6/20/2006

Ubuntu 6.06 Won't Install: CD-ROM Couldn't Be Mounted?

I've been a big Ubuntu fan. Everytime someone asks me what Linux distro to go with, I always recommend it. However Ubuntu will not install for me. At all. When I boot off the installation disk it boots just fine. I got up to the point where it's suppossed to detect and mount the cdrom drive, and it freaks out. It says "Your installation cd-rom couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the cd-rom was not in the drive." The first thing I thought was that perhaps the ISO I downloaded was corrupt, so I immediately downloaded another one and burned it a low rate. Same problem. Next I looked on the net and found that a lot of people have had the same issue with Ubuntu. Some of them found this boot option worked for them: Linux ide=nodma but this had no effect for me.

The next logical step was to try using a different CD-ROM drive, so I pulled out an old drive I had laying around and had the exact same problem. At this point it was obviously an issue with my motherboard/IDE setup, so I went into the BIOS to see if I could find any settings relating to that. Unfortunately I could not. This is pretty much where I said forget it, and downloaded Debian and installed it without an issue. I guess I could of downloaded Ubuntu onto my other computer and installed through it through the network, but at that point Debian sounded much better than an OS that couldn't even use my DVD-RW/CD-R drive to install itself. I guess I'm done recommended Ubuntu.

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  • I had the same problem with Ubuntu 7, and gave up sooner than you did. In fact I've been a bit frustrated in diving into Linux. Ubuntu won't find the DVD drive, Mandriva is great until 50% of the time it doesn't setup the internet connection correctly. Although I've learned a lot about configuring the system through all the problems, the fact that it does not seem stable rules it out as a replacement for Windows and a home server. Fedora installs like a champ, but then gives a GRUB error on booting so I've never seen this distro. Despite my best efforts, I have not found a Linux distro that will allow me to migrate away from Windows. I am all ready to give up my Adobe products and try the freeware stuff, but if the operating system can't be relied upon to recognize my hardware and install properly, I can't spend hours and hours to trouble-shoot. Oh well, maybe the new test of Fedora 7 will prove better.

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  • I'm actually having the same problem right now... what I don't get is why some systems can get the job done and other can't. I've got Slackware 11 running on my home machine and had no trouble at all installing it. Unfortunatelly the vast majority of the source I'd like to use is packaged for Debian. So I gave a shot to Ubuntu, but after 2 cd burned, I'm almost giving up.

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  • Having the same problem, i going to guess its a motherboard sata problem.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:16 PM, February 10, 2008  

  • Unlike seanpkennedy, I didn't give up soon enough. I went thru half a dozen cds, tried alternative and all the other "solutions". If the OS software relies on superhuman, seemingly endless trouble-shooting, and some sort of voodoo blind luck just to install and then work 50% of the time, its time to dump this crap and give...wait a minute... maybe MS invented Ubuntu just "remind" me how fantastic their products are. Vista does install, after all, and xP worked well enough.

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