can't install ubuntu 9.04

This is not a Launchpad bug

Hi,
Please can you post your hardware details?
Kind regards
Hatem

Do you have a dl cd? check it for defects.
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I don´t know if this is the place for this question. This seems to be a Windows related problem and has nothing to do with Ubuntu it self.

Try Google. Great source for sollution to your problem. I did google for you, and found all you need. But you better do it your self.

And if this place should help you....Then i´ll post the results of my search.

Installing firmware sounds like a permanent change to your machine or is it "firmware" within your virtual machine (which seems unlikely)?

Note that running Ubuntu inside a virtual machine running on top of Windows negates a lot of the advantages of running ubuntu as it will be depending on many Windows systems running perfectly in order to be able to function at all. A bit like building a house on shifting sands.

A good way to try Ubuntu without making any permanent change to your machine is to simply put the cd in yur cd/dvd-drive and reboot the machine. It should get you to a menu with an option "Try Ubuntu without changes to this machine", if not this guide should help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD
Choosing the "Try Ubuntu ... " option should get you to a working desktop which we call a "LiveCd session" if it works. The LiveCd session should allow you to surf although saving anything in that session is a little more difficult than it appears as you have to make an effort to save things to your hard-drive rather than just onto the Desktop or the "Documents" folders - using the "Places" menu can help with that tho.

If you like the LiveCd session then installing properly as part of a dual-boot gives Ubuntu it's own proper space
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
and this would allow it to use your resources better rather than trying to use whatever is left over after Windows has taken what it needs.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Your report is lacking in details. Have you read <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html>? You don't mention your goals, the hardware, VM, or host OS. Your description of the error is so vague that it is nearly useless for tracking down the problem. If you are installing Ubuntu in a VM because the host OS has problems the problems will likely be compounded. Don't expect linux in a VM to do everything that can be done with a native install. For all we know you tried to install a 64-bit Ubuntu in a 32-bit VM. I have 9.04 (32bit) running in VMware hosted on XPSP3 and 9.03 (64-bit) under VirtualBox host in MacOSX, so I know it can work.

Hey, easy tiger lol. This isn't a bug-report and too much detail can be as bad as too little. In this case it would help if Bookie could tell us things like Cpu speed, ram-size, 'hard-drive space' and not much more. Hopefully with just those 3 things we could start suggesting possible issue to explore.

Good luck and regards to all from
Tom :)

Sorry for the deley but i didin't had internet access these days.
My pc details are

AMD Athlonx2dual
core processor4200+
 2.21GHz, 1.00 GB RAM
2x nvidia gforce 7600 SLI

That would be more than enough for getting a really respectably fast ubuntu on it's own and it could probably happily run vmware inside that but 1Gb ram might not be enough for Windows to run heavy apps & vmware is pretty heavy? I thought that running vmware would need 4Gb ram to give be able to give the underlaying OS and the vm'd OS plenty of ram each?

Sorry that's about all i could see that might be a problem there. Maybe George was right about mis-match between 32bit and 64bit versions?

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)