mangurian2
February 18th, 2017, 04:56 PM
I booted from the latest dvd and selected INSTALL.
I had an external HD with two partitions (1.8T and 100Gig)
I selectedthe option to also install 3rd party items (mp3 etc).
When the part about where to install came up I chose the 100G and got a msg something like "no boot sector"?
I formatted the 100G partition as ext3 and set /boot.
I then chose the 1.8T partition (NTFS) for swap.
Off it went - chose location, chose English
The machine went chugging along happily for a while.
I went back to the computer and there was a msg saying either the DVD or the HDD was bad.
Could it be something else? How about my options? Is ext3 correct? Is selecting /boot on the 100Gig right/ok ? Can the swap be NTFS ?
I am installing from an old laptop with small amount of RAM - could that be the problem ???
Thanks
I really want Ubuntu.
I had an external HD with two partitions (1.8T and 100Gig)
I selectedthe option to also install 3rd party items (mp3 etc).
When the part about where to install came up I chose the 100G and got a msg something like "no boot sector"?
I formatted the 100G partition as ext3 and set /boot.
I then chose the 1.8T partition (NTFS) for swap.
Off it went - chose location, chose English
The machine went chugging along happily for a while.
I went back to the computer and there was a msg saying either the DVD or the HDD was bad.
Could it be something else? How about my options? Is ext3 correct? Is selecting /boot on the 100Gig right/ok ? Can the swap be NTFS ?
I am installing from an old laptop with small amount of RAM - could that be the problem ???
Thanks
I really want Ubuntu.