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Feedback on the Dell Vostro 3250 - install ubuntu error

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I buyed a vostro 3250 with ubuntu 14,04.

I Formatted everything and need to reinstall ubuntu 16.04 but something is wrong. In the end of the instalation a message appears : " this cputer has only 0 bytes disk space remaining. The instalation setup program stops and dont intall ubuntu. I dont know what is happening.

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) said : 		#1

Hello,
what's the reason that makes you decide to reinstall Ubuntu instead of keep using the pre-installed version?

This issue might be caused by a wrong destination of installation (e.g. install on the USB, not the HDD), and it needs more information to debug this, I would suggest you to go to the community [1][2]

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[1] askubuntu.com
[2] ubuntuforum.com

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lub (lubsalvador) said : 		#2

I wanted to install the version Ubuntu 16.04 in dual boot with win 10!. That 's the reason i have formatted everything. I seach online a solution a then a ifoound it !!! Its nececessary to edit a boot line in the endo of the boot script like this :

I met similar issues with you and finally I found a helpful post.

We should disable “PCI power management” to fix PCIe Bus error. Below is the steps I followed from that post:

When trying to install, at the initial 'grub' screen that asks you to select (1) Try Ubuntu (2) Install directly (3) OEM install etc. Place the selector over option 1 and press the key E to edit the grub boot command. On the third line just after quiet splash, add a space and the string pcie_aspm=off and press F10 to continue the boot. This will allow you to start 15.10 from a USB/DVD and install to disk.

That just installs to disk. You will have to manually update the Grub boot command every time you boot into Linux until you implement the fix in the grub config file. For this edit /etc/default/grub using your favourite editor and make sure the follow line is present:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pcie_aspm=off"
This file is a “script that generates a script” so you have to run sudo update-grub to propagate this to the real Grub config files (/boot/grub/grub.cfg).