Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

[fismeleep]

After the bit of the installation where you select what keyboard layout to use, it starts to check the harddisk then stays on the same screen as before except the Forward and Back buttons are disabled only quit works.

I am currently running XP with 3 NTFS partitions and am not sure what the problem is.

Help would be really appreciated

[lmilano]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Could it be a defective CD ? I think there is an option to check the CD in the live CD / installer. Otherwise, look at the boot options, there are alternative boot options, options to disable ACPI I think, etc., in case this is a (rare) hardware issue.

HTH!

[fismeleep]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Doesnt work with ACPI off either. I've also tried adding irqpoll to the command line, I just get alot of errors and it doesn't even make it to the install.

On another forum i was asked for the result of:

sudo fdisk -l

So I will add it here aswell incase anyone can help.

Disk /dev/sda:160.0 GB 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Unites = cylinders of16065 * 5128225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x16061605
   Device Boot    Start      End       Blocks     Id    System
/dev/sda1 *          1    2550   20482843+     7     HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2         2551   19457  135805477+     f      w95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5         2551   10199    61440561      7     HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6        10200   19457   74364853+      7     HPFS/NTFS

[aged hippy]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Did you burn the CD yourself? Try burning another at 4X, TAO or DAO, get the burning program to verify it if possible, and see what happens when you stuff it in the drive and select <Check CD for defects>.

[dibl]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

I am currently running XP with 3 NTFS partitions and am not sure what the problem is.

You're not trying to install Kubuntu on an NTFS partition, are you? You need to install on ext3 or ext4 filesystem.

[fismeleep]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Isn't it supposed to reformat the partitions? It never reaches the formatter just scans the partitions and once it has it just stays on the keyboard layout screen with the forward and back buttons disabled. Also as I'm running XP If I do want to reformat the partitions how do I format the ones which the operating system is on?

[lmilano]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Yes, it will ask you where you want to install, etc, you could choose one of those and get it reformatted by the installer. Your problem is that you don;t even get to that point.

Have you tried the simplest thing, i.e. burning another CD? (maybe it is just defective media)

[fismeleep]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

I've burned 2 CD's so far, neither let me install. Once it showed an error at 50% mentioning something about the fact that the unit allocation size for each partition was 4096 and that it was experimental code for that size, could that be the problem?

[aged hippy]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Did you check the CD?

When it first boots, select the <Check CD for defects> and see what the answer is before you do anything else. It may well be a bad burn.

[lmilano]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Did you check the CD?

When it first boots, select the <Check CD for defects> and see what the answer is before you do anything else. It may well be a bad burn.

Good idea, I also suggested this above (not sure it was ever tried)

[vinnywright]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

Did you check the CD?

When it first boots, select the <Check CD for defects> and see what the answer is before you do anything else. It may well be a bad burn.

Good idea, I also suggested this above (not sure it was ever tried)

+ you should allways burn a OS's ISO at the slowest speed posable like 4x as even a small bit of data loss could be verey bad.............ware as 40x on a music cd mite be ok it's not for a disk image.

VINNY

[muzicman0]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

yeah, the fact that you have 2 different CD's that let error out at 2 different places makes me think that it's a bad CD burn as well...if you have more problems, you might try burning it on someone else's burner...

mm0

[aged hippy]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

I assume that you're burning the CD from Windows the best .iso burning program there in my opinion is Infrarecorder: http://infrarecorder.org/ - and what's more.... it's free. 8)

If you use Infrarecorder, tell it to burn the CD at 4X, select Track-At-Once, and tick all the boxes on the General tab (except Simulate ), i leave the Advanced tab well alone... i don't know what most of the options mean.

When you stuff the CD in the drive, select Check CD for defects before trying to install, and if the burn is successful, instead of Install Kubuntu, select Try Kubuntu etc.

[lmilano]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

I've burned 2 CD's so far, neither let me install. Once it showed an error at 50% mentioning something about the fact that the unit allocation size for each partition was 4096 and that it was experimental code for that size, could that be the problem?

Can you give more info? Otherwise no one will be able to help (and look at how many people are volunteering their time to help you).

50% of what? The CD loaded 50% and died? Or the CD loaded fine but the installation died at 50% of completion? I think we were all assuming the former, but now I am not sure. I think you might have a fs problem. Have you tried running as a liveCD as suggested by our beloved agedhippy? Can you type the exact error, exactly what happens? (or get a screenshot, etc)

[dibl]

Re: Installation stops at keyboard layout choice.

I've burned 2 CD's so far, neither let me install. Once it showed an error at 50% mentioning something about the fact that the unit allocation size for each partition was 4096 and that it was experimental code for that size, could that be the problem?

@fismeleep, why don't we break your problem down and solve this first bit?

Make a Parted Magic Live CD, by downloading the zipped ISO from here:

http://partedmagic.com/

Verify the md5 sum (available at the bottom of that page), and then unzip it and carefully burn a CD at 4X speed, DAO mode if you have it. Boot that, and do your hard drive partitioning, using ext3 for the filesystem format. That should eliminate issues related to the partitioning and the block size. I assume you want to shrink the NTFS partitions, or eliminate one of them, and add an ext3 partition and a swap partition. Note that you only can have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive, so if you need to keep more than 2 for Windows, then you'll need to make an extended type partition, and put logical partitions within it. Look at the graphics here to get the idea:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry...e/resizing.htm

Note the requirement to reboot Windows and let it recover its karma, regarding the changed NTFS partition size(s).

Then, once you have partitions made for the Linux installation, use your Kubuntu Live CD or Alternate Install CD (burned at 4X as per instruction above) and choose "manual partitioning" and simply point the mount point for "/" to the partition where you want it. The swap partition will be found automatically.

Then proceed with the installation and it should go down fine.