[olug] Ubuntu Hardy Heron disk

Don Kauffman dekauff at cox.net
Tue Jul 1 02:10:27 UTC 2008


Thanks Dan,

well I burned another CD at a slower speed, checked it and tried it in
both cd/dvd drives with the same result. I'm now checking the root
partition for badblocks. 

I'm thinking I might need a new hard drive. 

Don Kauffman

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:06 -0500, Dan Linder wrote:
> Can't help you on the location requirement...did you run through the CD
> check just before installing?  I've had a flakey CD-ROM drive that would
> burn a CD but not read it reliably.  When it did check reliably, if I
> immediately ran the install it seemed to work.  My only guess is that
> something was loose in the drive, but I didn't mess with diagnosing that -
> just replaced it ASAP and didn't look back.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have an Installation CD for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on
> > good media that lives in the neighbor hood of 30th  and Dodge or
> > thereabouts?
> >
> > My attempted upgrade went flaky.
> >
> > Then I tried to reinstall but the install complains about the cd that I
> > created.  Of course it doesn't hit that until after it has copied over
> > all the files for installing.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Don K.
> >
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