Yesterday, having learned that Ubuntu alternate install is able to encrypt the system partition, I set myself the goal of setting myself this wonderful system.
Everything was going fine, to the point of base install. At the 77th percent, I received the following message:
'Please insert the disc labeled:' Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ <version number 'in the drive' / cdrom / 'and press enter.'
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And two buttons, clicking on which leads to nothing. At this point, the installer has successfully formatted the boot drive.
Fortunately, I had at hand another working computer with the Internet - I’ve not put Linux on it for the first time, and I suspected that without it. With a light googling, I found out that this problem (somehow related to the presence of a SATA hard drive and IDE-CDROM) is dragging at least with the SEVENTH (and judging by some references - as many as FIVE) versions of this wonderful operating system!
I found as many as three solutions to this remarkable problem (obviously, the developers felt that once the problem was solved by a file, it means you can not fix it):
1. Insert the SATA shny screw from the SATA2 connector to SATA1. Did not help.
2. Some strange console manipulations, described here:
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1083783 . It helped, but the installation refused to go further base install.
3. Use USB-CDROM'om. By a strange coincidence, I did not have such a person at hand. Well, nothing, the next time I will put Ubuntu, I will definitely lend to someone and him - just in case.
In the end, after downloading the CD image again and writing it to a flash drive (fortunately, my motherboard supported booting from the flash drive), I still installed the fucking horned hare. True, the wonderful free and free software did not miss the chance to podnasrat and recorded mbr not on that hard drive, on which I put it, but on the one that was detected first. Question to the audience: how can I remove mbr from the second hard drive (without damaging the info, of course) and put it on the first one?
“Free software” is free only if you don’t value your time and nerves.