Is my U10,04 installation workable?

[Randy Schilling]

System: Intel EM64T Pentium(D)
Problems with U10.04 installation:
1. Live Ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso cd does not boot consistently; meaning
there might be 1, 2, or 3 failed boot attempts before a successful boot into the cd.
iso was dloaded using bittorents and its md5 hashes were verified after burning.
Boots attempts fail at screen with 5 progression dots.
2. Installed U10.04 suffers same boot inconsistencies.
3. Post installation problems.
a. Tried to create a new directory using mkdir from a terminal. Response:
"mkdir: cannot make directory 'com'. Read only file sytem."
b. Tried to install 149 updates using Update Manager. Clicked Install - no response.
c. In one session system stopped responding to any and all clicks.
Click on a menu item - no response.
For example click on Restart - no response. Had to hard boot.

Do I have a workable installtion? What's causing my problems?

[darkod]

Did you burn the cd at low speed, like 4x? The ISO might have been good, but the burn bad.

[aphatak]

Ubuntu 10.04 works beautifully with Pentium D - I have one working as a home theater PC. I would suspect the CD burn. If you have another PC, you might want to set it up with TFTP server, and try a network boot. Alternatively, you could try putting the live image on a USB drive and boot from that.

[Randy Schilling]

I burned the cd at 4X and verified md5 hashes on the newly burned live cd.

Anyway, I'll try suggestion to use my USB drive. If that fails, I'll try download/burn from a friend's pc,
and if that fails I'll try to learn something about TFTP and network booting.

Its encourqging to hear that U10.04 works with Pentium D. Thanks

[Randy Schilling]

The responses to my post convinced me that my problem was in burning the live cd.

I tried the burn one more time with both my cd/dvd drives, each failed with boot problems.

Then I put the image on a USB stick. Things went smoothly from there. - Many Thanks