stevepaul
March 22nd, 2010, 03:30 AM
This is a bit strange so here goes ....
I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 with a RAID0 config (2x160Gb discs)running Vista Home Premium ...
There is 1 Partition (Vista Install)150Gb and the remaining 150Gb is unallocated ...
I am using the Alternate ISO for installing 9.10, it gets as far as the GRUB2 load when it stops and can't find any other Operating systems ...
I at first used the AMD install as my Dell has AMD processors when it failed (as above) I used the i386 version this again failed ...
However what is strange is that when I tried to install using the 9.04 version (both AMD and i386)I had no problems ...
My problem here is that as I use Mobile Broadband for my Internet connection so it will prove to be both expensive and time consuming to update from 9.04 to 9.10 ...
One thought I had was to continue the install without loading the Grub2 but as I am a complete novice to Ubuntu I would need some really detailed info on how to do this ...
I haven't got a problem with messing with the grub loader as I have BootIT NG for resetting the Vista Boot member ...
I really want to give Ubuntu a real try out now (last tried last year)now that Chrome (my favourite browser) is so up to date on Linux ...
So, any help greatly appreciated ;)
I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 with a RAID0 config (2x160Gb discs)running Vista Home Premium ...
There is 1 Partition (Vista Install)150Gb and the remaining 150Gb is unallocated ...
I am using the Alternate ISO for installing 9.10, it gets as far as the GRUB2 load when it stops and can't find any other Operating systems ...
I at first used the AMD install as my Dell has AMD processors when it failed (as above) I used the i386 version this again failed ...
However what is strange is that when I tried to install using the 9.04 version (both AMD and i386)I had no problems ...
My problem here is that as I use Mobile Broadband for my Internet connection so it will prove to be both expensive and time consuming to update from 9.04 to 9.10 ...
One thought I had was to continue the install without loading the Grub2 but as I am a complete novice to Ubuntu I would need some really detailed info on how to do this ...
I haven't got a problem with messing with the grub loader as I have BootIT NG for resetting the Vista Boot member ...
I really want to give Ubuntu a real try out now (last tried last year)now that Chrome (my favourite browser) is so up to date on Linux ...
So, any help greatly appreciated ;)