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Bigs11
November 26th, 2010, 06:18 AM
I've installed previous Ubuntu and other linux distros in the past, so I have a fair idea what I'm doing.
I downloaded the official Ubuntu 10.10 ISO from Canononical, burned to CD and booted from that.
I chose to install, using an existing swap partition, and a freshly formatted (ext4) partition, with mount point "/" as root.
The installation runs fine up to where I enter my User, Computer and Login details.
The forward button to continue, remains greyed out, even tho the copying of files finishes and says down the bottom that I'm ready to go.
At this point, I can't exit, log out, or do a proper restart.
Only a forced reset of the computer gets me out of the installation.
No files get installed on the partition, but the MBR does get written to.
And obviously I get an error trying to boot to it.
I've tried this same procedure 3 times now, with exactly the same result each time.
Any ideas, people?
Thanks in advance :p

Quackers
November 26th, 2010, 06:23 AM
Did you start your username with a capital letter? No capitals allowed at the start of username. It should flag an error but it doesn't. Try again without a capital.

Bigs11
November 26th, 2010, 06:26 AM
I used Capitals on all three information areas.
I'm sure I've done that in the past with other distros.
I will try that tomorrow with all lowercase, and let you all know the outcome.
Thanks for the help.

carl4926
November 26th, 2010, 06:27 AM
Did you run the media check from the cd boot menu? To check the integrity of the cd

Bigs11
November 26th, 2010, 11:14 AM
Nope, how do I do that?
You mean the checksum?

carl4926
November 26th, 2010, 12:14 PM
Boot the live cd
get to the boot menu and choose it from there

Bigs11
November 27th, 2010, 06:44 AM
Was just the uppercase username.
Soon as I used lowercase, it let me finish the install.
Allś good.
Thanks for the help.
How do I mark this as solved?

szigetir
November 27th, 2010, 07:53 AM
10.10 install doesn't finish for me neither. The progress hangs. at 97%.