I have Ubuntu on a USB drive, but i keep getting the disk error.

Hello

Refer this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

(select use entire disk)

regards

After Your enter the user name and details in the installation process do this

It prompts" How do you want to partition the disk "
select erase entire disk (second option)
then press Forward

Thank you for your answer but I do ot get past step 3. The last message I get is that it is scanning for HD, but it doesn't find any. That is why I say it is a blank unformatted HD.

Should I download a low level format program from Maxtor???

Thank you for your answer but I do ot get past step 3. The last message I get is that it is scanning for HD, but it doesn't find any. That is why I say it is a blank unformatted HD.

Should I download a low level format program from Maxtor???

 Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 1:04 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
Hello

Refer this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

(select use entire disk)

regards

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Yes if you are running on windows download partition magic or similar program to format your partition....

Regards

I don't think you understand. i have a seperate HD that has never been used. It is totally blank. MY PC does not see it. I know how to fromat a partition on an exhisting HD that already has Windows. This HD has "nothing". Unfortunately I don't have an A Drive so I cannot boot from a floopy. I didn't want to risk install on my primary HD.

 Nolan Phillips

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Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 8:49 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

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Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
Yes if you are running on windows download partition magic or similar
program to format your partition....

Regards

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Hi Nolan,

I would check your bios settings, to make sure the drive is properly installed and being detected by your bios. If your bios has a pretty splash screen, see if you can either escape out of it (sometimes it's tab, sometimes it's escape) or completely disable it (some setting in the bios somewhere).

When you first turn the computer on, when the bios is displaying messages, you should see something like:

Detecting Primary master... WDC034014 (or some number... generally the letters correspond to the maker of the disk)
Detecting Primary Slave....Not found

Just make sure it's finding all of your disks. If they are not found, check to make sure the bios is looking for them (ie 'primary slave' is not set to "Disable" somewhere in your bios)

It doesn't matter that the drive is not partitioned or formatting: both Ubuntu (and windows) setup will discover, partition and format a brand new disk.

If my above suggestions don't help at all, post back with further information about your hard drive, like how big, is it sata or ide, how old of a computer are you installing it in, and possibly double check your cable and jumper settings (i can help with those too if you need it)

-allen

Allen,

Thank you.

The blank HD is ATA Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8. I know how to strap it.

My PC is about 8 years old HP Pavillion 7840 running Millenium. here was something wrong, I could never get Win 2000 to install, it keep aborting with a Kernal problem at the same point all the time, so  had to keep Millenium .  I will play around with the BIOS and let you know.

I would like to get rid of Windows

Thanks again.

 Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Allen Chemist <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 9:34 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Allen Chemist proposed the following answer:
Hi Nolan,

I would check your bios settings, to make sure the drive is properly
installed and being detected by your bios. If your bios has a pretty
splash screen, see if you can either escape out of it (sometimes it's
tab, sometimes it's escape) or completely disable it (some setting in
the bios somewhere).

When you first turn the computer on, when the bios is displaying
messages, you should see something like:

Detecting Primary master... WDC034014 (or some number... generally the letters
correspond to the maker of the disk)
Detecting Primary Slave....Not found

Just make sure it's finding all of your disks. If they are not found,
check to make sure the bios is looking for them (ie 'primary slave' is
not set to "Disable" somewhere in your bios)

It doesn't matter that the drive is not partitioned or formatting: both
Ubuntu (and windows) setup will discover, partition and format a brand
new disk.

If my above suggestions don't help at all, post back with further
information about your hard drive, like how big, is it sata or ide, how
old of a computer are you installing it in, and possibly double check
your cable and jumper settings (i can help with those too if you need
it)

-allen

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OK

take the new HDD

and run the live CD

and run the following command in a terminal

mkreiserfs /dev/sda

Regards

Allen,

The BIOS looks ok. It looks like it is seeing the HD but  still cannot install. I am sending this to you via the CD. I ran the HW detector, it ran and sent a report to launchpad but I haven't seen it yet. Should I try Partition Magic on the HD??

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Nolan <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Nolan <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 9:54 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Answered => Open

You are still having a problem:
Allen,

Thank you.

The blank HD is ATA Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8. I know how to strap it.

My PC is about 8 years old HP Pavillion 7840 running Millenium. here was
something wrong, I could never get Win 2000 to install, it keep aborting with a
Kernal problem at the same point all the time, so  had to keep Millenium .  I
will play around with the BIOS and let you know.

I would like to get rid of Windows

Thanks again.

 Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
wrote:

From: Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 9:34 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Allen Chemist proposed the following answer:
Hi Nolan,

I would check your bios settings, to make sure the drive is properly
installed and being detected by your bios. If your bios has a pretty
splash screen, see if you can either escape out of it (sometimes it's
tab, sometimes it's escape) or completely disable it (some setting in
the bios somewhere).

When you first turn the computer on, when the bios is displaying
messages, you should see something like:

Detecting Primary master... WDC034014 (or some number... generally the letters
correspond to the maker of the disk)
Detecting Primary Slave....Not found

Just make sure it's finding all of your disks. If they are not found,
check to make sure the bios is looking for them (ie 'primary slave' is
not set to "Disable" somewhere in your bios)

It doesn't matter that the drive is not partitioned or formatting: both
Ubuntu (and windows) setup will discover, partition and format a brand
new disk.

If my above suggestions don't help at all, post back with further
information about your hard drive, like how big, is it sata or ide, how
old of a computer are you installing it in, and possibly double check
your cable and jumper settings (i can help with those too if you need
it)

-allen

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I will try and let you know. Thank You

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:40 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
OK

take the new HDD

and run the live CD

and run the following command in a terminal

mkreiserfs /dev/sda

Regards

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Device failed.. I'm wondering if something is wrong in my BIOS or the HD..Here is the message:

A pair of credits:
BigStorage  (www.bigstorage.com)  contributes to our general fund  every month,
and has done so for quite a long time.

Yury Umanets  (aka Umka)  developed  libreiser4,  userspace  plugins,  and  all
userspace tools (reiser4progs) except of fsck.

Stat of the device '/dev/sda' failed.ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ mkreiserfs /dev/sda
mkreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)

A pair of credits:
Oleg Drokin was the debugger for  V3 during most of the time that  V4 was under
development,  and was quite  skilled and fast at it.  He wrote  the large write
optimization of V3.

SuSE (www.suse.com)  pays for continuing work on journaling for version 3, paid
for much of the previous version 3 work, and is paying for Chris and Jeff to do
V3 maintenance. Reiserfs integration in their distro is consistently solid, and
they were key to our becoming widely used.

Stat of the device '/dev/sda' failed.ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:40 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
OK

take the new HDD

and run the live CD

and run the following command in a terminal

mkreiserfs /dev/sda

Regards

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Allen,

I ran mkreiserfs /dev/sda and got:

Device failed.. I'm wondering if something is wrong in my BIOS or the HD..Here is the message:

A pair of credits:

BigStorage  (www.bigstorage.com)  contributes to our general fund  every month,

and has done so for quite a long time.

Yury Umanets  (aka Umka)  developed  libreiser4,  userspace  plugins,  and  all

userspace tools (reiser4progs) except of fsck.

Stat of the device '/dev/sda' failed.ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ mkreiserfs /dev/sda

mkreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)

A pair of credits:

Oleg Drokin was the debugger for  V3 during most of the time that  V4 was under

development,  and was quite  skilled and fast at it.  He wrote  the large write

optimization of V3.

SuSE (www.suse.com)  pays for continuing work on journaling for version 3, paid

for much of the previous version 3 work, and is paying for Chris and Jeff to do

V3 maintenance. Reiserfs integration in their distro is consistently solid, and

they were key to our becoming widely used.

Stat of the device '/dev/sda' failed.ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:40 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
OK

take the new HDD

and run the live CD

and run the following command in a terminal

mkreiserfs /dev/sda

Regards

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         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Allen Chemist <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 9:34 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Allen Chemist proposed the following answer:
Hi Nolan,

I would check your bios settings, to make sure the drive is properly
installed and being detected by your bios. If your bios has a pretty
splash screen, see if you can either escape out of it (sometimes it's
tab, sometimes it's escape) or completely disable it (some setting in
the bios somewhere).

When you first turn the computer on, when the bios is displaying
messages, you should see something like:

Detecting Primary master... WDC034014 (or some number... generally the letters
correspond to the maker of the disk)
Detecting Primary Slave....Not found

Just make sure it's finding all of your disks. If they are not found,
check to make sure the bios is looking for them (ie 'primary slave' is
not set to "Disable" somewhere in your bios)

It doesn't matter that the drive is not partitioned or formatting: both
Ubuntu (and windows) setup will discover, partition and format a brand
new disk.

