Buffer error

Hi

fd0 is the Floppy Disk device. If you don't have a floppy drive, make sure that it's not enabled in BIOS. If you do have a floppy drive, make sure that it's not faulty.

I hope this helps :)

Regards, Trygve

Thanks. I disabled the floppy in BIOS. Now however, I find my self in
BusyBox. I have tried selecting safe mode (F4) but still go to BusyBox.
What am I missing?

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Trygve Vea proposed the following answer:
Hi

fd0 is the Floppy Disk device. If you don't have a floppy drive, make
sure that it's not enabled in BIOS. If you do have a floppy drive, make
sure that it's not faulty.

I hope this helps :)

Regards, Trygve

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Do you get any error messages?

If not; Does the last few lines when you run the command 'dmesg' look any interesting?

Is the hardware sufficient for running xubuntu? Have you tried the alternate install cd (requires much less system resources during installation)?

Regards, Trygve

As far as I know the computer is sufficient. It is an AMD Athlon 64 with 2
gigs of RAM running at 2.4 GHz. The C:\ is 250 gigs and the D:\ is 500
gigs. Several hundreds gigs left on both.

There are no error messages, I just go straight to the BusyBox (what ever
that is)

Typing dmesg in BusyBox gives me several pages of information. Nothing
appears wrong, just information.

Hard to test Ubuntu when you cant even get there.

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Do you get any error messages?

If not; Does the last few lines when you run the command 'dmesg' look
any interesting?

Is the hardware sufficient for running xubuntu? Have you tried the
alternate install cd (requires much less system resources during
installation)?

Regards, Trygve

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Your computer is most likely sufficient. Why you boot into Busybox is very hard for me to diagnose, I'm afraid. I have one last suggestion though: You could check in the BIOS if there is an option of setting the disk controller in native mode. Doing that may cause an existing operating system installation to remain unbootable until the option is changed back, but it's absolutely worth a try.

Or: You could try to install Ubuntu from Windows, and see if that works better for you. (There's a fully functional installer for Windows on the Ubuntu-CD)

I hope this helps

Regards, Trygve

Please try to pass some boot kernel parameters i suggest you to pass this parameters

noacpi nolapic nodma all_generic_ide

Here how to

- if something go wrong at startup of Ubuntu live installation when you see the first cd menu like this http://i18.tinypic.com/6tzzndc.jpg pressing F6 you can put useful startup kernel boot parameters https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions as showed here

Other suggestions

Try to perform the "Memory test" and the "Check cd for defects" to be sure the cd is read without errors by the destination pc cdrom driver

- Booting from Ubuntu live install cd:
 * if you are in trouble with screen graphic user interface
   (usually the screen is black with a blinking cursor or screen out of range message):
- first try to dynamically change screen resolution please the press CTRL + ALT + "+" and/or CTRL + ALT + "-"
- Try to restart the graphic layer press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE
- Here the basic step required during install process http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-8.04-lts-hardy-heron

If this don't work i suggest you to download and burn on a cd at lower speed you can do (4x), here an howto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto, the Ubuntu alternate install cd iso image ( ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-i386.iso ) you can download this cd from here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04.1/

If you are in trouble to download you can try to install and use a torrent client Deluge http://www.deluge-torrent.org/downloads.php to get your desired Ubuntu iso image http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04.1/ please select a .torrent file

Hope this helps

Here at the office I have many computers. On the 4th computer I tried, I finally got Ubuntu to boot up. Perhaps I will just wait until the next version to try again on the computer I really want it on. Apparently Ubuntu is way too unstable at the moment.

Like all Unix you must spend some of your time ( based on your experience) to configure them but after they are very stable, they are used of major organization financial bank and others like:

http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+contains&host=nasa.gov&lookup=wait..&position=limited

I use Linux on my internet/intranet servers from the year 1998, never reinstalled or have any big trouble.

No virus, no spyware, automatic full system and all installed applications upgrade (security or new release).

I choose Ubuntu on my desktops from release 6.04 i don't use other operative system and i'm very happy with Linux.

The very good feature of Ubuntu is the free user support, like this site, where you can get always an answer...!

For usual office (it came with already installed and ready to run www.openoffice.org) work Ubuntu is very good.

Hope this helps.

Thank you

Everything you say is true, but when you cant even boot to Ubuntu hard to
configure it or spend time with it. Three out of four computers it just
doesn't work. These are not old clunkers, but pretty much top of the line
stuff. Not exactly winning me over with those odds.

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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:33 PM
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Your question #41128 on Ubuntu changed:
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marcobra posted a new comment:
Like all Unix you must spend some of your time ( based on your
experience) to configure them but after they are very stable, they are
used of major organization financial bank and others like:

http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+contains&host=nasa.gov&lookup=wait..&position=limited

I use Linux on my internet/intranet servers from the year 1998, never
reinstalled or have any big trouble.

No virus, no spyware, automatic full system and all installed
applications upgrade (security or new release).

I choose Ubuntu on my desktops from release 6.04 i don't use other
operative system and i'm very happy with Linux.

The very good feature of Ubuntu is the free user support, like this
site, where you can get always an answer...!

For usual office (it came with already installed and ready to run
www.openoffice.org) work Ubuntu is very good.

Hope this helps.

Thank you

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errr,its a waste of time.i got told its better than windows,what a joke.