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Thread: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

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    Angry Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Hi. I get the error "initializing gfx code" when i try to start ubuntu. What could i do?
    Last edited by razerita; May 1st, 2008 at 02:50 PM.

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    What sort of graphics card do you have?

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Intel 915

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Have you installed or is this with the live CD?

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Live cd, i can't boot

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    It might be a bad CD burn or ISO download then. Try re-downloading the ISO and buring it to CD-R at a much slower rate to be safe.

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Quote Originally Posted by njparton View Post
    It might be a bad CD burn or ISO download then. Try re-downloading the ISO and buring it to CD-R at a much slower rate to be safe.
    I think the answer might lie in another thread regarding a corrupt squashfs. It seems that the iso itself is too big to be burned at least on some systems.

    Can you mount the iso directly, as a "virtual CD"? That's how I get VirtualBox to create my installations and it seems to work. Problems exist afterwards but at least the process happens.

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Quote Originally Posted by random006 View Post
    Can you mount the iso directly, as a "virtual CD"? That's how I get VirtualBox to create my installations and it seems to work. Problems exist afterwards but at least the process happens.
    Yes i can, but, how to install with virtualbox?

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    Re: Can't install ubuntu 8.04

    Quote Originally Posted by razerita View Post
    Yes i can, but, how to install with virtualbox?
    Innotek's VirtualBox is a virtual machine creator and player similar to VMware, only free. Using VirtualBox, I now have virtual XP and Ubuntu linux machines that I can run on my Vista box. I can now test out various S/W installs without hurting my "real" system.

    You don't say if that is what you are doing, so I'm not sure whether the above would work for you.

    The point I was getting at was referring to the ability to mount the iso as a disk image in whatever is your main OS on your computer. An example would be Apple's Disk Utility.

    That way you have the option of doing a non-virtual install on your computer, something it seems most people here want to do.

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