| - | | First of ll, I downloaded
xubuntu-8.10-rc-alternate-amd64.iso from the (X)Ubuntu web site. I had
to use the release candidate since the final version has not been
released yet. In my opinion, the alternate installation CD provides a
much more reprodutive installation than the normal one. So I took the
alternate installer. |
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| - | | After burning the ISO on a CD,
I was able to boot from. To get the system starting up correctly, I
needed to add the boot option 'acpi=off'. After that, the Xubuntu
alternate installer started fine. |
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| - | | Unfortunately, the installer
was not able to mount the cd drive during the installation. So I had to
do a small workaround:
| | 1. | | I copied
the xubuntu-8.10-rc-alternate-amd64.iso CD Image, which I downloaded
before to a USB-drive. |
| | 2. | | At the point
of installation, where the installer tries to mount the CD drive and
fails on doing that. I switched to a console and mounted the image
from the USB drive instead the real CD.
mkdir /stick
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /stick
modrpobe loop
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /stick/xubuntu-8.10-rc-alternate-amd64.iso /cdrom
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| | 3. | | Unluckily, this
causes the installer to fail when it tries to determine the release
codename. To resolve this problem go back in the installer menu to the
step 'load installer components from cd' and install the machinery for
detecting and loading ISOs. Unmount '/cdrom' again and continue the
installation. Now the ISO should get detected automatically and the
installation goes thru.
Further information about this you might find
here. |
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| - | | After the installation I had
to add the parameter 'acpi=off' to the kernel configuration of grub in
'/target/boot/grub/menu.lst', since I did not get ACPI working at this
time.
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| - | | Now I could boot my system the first
time!
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