osbock
September 9th, 2010, 03:28 PM
I've been trying to install 10.04.1 on an older Dell Dimension 8200.
The live CD/main install failed near the end of install with no useful messages. I tried the alternate install, and 75% through the core packages, I get a media change error " Please install the disk
ubuntu-10.04.1....."
This looks like an old bug, I found this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1137319
which suggested umounting /cdrom and mounting an iso in a usb drive.
It took a while to find out when in the install process to do this, as apparently the ntfs filesystem isn't loaded until just before the partitioning step.
The workaround does work, if you skip out to a console session when it asks if you want guided partitioning, and
umount /cdrom
mount /dev/<usb device> /mnt/usb
mount -o loop /mnt/usb/<ubuntu....iso. /cdrom
ctrl-F1 to get back to the installer. and continue
The live CD/main install failed near the end of install with no useful messages. I tried the alternate install, and 75% through the core packages, I get a media change error " Please install the disk
ubuntu-10.04.1....."
This looks like an old bug, I found this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1137319
which suggested umounting /cdrom and mounting an iso in a usb drive.
It took a while to find out when in the install process to do this, as apparently the ntfs filesystem isn't loaded until just before the partitioning step.
The workaround does work, if you skip out to a console session when it asks if you want guided partitioning, and
umount /cdrom
mount /dev/<usb device> /mnt/usb
mount -o loop /mnt/usb/<ubuntu....iso. /cdrom
ctrl-F1 to get back to the installer. and continue