[QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors
Noah Norris
preludelinux@gmail.com
Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:29:05 -0600
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OK from what we all could gather from seeing the hardware is that its most
likely a bad hard drive.
IO errors where from the hard drive - during installs (with the ubuntu and
the Debian based partitioning disk) eventually we heard sounds of the
platter crashing !!!
One way to test this is to use dells disk utility or find out the
manufacture of the hard drive and run its special dos based tools. these
tools can attemp to remap sectors and prolongs a failing drives life. i did
install smartmon tools its didnt seem to support online testing modes and
the log not being readable. ( you can try the ultimate boot cd it has a
couple disk based tools. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ )
It seems vista never triggered this sound and there is no disk based errors
in the device manager (of course another test is to have vista use the whole
disk and start filling it and see if you get the same sound and disk errors
under system in the event log. if this is a hard drive failing it should
fail at some point in windows another notice of a failing drive in windows
during your filling the hard drive is windows can just become un-responsive
and just plan lock up or super slow as it resets the drive and trys to read
the sector)
i do have a dell laptop with sata hard drives and as a test i can see if my
drive would boot on your laptop. (the disk controlers pretty sure are the
same)
check out www.newegg.com i just replaced a failing drive for a persons
laptop and for like 70$ got like a 320GB drive.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Mike Robinson <fatpuppystew@gmail.com>wrote:
> thought I'd weigh in on this though I'm a noob myself compared to all
> the other advice your getting.
>
> That said, I ran into the same problem your facing on a Acer notebook.
> Did all the usual googling and found others with the same problem,
> though no solutions - best guess in the threads was a bios compatibility
> problem. Still no joy after updating the bios and chipset drivers.
>
> Solution: If your not locked into Ubuntu, try a different flavor of
> Linux. Fedora and Ubuntu failed for me, but Suse worked (I still don't
> know how).
>
> If your interested go to the site below, download and create a live CD.
>
> http://software.opensuse.org/
>
> Mike Robinson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Gonzalez <ljgonzalezjr@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: qclug@qclug.org
> To: qclug@qclug.org
> Subject: Re: [QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:01:16 -0600
>
> Just tried the gparted live CD. I set 52GB for Ext3 and 1.94GB for
> Linux-Swap. When it started to partition ext3 it failed as well. I
> don't know what it can be. It seems that it just doesn't want linux on
> it. Yesterday when I tried the whole disc, I had the same thing
> happen, and lost VISTA and Everything. But when I went to reinstall
> VISTA so that I can have an OS to work with, the installation went
> smooth. I don't know if there is some kind of proprietary code not
> letting me install any other OS. I will not give up on Linux, if I
> can't get it to work on this machine, then I will buy another that I can
> install it on. Does anyone know if Best Buys Geek Squad might be able
> to help? Thanks for all the help though.
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Aaron Johnson <acjohnson@pcdomain.com>
> wrote:
> Just a thought, you could try to first partition the disk using
> the gparted live CD: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> From: qclug-bounces@qclug.org [mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org]
> On Behalf Of Luis Gonzalez
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:37 PM
> To: qclug@qclug.org
> Subject: Re: [QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors
>
>
>
>
>
> Erro Message:
>
>
> Failed to create a file system
>
>
> The ext3 file system creation in partition #5 of SCSI1 (0.0.0)
> (sda) failed.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Luis Gonzalez
> <ljgonzalezjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is the specs for the laptop below
>
>
>
>
>
> Dell Inspiron 1525
>
>
> 160GB TOSHIBA MK1637GSX ATA DEVICE
>
>
> INTEL(R) PENTIUM(R) DUAL CPU T2330 @1.60GHZ
>
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> RAM: 2038MB
>
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> 32 bit Operating System
>
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> Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Tim Shearouse
> <t.shearouse@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it a Seagate hard drive, somewhere in the 750GB - 1.5TB
> range? There are some firmware issues with some recent
> drives...
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Luis Gonzalez
> <ljgonzalezjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I checked the integrity of the disk and came back with no
> errors. I went and repartitioned within VISTA, tried it guided
> using free space and got same error. I know that once I quit
> out it gives a black screen with two lines of code, it goes so
> fast that I can't remember what it says but I know it says
> 'FIRMWARE' in the lines. I don't know what to do. I can't even
> have it take over my complete hard drive. I tried two different
> DVDs, one with 8.10 that I got off a magazine I bought and one
> with 8.04 that came with the book I bought. I think I will have
> to go shop for a new laptop just so that I can learn and enjoy
> Linux, freeing myself for MS.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Mark Riedesel
> <mriedesel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bad disc is possible, when the disk first starts up there should
> be an
> option to check the disc integrity.
>
>
> On 1/26/09, Aaron Johnson <acjohnson@pcdomain.com> wrote:
> > Check your Ubuntu CD. It sounds like you may have a bad disk.
> You may need
> > to re-download the ISO. How did you download it, did you use
> the Ubuntu
> > mirrors or did you use the torrent. I would highly recommend
> downloading it
> > via the torrent because it does much better CRC and error
> checking than http
>
>
> > does. Try using uTorrent (www.utorrent.com
> <http://www.utorrent.com/> ) or
>
> > something similar.
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: qclug-bounces@qclug.org [mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org]
> On Behalf Of
> > Luis Gonzalez
> > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 6:51 PM
> > To: qclug@qclug.org
> > Subject: [QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors
> >
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to know if anyone could help me with this
> installation
> > error. I am currently running Vista and have tried to install
> Ubuntu 8.10
> > in order to dual boot. I keep getting the following error. At
> 5% it says
> > that ext3 failed, and returns me to the partintionar. I have
> tried it so
> > that the partitioner allocates the appropriate space. I have
> tried using
> > the whole disc, and I have even tried shrinking my current
> drive in vista to
> > free up space for Ubuntu. I keep getting the same error. Can
> anyone help.
> > I just would like to have Ubuntu and Vista on the same PC. I
> need to keep
> > Vista for my wife, but if not I am willing to just have Ubuntu
> and get rid
> > of Windows all together. Any help would be welcomed. I live
> in Davenport,
> > and I am willing to meet at a Starbucks or Panera if anyone is
> interested.
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Luis J Gonzalez Jr.
> >
> >
>
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