[Cialug] Installing Xubuntu

[Tim Wilson]

You might try a 2GB partition instead.  I thought the limitation was
2GB instead of 4GB.

On 4/2/07, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org> wrote:
> I was installing Xubuntu 6.10 on an older machine that has a 20G hard
> drive and 1 CD-RW and 1 CD-ROM drive. When I installed it the first 2
> times from the CD (using the text mode install), I told it to use the
> whole drive and automatically partition it. Then when I rebooted from
> the hard drive it gave me a Grub error 18 which from what I understand
> basically means that my booting partition was too big for the BIOS??
>
> So try #3 (third time is supposed to be the charm, right?), I manually
> set up the partitions and set up a 4GB boot partition, and then left
> the rest to / and swap. I rebooted from the hard drive, and now I have
> a Grub error 17 which I am now researching.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
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Tim