Ah, I recall that install attempt. It failed repeatedly and I did try other hard drives to install to. As I had wiped my system I reluctantly reverted back to Windows XP in the end as I had only burnt the one Ubuntu disc and couldn't install from that and had no other operating systems lying around that I could get back up and running with.
In the end I decided that the error that I saw was that the CD-ROM drive from which the install was being run from was failing. This happened about three times before I gave up. I used two SATA Western Digital 120GB drives as the install destination and was installing from a Plextor IDE CD-ROM drive. I had burnt the media slowly onto a decent disc and verified that before attempting the install (knowing I was going to wipe my system). However the install repeatedly failed at the same point (copying files) and it was the CD-ROM LED indicator that would hang and the drive would appear to stutter as it attempted to read the drive. I can't recall submitting this bug (it was a while ago, and I would've followed up if I had recalled it), was it done automagically? I believed at the time that this was a hardware failure with the Plextor drive as when I proceeded to install Windows XP I removed the CD-ROM and set the DVD drive to be the bootable optical drive and that install went smoothly. When I got back into Windows XP I again checksum'd the CD I had burnt and it was fine. I also did a very basic sanity check to prove it was fine by simply copying all files onto a local drive to see that I could actually read all files. So I believe the root cause was a failing IDE CD-ROM drive through the ATAPI interface. If it is the SATA HDD, then that is worrying as I'm still using that as my primary hard drive today. On Nov 19, 2007 7:03 AM, Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. > This was reported about one year ago, with no answers. > Any news about this? > I am not an expert at all here, but your report seems to show lots of > error on ata3 which I believe to be one of your SATA disk. Which would make > me guess some hardware related problems with this computer. > > ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Installer crashed with IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/69955 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Installer crashed with IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/69955 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
