How was your bios set up, did you have disc type set to dos? If so that may have been the problem, ubuntu so far as I know is the only Linux flavor that needs disc type set to other and not dos.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi All > > A bad news, good news story. > > I have spent the past 6 hours with a very experienced sighted hand trying to > install Ubuntu onto my PC. Firstly, the CD, which was burned today, ran > well as a Live CD. However, we hit a major problem with the install onto > the PC. > > The PC set up was a Windows XP on the master IDE 20Gb drive and a slave IDE > was set up with 4 20GB partitions. 3 in use and one left unformatted for > Ubuntu to be loaded into. > > Got through the initial set up stages OK to the point where it starts to > load in the CD and it got as far as 56% and hung. It was left for about 30 > minutes and had progressed no further. > > Machine was hard re-booted. > > Ubuntu re-loaded and it became apparent that instead of limiting itself to > the 20Gb partition reserved for it, it had re-formatted the entire hard > drive - this secondary hard drive was my data drive and irreplaceable data > had fortunately been backed up. > > My friend was totally baffled as to why this had happened - he has carried > out a number of Ubuntu installs over the past month with no problems - the > major difference being mine was the only one that he was placing Ubuntu on a > secondary drive in an available partition as opposed to the master drive on > a virgin system. > > We tried a second time and this time we got to 66% before hanging. > > In desperation he went home and got a copy of Zubuntu (I think) and we tried > that. Yipee, sailed through with no problems. > > This meant that once installed we had to apt-get gnome and orca in its > entirety. > > Although everything is now on we are still having problems with getting > things to work together and that will be thursday evenings project. > > So, can I ask a couple of things? > > Is Ubuntu sensitive to where it is installed? Does it prefer a virgin > system to one that is already occupied? > > Secondly, and I think this relates to Gnupernicus as opposed to Orca > although by this stage we were getting quite confused, there are lots of > spin boxes relating to the different talk rates for different controls - > could this be hidden behind an Advanced tab and have maybe one or two that > effects all the options? > > As for Orca, again I think, we noted that if the check box relating to key > echo was unticked Orca stopped responding. > > Lastly, relating to Gnome Mag, can someone point me to the URL for > directions on it's use please? In particular looking for activating full > screen magnification, colour inversion to read white on black, together with > associated keyboard shortcuts. > > It looks fun from what little I can see but at the moment frustration is > high as I can't do anything much with anything! > > Many thanks > > Ian > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
