Help - installing Gutsy


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Ok so, I upgraded my system - the same DVDrom/CDRW as it did 4 months ago, but now the Ubuntu installer throws up an error saying it cannot detect/mount the cdrom. I'm trying to setup a dual boot, WinXP on one of my SATA drives, and Ubuntu on my IDE drive.

System configuration as follows.

AMD +6400, 2GB DDR2 800, Nvidia 8800GTS, Creative XFI

Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108

250GB WD IDE drive

2-70GB WD Raptors

1-500GB WD Sata

Asus M2n32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. The motherboard only has one IDE channel. So my HDD is Master on IDE and Pioneer DVD-RW is slave, tried it the opposite way too - same result.

If I try to install of LiveCD it boots through the orange bar load screen and then dumps me into a prompt, I forget the name of it but im left at a 'initramfs' prompt.

If I try from the Alternate CD right after it detects my keyboard it throws up the error that it cannot detect/mount my CDRom.

Any ideas of what I could try?

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Won't install from the Live (or alternate) CD? Does the LiveCD boot? And can you see and use the DVD from within the Live environment?

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Won't install from the Live (or alternate) CD? Does the LiveCD boot? And can you see and use the DVD from within the Live environment?

LiveCD will not boot, which is why I tried Alternate. When I go from the LiveCD I make it all the way up to the Ubuntu load screen, with the orange sweeping progress bar, it sweeps back and forth abit looking like its loading and then goes to a black screen and kicks me to a BusyBox prompt (initramfs) and just sits there waiting for me to enter a command.

When I looked this up on their forums, I saw suggestions to try Alternate CD. However when I try Alternate CD it gets to detecting Keyboard, finds it...and the next screen dumps me to a 'cannot detect/mount cdrom' which I find odd since it's running the installer off the disc.

The only suggestion I saw beyond that was to 'try another distro' and I lol'd. I'm wondering if the kernel is confused because of having only a single IDE channel on this board or something? It successfully identified and mounted the same cdrom drive 4 months ago on my old motherboard.

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Nah, a mix of IDE and SATA is no problem.

Seriously, though, I have had great success with Knoppix as a LiveCD. It might be worth just trying to boot it as a diagnostic test.

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Nah, a mix of IDE and SATA is no problem.

Seriously, though, I have had great success with Knoppix as a LiveCD. It might be worth just trying to boot it as a diagnostic test.

Well, two things I'm going to try today. Burn the disc using a different PC/burner/software and try again. And also try the 64bit version. Neither of which will probably matter - but I like to know why the hell something doesn't work rather than just move onto something else. :)

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