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RichFlorida
May 25th, 2011, 12:31 PM
I am trying to install the netbook 10.04 version of Ubuntu on an Asus EeePC 1201HAB.

The netbook had a 4G SD Drive that I use instead of a hard disk.

Every time I try to install to the 4G drive the install stops at 43% with [Errno 5]. I have checked the drive, reformatted the drive, re-partitioned the drive and I do not get any errors on the drive except when I install.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rich
Quackers
May 25th, 2011, 01:16 PM
Welcome to UF :-)
Have you checked the md5sum of the downloaded iso file?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

If that checks out ok boot from the live cd and at the first purple screen press any key. Then choose your language and on the next screen choose the "check cd for errors". If any error is found the disc is no good.
You can then try burning the image again using the slowest possible burn speed. Others have got past this problem by changing the brand of the cd.
RichFlorida
May 25th, 2011, 04:11 PM
I verified the checksum and it is ok. Btw I am booting from usb, not CD.
psusi
May 25th, 2011, 04:14 PM
There has to be more text and/or context to the error than "errno 5".
Quackers
May 25th, 2011, 04:18 PM
The process (and error checking) is the same for cd and usb.
RichFlorida
May 25th, 2011, 04:44 PM
As I said before the check sum is correct.

The error(errno5) is a general read/write error.
Quackers
May 25th, 2011, 04:46 PM
As I said before the check sum is correct.

The error(errno5) is a general read/write error.

I was referring to cd checking (or usb checking), not md5sum
RichFlorida
May 25th, 2011, 05:22 PM
I completed both a read and read/write check on the usb drive without errors.
danieljames626
July 20th, 2011, 03:35 AM
I had this same difficulty and solved it. I burnt the .iso to a new disk and still had a problem. I used the usb disk creator and still had a problem trying to install from usb, even though ubuntu worked fine live off the cd's and the usb.

What seemed to work is that I downloaded the .iso again and started over. It seems that somehow the error was either in the .iso at the time I did the initial download or the file was corrupted the first time I downloaded it.

Try downloading again.