[Discuss] Crashed computer on Xubuntu install

[Murray Strome]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon <gordon.craig at shaw.ca>
Date: Saturday, December 29, 2007 3:34 am
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Crashed computer on Xubuntu install
To: ruairi at langkamerit.com, discuss at vlug.org

> I tried that, three or four times. Each time I got to the 
> partition section, 
> it seemed to have problems doing the partitioning. Each try 
> ended up with 
> the same results, in any case. I'll try it again tomorrow. I 
> definitely do 
> not do my best thinking late at night, so maybe tomorrow when 
> I'm fresh I 
> can get around this partitioning issue.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Gord Craig. 

Any chance you have something wrong with your HD?  I once had a drive with bad blocks and had a similar problem. You might be able to check it with the Ultimate Boot CD ( http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ ).



Murray