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Bad install of 11.04

Asked by Jerry Tucker

I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04. and did not get a good installation.

It seems that both systems are still on the computer. None of the programs with open up, but just freeze up when an attempt is made.

I got a disk for 11.04 and tried all three methods of installation with no luck. As a final attempt, I had the disk to wipe out all data and re install 11.04, but no luck there either.

I suppose at this point, I need to re format the hard drive and then install 11.04, but I do not know how. Any help will be very much appreciated. Jerry T

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#1

Jerry, Place the CD in an restart your computer, it will then wipe from it when booted again (the CD will boot from it). If the re-formating try two does not work, you can come back for more assistance. What is your system by the way?

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Jerry Tucker (jtucker183) said : 		#2

I restarted with the CD in the drive. The system booted up, but nothing worked. I then restarted, held down F12 and had the system boot to the CD drive.

I then set it to install 11.04, which is underway now.

This computer is a Dell Optiplex, 3.o GHz, Pentium 4, 1 MB Cache 800 front side bus.
NTFS file syatem, 1GB RAM 400MHz DDR 2x512.

Additional info. I have been running Ubuntu on this machine starting with 8.04. I recently upgraded to 11.04.
Then the update manager wanted me to upgrade to 10.10 and I complied, without realizing that I had 11.04 on the machine.
That's when the trouble started. I upgraded again to 11.04, and nothing has worked since except for the browser, and it will eventually freeze up.
No programs will open up, so I can not make any adjustments. Thanks for your help.

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Jerry Tucker (jtucker183) said : 		#3

11.04 installed again but nothing works. No programs will open such as Computer Janitor, or Update Manager. They attempt to open, then freeze.

I am going to re load Windows XP back on the machine, and maybe try Ubuntu 11.04 later.

Thank you for your help with this, Jerry T.

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Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart) said : 		#4

Jerry,

It sounds like you have a bad install cd. Please try downloading it from a mirror site, burn another dvd and use that.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

Please MD5 downloaded ISO image: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
After please check made CD: http://zootlinux.blogspot.com/2010/05/check-disc-for-defects-in-ubuntu-1004.html
If after it continues to fail, please provide partition table (sudo fdisl -l).

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