[QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors
Luis Gonzalez
ljgonzalezjr@gmail.com
Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:35:03 -0600
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Thanks guys for all your help. I went and bought a new hard drive and
successfully installed UBUNTU 8.10 on it. I am sure that I will have more
questions as I start to learn Linux and configure my lap top. Thanks again
and look forward to the next meeting, although I feel we will be in touch
before that.
Luis
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Noah Norris <preludelinux@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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>>
>> 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
>>
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>> Dell Inspiron 1525
>>
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>> 160GB TOSHIBA MK1637GSX ATA DEVICE
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>> 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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