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What issues are there with 64bit at the moment ?

Thanks for that info.

I know that if I stay with 32-bit, that I would need to perform two upgrades (10.04 to 10.10, then 10.10 to 11.04).

Just trying to decide whether to stick with 32-bit or...

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I currently have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit installed alongside Windows 7 32-bit.

My laptop processor is 64-bit compatible (Acer Aspire 6930G). Confirmed this via Windows 7's system...

I would guess that it forces the linux kernel to see the STA controller as a Generic IDE controller.

I also had to use that boot parameter (along with floppy=off & irqpoll, to get the installer to...

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Tried guarddog and it blocked me from accessing the net, and I was at lost on how to configure everything. So, I have installer fire starter for now, as it's one I have on my Ubuntu install and...

Did you install GRUB to the MBR or to the /boot partition ?

When you get to the GRUB menu, press e, then go down one line and press e again.

Now add this to end of boot line, after the -- ,


all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll

If it works, you will...

It booted successfully to Kubuntu.

Also, no need for me to edit menu.lst to add the extra boot parameters, as they were automatically added when the system was installed.

All 76 updates...

I'm happy to report that I now have Kubuntu installed, after 6 hours (11pm til 5am!!!)

What fix it was booting the live CD with this at the end of the boot line after --

all_generic_ide...

The error I get is 'The installer needs to remove operating system files from install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue'.

That's when I set sda2 as /boot don't format...

OK. Tried to install Kubuntu again and it failed.

Something along the lines of can't write to /boot partition.

I then exit the installer, load konsole and typed 'sudo fdisk -l' and it onlys...

OK. So I can now go ahead and install Kubuntu 8.04 ?

The reason I was worried about the 'boot' flag is because when you install linux, GRUB sets the flag on which ever partition it is installed to...

I'm ahead of you on that one lol

I used Vista's own disk manager. Wasn't going to let GParted screw up my Vista installation! lol

Yay! The GParted Live CD managed to format sba2 partition as ext3.

I also reformatted the sdb2 (root) and sdb3 (swap) partitions as ext3 and linux-swap respectively.

One thing I noticed is that...

Back again.

The installer can't format the 500Mb partition I have at the end of my laptop's internal drive. Keeps saying failed (tried ext2, ext3, and fat32 (fat32 not allowed for /boot says...

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To fix the initramfs issue, do the following...

Reboot and hit Esc when prompted to enter the boot menu. Hit 'e' to edit the first line. Next select the second line and hit 'e' again. Input...

lol. I sometimes 'speed read' posts too, but try not to.

Anyway, will give the create boot partition on internal hard drive a go, and see where it gets me. At least this way, I can use EasyBCD, so...

OK. I have also now tried the SuperGRUB cd, and that only sees my laptop's internal drive.

Looks like the USB drive can't be seen by the laptop at boot up. In BIOS, I have also tried the removable...

I have now installed Kubuntu onto the USB harddisc, which went without a hitch, once I got round the initramfs/BusyBox issue that I got when booting the Kubuntu Live CD.

The work round was press...

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I wish to install Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 to my laptop's USB hard drive.

I have already got the hard drive partitioned as:

300Gb NTFS - Used as a storage drive for music, videos, downloads,...

Use LVPM from http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm-latest.deb to resize the / (root) partition.

It shouldn't require administrator privledges, as mine didn't before I switched to a dedicated install (which thanks to a helpful online guide is booted from Vista's boot manager :D).

Don't quote me on this one, but at a guess I think the convert tool is a 'dirty' convert which doesn't correctly mark the drive as NTFS (hence the ubuntu error). Windows XP knows the drive was...

in terminal type:


sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and press Enter, then type in your password and press Enter again.

D:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub = /boot/grub in ubuntu (used drive letter D as this is where ubuntu is installed on my system).

So, /boot/grub/menu.lst and D:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub\menu.lst are both...