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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by luluone View Post
    Hello,

    First, thank you for that forum.

    I have a question
    I install package UNetbootin-ubuntu710rev48 on Ubuntu Feisty but I have an error 17.
    I try to defrag.

    I think it come from menu.lst

    There is my menu.lst



    In the unetbootin section what must be the root (hdx,x)?
    (Grub is on the MBR of hd0,0).
    Excuse me for my english
    Thank you for your help
    Your menu.lst indicates that (hd2,1) is where your /boot is (apparently you have a separate /boot, my partition detection scheme wasn't designed to handle that), try changing the last entry to (hd2,1)

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    Re: Problems on Windows 98

    Quote Originally Posted by asbjornu View Post
    I ran the Ubuntu 7.10 Windows installer in Windows 98 and the Windows-part of the installation seemed to go fine, but then it asks me to boot and when I do, it's like nothing happened. Grub doesn't start, I just boot directly into Windows and then UNetboot is uninstalled. Doing it again yields the exact same result.

    It seems as if UNetboot isn't able to write to the bootloader for some reason, even though I don't get any error messages. Can I debug this somehow (with a switch to unetbootin-ubuntu710rev48.exe or something)? Any help is highly appreciated!

    Oh and I didn't think of it before, but I really want Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I'm installing on a rather old laptop.
    Strange, haven't tested it too much on Win9x, that might be the issue... anyhow mind posting your C:\config.sys? Does it have anything along the lines of "Ubuntu" or "grub" written in it? It should look like described in http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wiki...r_DOS_from_DOS

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by tuxcantfly View Post
    Yes, install GRUB

    As for sudo not working, perhaps try using "su" instead
    One typo I had was what I thought was a lower case "I" for the installation of the dpkg. It turns out it was a lower case "L".

    sudo definitely does not work. However when I do a su, the system says:

    Unknown id: dpkg

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by guyver View Post
    One typo I had was what I thought was a lower case "I" for the installation of the dpkg. It turns out it was a lower case "L".

    sudo definitely does not work. However when I do a su, the system says:
    Code:
    su root
    that'll ask for root password, give it
    then afterwards, enter:

    Code:
    dpkg -i ...
    and that'll run the commands after that as root

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by tuxcantfly View Post
    Code:
    su root
    that'll ask for root password, give it
    then afterwards, enter:

    Code:
    dpkg -i ...
    and that'll run the commands after that as root
    Okay, that did the trick. But now when I try to install the Lenny dpkg, I get the following error:

    dpkg: regarding ./dpkg_1.14.7_i386.deb containing dpkg, predependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1)

    libc6 is installed, but is version 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2.

    dpkg: error processing ./dpkg_1.14.7_i386.deb (--install):
    pre-dependency problem - not installing dpkg

    Errors were encountered while processing:
    ./dpkg_1.14.7_i386.deb
    Is the Lenny dpkg imperative?
    Last edited by guyver; October 23rd, 2007 at 02:28 AM.

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by guyver View Post
    Okay, that did the trick. But now when I try to install the Lenny dpkg, I get the following error:



    Is the Lenny dpkg imperative?
    Ayay, seems like you're going to have to do a full dist-upgrade to lenny before you can upgrade to gutsy... see here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/10...etch-to-lenny/ and here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...ighlight=lenny

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by guyver View Post
    Okay, that did the trick. But now when I try to install the Lenny dpkg, I get the following error:



    Is the Lenny dpkg imperative?
    Also, the lenny floppy images on the debian ftp site can be found here: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/te.../images/floppy

    Might be easier just to start from those

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by tuxcantfly View Post
    Ayay, seems like you're going to have to do a full dist-upgrade to lenny before you can upgrade to gutsy... see here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/10...etch-to-lenny/ and here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...ighlight=lenny
    Do I also add the deb-src lines in the 2nd link you provided before the ubuntu lines within the sources.list file?

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    I went ahead with the apt-get update (using all 4 Lenny lines in example of 2nd link) and got the following error:

    Reading package lists... Error!
    E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
    E: Error occured while processing mgetty (NewVersion1)
    E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_universe_ binary-i386_Packages
    E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
    This is what I put at the beginning of my sources.list file:

    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
    deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

    deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
    If I opt to do a Feisty Xubuntu, can I avoid the Lenny dpkg?
    Last edited by guyver; October 23rd, 2007 at 02:56 AM.

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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Quote Originally Posted by guyver View Post
    I went ahead with the apt-get update (using all 4 Lenny lines in example of 2nd link) and got the following error:



    This is what I put at the beginning of my sources.list file:
    Ouch, that doesn't sound good... I think you should start again using the lenny floppies at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/te.../images/floppy that'll probably save you some time and frustration; you'll be able to upgrade directly to Gutsy that way

    As for the rest, I'm not sure; I haven't tried the Debian-to-Ubuntu-by-dist-upgrade conversion approach since Debian Sarge -> Ubuntu 5.10 so things are likely quite different now

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