Comments on: Step by Step Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Desktop installation guide

By: anil

anil — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:18:32 +0000

when i tried to install ubuntu 9.04
i select the partision manually .
but i could not saw any unallocated space.all disk shown are of NTFS format.i have already istalled windows XP.
i made 20 gb unallocated already.
please help me

By: krushna chandra swain

krushna chandra swain — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:15:29 +0000

currently i am having xp professional in my “c” drive. I want to install ubuntu by formatting only c drive.I am getting 4 options during installation.
Which option i have to choose.Pls help me. Its urgent.

By: vishlaini

vishlaini — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:10:29 +0000

due to this error i m not able to install ubuntu..
can any 1 help me to overcome from this problem

By: vishlaini

vishlaini — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:08:15 +0000

The installer needs to commit changes to partition tables, but cannot do so because partitions on the following mount points could not be unmounted:

/cdrom

Please close any applications using these mount points.

Would you like the installer to try to unmount these partitions again?

By: hp

hp — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:36:34 +0000

Similar to Truth above, I am getting the same error whilst installing and on exit it continues to start up the desktop. However, it seems to be running from the CD and not the Hdisk, based on the activity on CD Drive when selecting anything.

Error:
The installer encountered an error copying files to the hard disk:

[Errno 5] Input/output error

This is often due to a faulty CD/DVD disk or drive, or a faulty hard disk. It may help to clean the CD/DVD, to burn the CD/DVD at a lower speed, to clean the CD/DVD drive lens (cleaning kits are often available from electronics suppliers), to check whether the hard disk is old and in need of replacement, or to move the system to a cooler environment.

this is the error

By: Biped

Biped — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:37:18 +0000

I installed 9.04 using the upgrade, all went well but at reboot, past the first screen with Ubunto and the line showing the loading in progress, I got a screen with 5 Ubuntu lined up and at the bottom of the screen a streaked rectangle white and light grey, system frozen. Are are the requirements for display different from previous version?
Tx

By: abhishek

abhishek — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:09:30 +0000

I have installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 9.04 with XP SP2. evrything is working fine except network connection. It is recognising auto etho nut even then it is not estblishing connection. In connection setting (auto etho) it is showing never.
pls help.

By: lennon2010

lennon2010 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:46:53 +0000

i install ubuntu 9.04 inside my winxp then after reboot error appears

TRACEBACK
FILE/USR/BIN/UBIGUITY-DIR
0% SCANNING DISK
DETECTING FILE SYSTEM
COMPUTING THE NEW PARTION
FORMATING THE SWAP SPACE
1%FINDING THE DISTRIBUTING TO COPY
2%
3%
4%
400% SCANNING THE CD ROM
500% SCANNING MIRRORS

THEN AFTER 4 HOURS NOTHING HAPPENS NEXT

PLS. HELP ME?HERE’S MY SPECS

MSI P4M900M2
DUAL CORE PROC
1GB MEM
80GB HDD
DVD ROM

By: DrDilip

DrDilip — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:45:08 +0000

Please reply urgently.

By: DrDilip

DrDilip — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:42:50 +0000

I’m using Ubuntu 8.10 in my XP OS without formatting any of the partition of may hard disk. now i want to upgrade it from 8.10 to 9.04 without formatting any of the partition and also preserving my current settings and some installed application such as compiz. what to do? plese mail me detailed procedure of the installation on my e mail id. thank you.

By: Ik

Ik — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:24:55 +0000

Hi am using a IBM Thnk pad R51 its a old laptop, i cant seem to get a higher resolution.
Stuck at 800×600 ???
Any suggestion ?
Thanks in advance, also am not too familiar with Linux so kindly explain in lay men language.
Thanks again.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:05:22 +0000

Brian. I’m getting the same ||”scanning disks” mode to go into partitioning … it gets to 50 percent and simply stalls || trying to install Jaunty x64
Did you get a solution?

By: Ketul

Ketul — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:16:21 +0000

Hi there,

While installing ubuntu 9.04, I am getting following error.

Access denied. please read ../wubi-9.04-rev128.log

->This file is in documents/temp/

By: Ivan Luís Kuhn

Ivan Luís Kuhn — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:02:48 +0000

In some machines, when chose or run, or install, maybe necessary press F6, and in “other options” put “noapic”. In other way, without this, It’s not possible run the ubuntu.

It’s a bios problem. In mine ASUS M2N-X-Plus, it’s necessary

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:15:02 +0000

OK. I created a partition, unformatted, to use for Ubuntu. It gives me some funky development message or something, than goes into a “scanning disks” mode to go into partitioning … it gets to 50 percent and simply stalls out. How long does this / should this take? This is 9.04 I have from the Ubuntu site, 64-bit.

By: jecko

jecko — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:30:50 +0000

@everybody

Thank you…i’m proceeding:)

By: truth

truth — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:28:25 +0000

The installer encountered an error copying files to the hard disk:

[Errno 5] Input/output error

this is the error

By: truth

truth — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:22:42 +0000

why is it when I did everything right I install the product and at the screen where it says installing system it stays at 44% and then shows an error telling me I had a dirty DVD-RW or w/e why wont it work?

does anyone have a solution for that?

By: scroobious

scroobious — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:35 +0000

@jecko: The above comments are all correct w/r/t your /home directory.

However:
- If you want to do a clean system install
- And have your /home directory on its own partition
- AND you want to keep ext3,

You can use the disk. When you get to the partitioning part, set the /home directory in the partitioner to point to your existing /home partition, and DON’T format it.

You can then choose the other / (root) partition and format that for the clean install. That will automatically recognize your /home partition as already there and formatted, and it’ll pull in your settings.

Know that any new applications you installed in 8.10 that weren’t in the original install won’t be there, but their menu directories will be there.

So say you had Deluge installed, and you just did the upgrade from disk as described above. You could click on Deluge in the Applications menu, but it’ll spit an error because Deluge doesn’t come with the basic installation. Do a sudo apt-get install deluge, and not only will it be back in place, but any settings you had for it will be configured -- and you’ll be at the latest version available in Synaptic. Pretty slick.

By: Pe Bakk

Pe Bakk — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:45:01 +0000

@jecko: Easiest to upgrade as Agyeya said however you are correct in that /home will still retain all your old user data.
You’ll need to create “new” user accounts so the username matches the user folders in /home, as well. This way you should be able to log into their respective accounts and will see all their files right away.