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Installation of Ubuntu 9.04 (was Trying Ubuntu 8.10)

It was quite a frustrating day yesterday as far as my attempt to install Ubuntu 8.10 goes. In my previous post, I mentioned that the installation was not smooth; it hangs mid way. Let me tell you in detail what actually happened yesterday.

First attempt to install Ubuntu 8.10 was on my 6 years old Twinhead Efio D212A with AMD Athlon and 376MB RAM. I tried to install twice, but on both occasions, the installation hangs at step 4 of 7 – at the partition stage. I thought it was going to take me 30 minutes to install, max… but, after almost 2 hours, I decided to take a break. But before I leave my notebook, I downloaded the latest version, 9.04.

I came back a couple of hours later, and burn the ISO image on a CD.

I tried again on the same notebook but this time, it hanged at step 3. Hard booted the notebook, removed the CD from the drive and I then decided to have a go at my other notebook… (it’s my company’s actually). It’s a DELL Vostro 1200 with 2GB of RAM.

On this notebook, the installation hanged at step 4 as well (I think). This couldn’t be right. Back to the drawing board. I spent a good 20 minutes Googling around and found that, maybe, I need to do a CHKDSK. So, CHKDSK it is.

Upon running CHKDSK (not with /F), I found that there were quite a number of errors. I need to repair them. CHKDSK was completed last night.

This morning, with full of energy, I started the installation again…. and to cut long story short, in about 25 minutes, everything is done. In fact, I’m writing this post on Ubuntu 9.04… yes….I now have a dual boot OS, 110GB for Windows XP (where all my work files are), and a mere 10GB for the Ubuntu.

Ubuntu or Linux for that matter, is quite new to me. A lot to learn. So far so good, everything seems to be working fine.

Today is going to be a busy day trying, learning, customising my Jaunty Jackalope.