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ubiquity package

Overwriting old operating system/partitions

Asked by Kyle Gould

When attempting to install ubuntu in order to completely erase and replace windows xp on a dell inspiron 6000, it is unable to get past the step in the installation process in which it creates a partition. Any suggestions?

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Kyle Gould (kgouldmusic) said : 		#1

It gives an error prior to and ends the install at

Creating ext4 file system for / in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda)...

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Kyle Gould (kgouldmusic) said : 		#2

First error is

Input/output error during write on /dev/sda

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Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart) said : 		#3

Download the iso again and MD5sum check it, burn it to another dvd and then reinstall it.

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