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Trying to Install Ubuntu
I am booting from DVD-R.
I created the partition about 18 gig.
2 for the swap file.
This will be duel boot for windows. Well more like Quad Boot.
I am actually doing this for my A+ certification class.
I will eventually be putting Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro on it soon.
Since I have to find copies of those I am starting out with Ubuntu first
since it is free and the fact that the other two require me to go out to buy a
USB floppy because I need to install SATA drivers at the begging of the setup... Yeah go! F6 boot... *lol*
When I install Ubuntu, half way through the install I get a hard drive error sayin that the it has errors sending files to the hard drive. It was basically an overheat error. (but only happens at 52% of installation???) It gave me a situation that I should put it on a cooling pad if i was going to install this again. I thought maybe there was a bad sector. I booted into Windows 7. I had to reformat it back into NTFS and it told me it was a healthy partition. No problems! I cleaned my CD rom of any dust from the drive and the lens an even the disc.
Any ideas? oh BTW... can ubuntu run on a NTFS file system or does it have to be that EXT2 one?
The only thing i can think of now is redownload the OS from the website and burn t toanother CD but make it a REGULAR CD-R... instead of DVD-R..maybe my laptop doesn't get any kicks out of it being a DVD cd.