If my above suggestions don't help at all, post back with further
information about your hard drive, like how big, is it sata or ide, how
old of a computer are you installing it in, and possibly double check
your cable and jumper settings (i can help with those too if you need
it)

-allen

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When in the live cd, what is the output of the following on a terminal:

sudo fdisk -l

this should list all disks that linux can see... which from what I'm reading, it can't see *any* disks (which is why mkreiserfs would fail, as per Bhavani's suggestion)

While you're at it, is there anything related to hard drives in the output of
dmesg | grep -iE 'sd|hd|drive'

Allen,

I'll investigate when I have a chance and get back to you. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Allen Chemist <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 1:52 PM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Needs information

Allen Chemist requested for more information:
When in the live cd, what is the output of the following on a terminal:

sudo fdisk -l

this should list all disks that linux can see... which from what I'm
reading, it can't see *any* disks (which is why mkreiserfs would fail,
as per Bhavani's suggestion)

While you're at it, is there anything related to hard drives in the output
of
dmesg | grep -iE 'sd|hd|drive'

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I believe my problem was the HD and / or the Bios of my PC. I was running Windows Me. I decided to install, on my Win Me HD. It worked.!!!!

I was a devoted Windows devotee put am disgusted like most people with MS.

Can you tell me what the main advantages of running Linux would be??

I am not a developer, what SW would you recommend for general use???

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Allen Chemist <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 1:52 PM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Needs information

Allen Chemist requested for more information:
When in the live cd, what is the output of the following on a terminal:

sudo fdisk -l

this should list all disks that linux can see... which from what I'm
reading, it can't see *any* disks (which is why mkreiserfs would fail,
as per Bhavani's suggestion)

While you're at it, is there anything related to hard drives in the output
of
dmesg | grep -iE 'sd|hd|drive'

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Please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_vs_windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_and_closed_source

There is a lot of software more 20.000 packages, i'm pretty sure you can find what you need.
Please tell what are you usually do with your pc...?

Hope this helps

What is good for burning and ripping????  What is good for editing phot's???

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Fri, 8/1/08, marcobra <email address hidden> wrote:
From: marcobra <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:35 PM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Needs information

marcobra requested for more information:
Please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_vs_windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_and_closed_source

There is a lot of software more 20.000 packages, i'm pretty sure you can
find what you need.
Please tell what are you usually do with your pc...?

Hope this helps

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aLLEN,

I got this when I tried to run software update. What do I need to do. I tried to run the command from "Terminal" but it did not work.

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Allen Chemist <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Allen Chemist <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 1:52 PM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Needs information

Allen Chemist requested for more information:
When in the live cd, what is the output of the following on a terminal:

sudo fdisk -l

this should list all disks that linux can see... which from what I'm
reading, it can't see *any* disks (which is why mkreiserfs would fail,
as per Bhavani's suggestion)

While you're at it, is there anything related to hard drives in the output
of
dmesg | grep -iE 'sd|hd|drive'

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Allen,

I ran the command and got a message saying I need superuser privilege.

Please advise:

nolan@Zodan:~$ dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
nolan@Zodan:~$

         Nolan Phillips

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Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 1:52 PM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Needs information

Allen Chemist requested for more information:
When in the live cd, what is the output of the following on a terminal:

sudo fdisk -l

this should list all disks that linux can see... which from what I'm
reading, it can't see *any* disks (which is why mkreiserfs would fail,
as per Bhavani's suggestion)

While you're at it, is there anything related to hard drives in the output
of
dmesg | grep -iE 'sd|hd|drive'

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This is very frustrating, please advise.

         Nolan Phillips

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:40 AM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Answered

Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
OK

take the new HDD

and run the live CD

and run the following command in a terminal

mkreiserfs /dev/sda

Regards

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I tried running this line but it did not help.

This is very frustrating, please advise.
         Nolan Phillips

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Subject: Re: [Question #40804]: How 2 install from CD to blank HD???
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:35 PM

Your question #40804 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/40804

    Status: Open => Needs information

marcobra requested for more information:
Please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_vs_windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_and_closed_source

There is a lot of software more 20.000 packages, i'm pretty sure you can
find what you need.
Please tell what are you usually do with your pc...?

Hope this helps

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To run it as superuser/root run

'sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a'

As an aside, it is advisable to post a new question if you've got further issues. You should have ideally marked this as solved when the initial Ubuntu installation had worked out.

Regards, Johannes

I have concluded that the Installation problem is a bad HD. I successfully installed Ubuntu on my presnt HD, dual booting with Windows. Installing updates is another head ache. I do not have some much time to learn unix.