ubuntu installation issues?

Question

okay, so i erased and reformatted my HD.

i have about 20GB for XP, whish is installed.
i set aside 20GB for ubunto
and 7 gig for the swap drive

so when i put the ubuntu CD i made in, i go to manual select the drive. when i put it on XFS3 , i get to 15% before i get an "errno5 input/output error". When i changed it to just XFS, i got to 28% before the error.

can someone tell me what the hell is going on?? at this point, i have been working with this computer for over 10 hours. This ubuntu iso took like 2.5 hours for me to download. I'm fed up at this point. I'll try writing the CD at a speed lower that 24, but i really don't see the difference.

Answer 1

ElfaGeek is right. I NEVER write a data disk faster than 8x. In addition you check the md5sum and/or the sha1sum of the iso file before burrning it if you don't want trouble. Final thought -- and I'm glad to see that you are getting somewhere -- I have trouble with ubuntu when I set the file type as anything but ext 2 or 3. If that's what you mean fine, but if you mean xfs, that always worked better for me with other distros.

Answer 2

512k ram is about final analysis. yet i'm operating xubuntu 10.04 on an previous dell personal computer with a p-III 866mhz and 512k ram. it quite works really strong. probably your processor may be the precedence. Ubuntu recommends a million ghz processor and 512 ram. you should drop all the way down to a tender-weight version. attempt Xubuuntu, Lubuntu, or maybe Ubuntu computing device remix.

Answer 3

Did you verify the MD5sum after you downloaded Ubuntu, but before you burned the ISO?



It's all explained here:



FYI: An MD5sum string mismatch means the downloaded ISO is corrupted, and you'll have to download it again.



"I'll try writing the CD at a speed lower than 24, but i really don't see the difference."



The closer to 4X you can get, the better, IMHO.

Answer 4

Before you jump the gun and make another disc, why don't you test the disc out first? It could be that the disc is just fine and that you are simply doing something incorrectly.



When you boot from the disc, one of the options is to Test disc, choose that one and see what it comes out with.



Plus if you were having that much trouble, you should have gone to the Ubuntu Forums. They probably would have made things a bit easier for you.

http://ubuntuforums.org/

Answer 5

go to ubuntu and join there forum theres alot of people there willing to help guide you..steve

Answer 6

oh thats easy, just go to a dell/(your company's) website and request for help and they'll take control of your screen and fix it while u sleep/eat/(do stuff)! all depends on the company that made the cd/computer