jbaserga
February 16th, 2010, 06:53 PM
Hi all,
I am trying to install Ubuntu Karmic in a little workstation with an 8 GB drive. Live CD works fine, gparted can partition the disk, but when it tries to copy the files the installer gives an error (/target is read only).
Disk Utility can see the drive and all test are OK.
The only strange thing I can see is that the disk geometry differs from the one that is declared by the BIOS.
In the console I can see many write errors, but as I said before, disk tests are OK.
Worst part is that Win XP installed flawlessly (so I can discard disk physical problems),
I tried disabling BIOS Autodetection, LBA and putting the geometry by hand with the same results. The disk is Master of the primary IDE controller (I saw a thread that mentioned this as a possible solution for this problem).
Any hints?
Regards
Juan Pablo
I am trying to install Ubuntu Karmic in a little workstation with an 8 GB drive. Live CD works fine, gparted can partition the disk, but when it tries to copy the files the installer gives an error (/target is read only).
Disk Utility can see the drive and all test are OK.
The only strange thing I can see is that the disk geometry differs from the one that is declared by the BIOS.
In the console I can see many write errors, but as I said before, disk tests are OK.
Worst part is that Win XP installed flawlessly (so I can discard disk physical problems),
I tried disabling BIOS Autodetection, LBA and putting the geometry by hand with the same results. The disk is Master of the primary IDE controller (I saw a thread that mentioned this as a possible solution for this problem).
Any hints?
Regards
Juan Pablo