[Wolves] Ubuntu 7.10 can't get any to versions to work!

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 09:44:36 GMT 2007


On 07/11/2007, ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk <ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Not sure what has happened here.
>
> I've downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 from ubuntu.com and on trying to install it
> seems to think my hard drive is SCSI instead of IDE and messes up the
> partitions so the system dosen't boot.
>
> So I tryed Kubuntu 7.10 instead, again downloading direct from Ubuntu,
> this time, on booting the CD I create with an image it comes up with a
> scrolling message of something like "bash: cannot access dev/null"
> dev/null I assume to be the unix/linux "black hole" that is used to erase
> files.
>
> So I'm stuck using windows for now, I may go back to my previous tried and
> tested dapper 6.06 LTS, as I'm sure there are bound to be some teething
> problems as 7.10 is such a new release.
>

Try downloading the .iso from another mirror.  I've had problems in
the past where one download has been dodgy.  I know, that's what MD5
is for :-)  I always just try another mirror and give that go instead.
 It can't hurt to try anyway.
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire



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