Problem installing ubuntu server

jo-jo1409

Hi i am trying to install linux server 10.04 on a tower i have but having problems.

I have set up a usb stick and boot to it and get the language selection screen then the option to install ubuntu server it goes through the keyboard setup and progresses through the network setup it then asks for a mirror to access archives or something and says its downloading but just sticks at 0% i can not get past this point i have even tried different countries but still the same

alo tried burning the iso to disc and it does the same thing

I have also tried a more uptodate version and the upto date version once selecting install ubuntu the screen seems to go off as if the resolution is not supported and sticks there

can anyone at all help me please

thanks in advance

marc

Might sound stupid but... are you sure you have internet connection?

ctrl+alt+fx to get to a terminal and try there

Regards

jo-jo1409

well i have vista running on it now and the internet works fine but going through the installation process i'm not sure how to check

woboyle

This may be due to a bad download of the .iso image file. You need to verify the md5sum, sha1sum, or sha256sum checksum for the image with what is posted on the download site for that image. I have often had downloads of iso images that seemed to work, but generated the wrong checksum, so I had to download them again.

jo-jo1409

I have downloaded now 7 copies of linux server and come up with the same results can i just ask what is the archive download trying to download ?

marc

Good lord, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY!!!

Are you on ethernet? on wifi? do you use dhcp? static ip? do you have any kind of firewall no your router? or maybe you are connecting directly to internet...

Regards

jo-jo1409

i am on a wired connection straight to my virgin media super hub dhcp connection the internet works fine on the tower in vista so i have no reason to think its not working during the installation

marc

...so i have no reason to think its not working during the installation...

Yes you do have reason to think it's not working: you cannot download the files neede!

First thing you should do is test the internet connection, the dns config in /etc/resolv.conf and these kind of things.

Regards,

PS: no offense but... why do you ask for help if you are not going to listen to suggestions?

jo-jo1409

I am quiet willing ro try any suggestions just another question though how can i test the connection when i can not finish the installation ?

mfillpot

You can test the connection by booting a live CD of the same distro and checking the network connection state or seeing if a webbrowser can connect to the internet.

Now one question seems to have been avoided, have you used a tools such as md5summer to check the md5sum of the ISO after it was downloaded and used the verify function in your cd burning software to confirm that the file was not corrupted when downloaded or written?

jo-jo1409

check sum is

881D188CB1CA5FB18E3D9132275DCEDA *ubuntu-11.10-server-i386.iso

mfillpot

Did the checksum match the official checksum from the server you used?

jo-jo1409

Yay had some success with this i have now got linux ubuntu server succesfully intalled on the tower although as earlirt suggested it seems i have no internet connectivity i have tried with dhcp and also with setting to static ip but nothing i do seems to get it online i have tried to ping google but it wont ping

i use these instructions to set to static

1. give your server a static ip. put this line in and press enter

nano /etc/network/interfaces

change the dhcp to static then under it put like this
address 192.168.1.78
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.78
gateway 192.168.1.254

ofcourse these are my ips so please change to your own ips

once done hold ctrl+x press y then enter
now to restart network put this line in

/etc/init.d/networking restart

but the restart fails

mfillpot

It still sounds like the ethernet device either is not registering a driver or that the driver may have issues. Can you please try the command "sudo lspci -vvv|grep -i ethernet -A 35". This will check your pci hardware and output the 35 lines following lines matching the word ethernet, you can adjust the number 35 to how ever many lines are necessary to get to a blank line following the end of the description.

Once you get that information, please paste it here so we know what hardware you are using and what driver is in use.

jo-jo1409

yay have finally got this sorted the problem was a typo in the interfaces file

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet did read

auto eth0
iface eth0 unet static

so i changed it to inet and its all working now

thanks everyone who contributed in suggestions