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Ubuntu O/S
Name: Wesley Ada (by wesley_a) Date: February 3, 2006 at 08:58:38 Pacific OS: N/A CPU/Ram: N/A
Comment:
Ubuntu is a free linux operating system, however, It prompts to change your drive values(FDISK), and creates a MS-DOS Drive that doesn't change back to normal that easily. My FDISK problems were fixed, but it was very difficult to fix it!
Name: 3Dave Date: February 3, 2006 at 09:14:26 Pacific
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Ubuntu will only create MS-DOS paritions if you tell it to. When installing it will create its own linux root and swap partitions which it will format with its own file system (ext3, resiser etc), it has no need for DOS/FAT/NTFS ones. To fix it you should be able to simly delete the linux created partitions and then create DOS ones which you can format to FAT etc. Rebooting inbetween deleting and creating partitions may help sometimes....
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Response Number 2
Name: Jake2 Date: February 3, 2006 at 17:13:01 Pacific
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fdisk in DOS and Windows 9x is buggy and unable to deal with some partition layouts that are possible to create in Linux. I doubt disk manager in the NT-based versions of Windows suffers the same problem. If Ubuntu created a partition table that DOS/Windows was unable to "change back to normal" (which I assume involves deleting the Linux partitions), it's a DOS/Windows problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: chwallac Date: February 8, 2006 at 16:12:26 Pacific
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IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE!!! I have an old computer that was running win95/98 and deleted the partition using fdisk and now get a non-system disk error on start up. How can I install ubuntu under these conditions (need a boot disk of sorts???) Thanks everyone!!
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: February 9, 2006 at 01:03:50 Pacific
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chwallac: If your computer does not support booting from CDROM in the BIOS (most older computers don't) then use a program like rawwrite and write the file on the Ubuntu installation CD install/smb.bin (Smart Boot Manager) to a floppy disk, boot from that and then select to boot from CD in the menu.
PS You may have been answered quicker if you'd started your own thread....
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Response Number 5
Name: chwallac Date: February 15, 2006 at 18:29:34 Pacific
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Thanks....my computer does support the cd-rom booting option should I just select the option to boot from cd rom with the original ubuntu install disk and disable the other boot options to get ubuntu installed??
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Response Number 6
Name: 3Dave Date: February 16, 2006 at 01:26:32 Pacific
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Don't disable the other boot options....just make sure that cdrom is first and then just boot from the CD. After installation remove the CD and boot from the hard drive.
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