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Damn you Unbuntu 7.10

I thought that I'd be able to put a copy on an old 400Mhz Dell I had lying around spare. After all I had a copy of Windows XP running on it just fine (highly tweaked of course, only 13 processes).

So here I sit, on my second day of attempts. Aside from running dog slow during install, and some randome I/O buffer errors (because I didn't have a floppy drive), I keep stalling out at 15% "Detecting File Systems".

I even cleared the hard drive I was attempting to use. No paritions or anything. Very frustrating when the whle thing take so long you can only really try twice a day.

Posted by Dennis Judd at 06:30 AM | | Comments (1)

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This is just a WAG, but try booting into rescue mode on the Linux install disc and creating some dummy linux partitions on the system.

I seem to remember that solving a problem I had after trying to install Linux on a machine that previously had Windows on it.

Posted by: david | March 16, 2008 12:00 PM

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