Hi all,
I recently sent for the free shipping ubuntu cd, version 3.06 LTS..
I am fairly new to linux and thought this was an easy version to install.. Boy did I get that wrong : /
I have a pretty old pc, 400Mhz P3.
Anyhoo up until yesterday i had slack 10 installed and working sweetly. I have 2 hard drives, 1 is a 6GB windows 2000 installation the other is a 40GB which i have 2 partitions on. This is the one which had the lilo on..
I have windows ME on 1 partition and slack 10 on the other.
I ran the live ubuntu cd, everthing went well until i actually tried to install it.
While installing at about 17% i get an error saying:
The test of the filesystem with FAT32 in partition #2 of IDE1 master (hda) Found uncorrected errors, go back or continue?
When i go back it just starts the installation again and i get the same error!! If i continue it finishes without anymore errors..
When i reboot i get the Grub error 18 message...? Now i searched the error 18 on google but the answers i got were about HD parameters and bios settings...? Whoosh as it went over my head : /
I cant boot the system at all unless i use the slackware boot floppy i had from before.. Then i have got no XWindow at all.. *sighs*
I finally noticed the exclamation mark beside the FAT32 partition while trying the manual disk setup utilty in ubuntu, after the umpteenth time of re-installing.. ubuntu cannot read this filesystem??
When i am logged in using the live cd i have X and it reads the FAT32file system fine.. Anyone any idea's???? Sorry for this being so long winded, but i am trying to supply as much info as possible
thx in advance for any help
deft
