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Install of 9.1 fails midway

Asked by Colby

Newbie installing Ubuntu 9.1 onto an HP1010NR netbook from USB stick. Boot goes fine to install options screen. The test disk and test memory functions work fine. The load Ubuntu or install Ubuntu scripts fail midway. To see what is happening I hit tab and remove the "quiet spash --". The fail message is: "Can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow" I tried the "noapic nolapic", "pci=noacpi" "lapic pci=routeirq" "irqpoll" "apic=off" suggested on the web with same result. Netbook has solid 8Gb drive with 2Gb open. WinXP has the rest. I have not set a separate partition. I want to remove WinXP and use whole SSD under Ubuntu.

Is there a fix to get the script to complete the install?

How can I walk thro the script to see each line and response to see what happens before this point?

I've been reading up on Ubuntu and really want to get going. All suggestions appreciated.

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Best Druid (druid99999) said : 		#1

Had the same failure for USB sticks created from the desktop and NMR cd images.
I fixed it by changing the options on the ubuntu USB startup disk creator. I was initially reserving space for documents when I created the USB, when I changed the option to "Discarded on shutdown, unless you save them elsewhere" the USB stick booted fine.

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Colby (colbyhouse738) said : 		#2

SOLVED! Thanks for the tip.

I began the proposed fix of checking the "discard" box on the USB create screen. But this time, I got a new message after clicking the "make start up disk":
 "Installation failed
 An uncaught execption was raised:
 [Error 5} Access denied u'G:\\ldlinus.sys'

I turned off all Norton protections and User Account Controls but still got the same message. Strange that it did not happen when I ran USB-creator the first time. I was using the same USB stick. So I assume that the sys boot file put on the first time was triggering a security violation. So I reformated the USB stick and ran USB-Creator as administrator. The creation program ran and the USB booted the netbook successfully and installed Ubuntu 9.1.