[Tfug] Unable to install Ubuntu Server on Intel D945GCLF

[Steve B]

It's a known hardware issue between Ubuntu 10.04 and these boards. Someone
on the Ubuntu forums suggested installing 8.04 and then upgrading to 10.04.
That seemed to do the trick.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Steve B <steveb7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Recently I decided to convert my old NAS gox from Gentoo to Unbuntu
> Server.
> > For reasons that I do not understand I cannot install 10.04 or 11.04 on
> it.
> > I've downloaded both the i386 and the AMD64 ISO images to the same
> machine,
> > burned the image on the same DVDRW drive onto the same CDRW disc but when
> I
> > try to install on the D945GCLF board, it consistently fails at the same
> step
> > - Unable to install base system.
>
> Bad destination drive?  Any other failure messages when you switch to
> the other virtual terminals?
>
> - Zack
>
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