a minimal install) don't download the packages (even though the thing is connected to the net... it pings properly.), they ask for "ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" i386 on "/cdrom/"
ok.
sudo mount -o loop /iso for the cd/ /media/cdrom/
Fail. It still asks for the CD
sudo mount -o loop /iso for the cd/ /cdrom/
Fail. It still asks.
Now what? I've got a useless system (from the typical user's viewpoint) and I can't hand it in like that.
Please... help. Can I somehow force apt to download instead of stupidly requesting the cd? What...on....earth can I do? I'd prefer if you helped me bring this install to a typical ubuntu one... freaky install methods probably won't work and anyways there has to be a way.
Thanks in advance, help me recruit a new Linux convert. :guitar: