I have been wrestling with this for over a day now and I cannot find the answers.solutions I'm looking for via these forums or Google (might be I am not familiar enough with Linux terminology to know what to search for better)
Initially I was having the same problems as covered by this post
But then after following the steps there I now get the following error during installation:
"The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue."
I have tried re-formatting the partitions to ext3 for all three and then 2 ext3 and 1 linux-swap (Windows Vista on main 250g HD, then the 3x 8g partitions on my 320g storage drive) I am simply at a loss as to what and try next to continue with the installation.
Now, please understand this is my very first attempt at any type of Linux based OS and I have no programming/coding experience, so please if you think you can help please be as detailed as possible and provide any links I might need.
Not sure if its related at all but when I ran the live cd within windows and installed Linux into a folder within my storage drive (15g) it seemed to complete without issue, but then when I reboot the system as requested by the installer the system goes to some dos looking program called Busybox, being that I have no idea what to do from there I tried rebooting again and the second time through it takes me to a prompt and says press "enter or b to boot" but the highlighted item is all crazy symbols and gibberish. When I hit enter or b it does nothing so I hit "p" to enter the privileged area I input what I entered in as the login PW when installing and the system just locks/hangs there and does nothing. When i tried to uninstall it through Windows via the uninstaller in the folder and through the control panel nothing happens.
Now this wouldnt be so bad but now my system keeps giving me the option to boot into Kubuntu (obviously a flawed installation) and I'm unaware on how to revert the system boot file to remove the Linux option (I knew how in XP but its not the same in Vista), any info that could be suggested to fix this issue as well would be appreciated. The biggest reason I bring this up is in case its related to my first issue.
Thank you for reading this post and to any help that can be offered.
Initially I was having the same problems as covered by this post
But then after following the steps there I now get the following error during installation:
"The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue."
I have tried re-formatting the partitions to ext3 for all three and then 2 ext3 and 1 linux-swap (Windows Vista on main 250g HD, then the 3x 8g partitions on my 320g storage drive) I am simply at a loss as to what and try next to continue with the installation.
Now, please understand this is my very first attempt at any type of Linux based OS and I have no programming/coding experience, so please if you think you can help please be as detailed as possible and provide any links I might need.
Not sure if its related at all but when I ran the live cd within windows and installed Linux into a folder within my storage drive (15g) it seemed to complete without issue, but then when I reboot the system as requested by the installer the system goes to some dos looking program called Busybox, being that I have no idea what to do from there I tried rebooting again and the second time through it takes me to a prompt and says press "enter or b to boot" but the highlighted item is all crazy symbols and gibberish. When I hit enter or b it does nothing so I hit "p" to enter the privileged area I input what I entered in as the login PW when installing and the system just locks/hangs there and does nothing. When i tried to uninstall it through Windows via the uninstaller in the folder and through the control panel nothing happens.
Now this wouldnt be so bad but now my system keeps giving me the option to boot into Kubuntu (obviously a flawed installation) and I'm unaware on how to revert the system boot file to remove the Linux option (I knew how in XP but its not the same in Vista), any info that could be suggested to fix this issue as well would be appreciated. The biggest reason I bring this up is in case its related to my first issue.
Thank you for reading this post and to any help that can be offered.
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