{"id":6331,"date":"2014-04-16T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/error-when-atempting-to-install-ubuntu-12-04-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:50:12","slug":"error-when-atempting-to-install-ubuntu-12-04-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/error-when-atempting-to-install-ubuntu-12-04-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Error when atempting to install Ubuntu 12.04-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attemping a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 on what was a Windows XP laptop (HP Pavilon ze4500 with 40GB HDD). Downloaded the ISO image and burned to a DVD. Seems to copy all files OK, askes for location and keyboard and after a while reports<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Installation failed, The installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will now be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am completly new to Linux and have little technical knowledge so simple advice as how to proceed will be welcome. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Follows one example of an attempt to install.<\/p>\n<h3>Install Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>tick for 4.4 GB available, is connected to the internet, other 2 option not ticked this time<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Option 1 Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS &#8211; not selected<\/li>\n<li>Erase Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and reinstall &#8211; not taken<\/li>\n<li>Something else &#8211; Selected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\/dev\/sda \/dev\/sda1 ext4 39000 MB with 2909 MB used \/dev\/sda swap 1004 MB with 0 MB used<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Partition Table<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You have selected an entire devices to partition&#8230; all current partitions will be removed &#8211; can be undone if wished<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now shows<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/dev\/sda free space               40007MB\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Selected ADD.<\/p>\n<p>Create a new partition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary or Logical &#8211; took default of Primary<\/li>\n<li>New partition size changed from 40007 MB to 39000 MB<\/li>\n<li>Location for new partition &#8211; took default of Beginning (rather than end)<\/li>\n<li>Use as Ext4journaling file system (don&#8217;t understand the choices anyway)<\/li>\n<li>Set Mount point with \/ (found this on the Internet otherwise would have never known what to put into here)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now shows<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/dev\/sda\n\/dev\/sda ext 4 \/ tick under Format?, size 38998 MB type unknown \nfree space 1008 MB - changed the type to swap\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>Install now<\/h3>\n<p>After some time the install fails<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The installer encountered a unrecoverable error. A desktop session will not be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>System program problem detected<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attemping a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 on what was a Windows XP laptop (HP Pavilon ze4500 with 40GB HDD). Downloaded the ISO image and burned to a DVD. Seems to copy all files OK, askes for location and keyboard and after a while reports Installation failed, The installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}