cheers, Alan<br><br>the way i installed Ubuntu is from online mirror site...coz, my machine has not got a cdrom drive.<br><br>hmmmmmm, I am thinking to download the whole Ubuntu 5.10 installation files into another computer within the same LAN, and set up a HTTP server or FTP server on it for my old laptop.
<br><br>i will try it latter.<br><br>yan<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/01/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Pope</b> <<a href="mailto:alan.pope@gmail.com">alan.pope@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 11/01/06, alex yan <<a href="mailto:yongnet@gmail.com">yongnet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>><br>> after 'base installation', using partitioner to seperate HD, etc, I reboot<br>> my laptop. And then a 'Ubuntu' GUI starting up screen comes out with lots of<br>> lines for the loading modules and filesystems etc. Everything are shown 'OK'
<br>> status, until the screen jump to a text windows said "preparing<br>> installation" at 5%, the installation process stop at here with some errors<br>> messages(I am sure they are, though what I saw are little blocks.)
<br>><br><br>I had this. Turns out the Breezy CDs I was sent by Canonical are duff.<br><br>You can see what it's doing by switching to the other consoles with<br>ALT+F2, F3, F4.<br><br>Mine was barfing when trying to install a couple of packages which
<br>were corrupt.<br><br>The way I worked around it was (during the installer) to edit the<br>/etc/apt/sources.list to remove the reference to the cdrom, and run<br>apt-setup to tell it to get packages from online mirrors.
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