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[Nicolás Wolovick <nwolovick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/7/22 Charles-Michel Marle <cmm1934@xxxxxxxxx>

> **
> Good morning!
>
> Yesteday, stimulated by Nicolas Wolovick's message, I tried again to
> install
> ubuntu with kernel 2.6.37 on my ac100, on which was installed, in the
> internal memory,
> phh's latest ubuntu (which I installed following the instructions given on
> the page
> http://salaliitto.com/~gildean/ac100/wiki/phh/). I followed closely the
> instructions given
> on the README file of the page
> http://people.canonical.com/~ogra/tegra/2.6.37/,
> for an internal installation on the largest partition of the internal
> memory.
>
> Alas, I did not succeed. At the beginning all went well, except, maybe,
> messages saying
>
> /script:init-top/plymouth: line 19 /sbin/plymouthd not found
>                                            line 20 /bin/plymouth not found
>
>
> just before the ubuntu installer started. But nevertheless, the ubuntu
> installer started in graphic mode,
> asking for the language, the country, the keyboard configuration,
> my name, password, ...
>
> But then an error message appeared, in French (I make here an approximate
> English translation):
>
> "Sorry, the installer met an error. Report it to
> https://launchpad-net/ubuntu/+sources/ubiquity/+filebug";,
> and asking to join the files /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman.
>
> I tried then to work in console mode (with Control-Alt-F3 or F4), but the
> password
> I had chosen  was not recognized, I could not log in and had to restart the
> ac100.
> So I was unable to look at the files /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman.
>
> After reboot, the installer did not continue its job, instead there was an
> endless cycle of junk on the screen,
> which I stopped by removing the battery and the external source of
> electricity.
>
> I tried again and again, at least 10 times, each time flashing again the
> installer on part 6, putting
> the ubuntu tarball on an usb key (I even tried two different usb keys, and
> also an sdcard). No success!
> Sometimes, the installer was stuck just after the keyboard configuration,
> with the mouse pointer frozen,
> sometimes I got again the "Sorry, the installer met an error" message. Once
> I even tried not to configure the keyboard, letting
> the default US keyboard, with no more success.
>
> Finally I reinstalled on my ac100 phh's latest, which works rather well:
> with it I did not observe any
> instability of the wifi: on my ac100 the wifi is very stable and works
> perfectly. I got once or twice,
> in one month of use, a breakdown (mouse pointer frozen, nothing
> responding), but that occcured rarely.
> Now I have to install again the software I had on my ac100 before this
> attempt (my personal files were
> safely copied on my main computer, I lost nothing).
>
> I do not say that the installation of kernel 2.6.37 does not work, since it
> worked fine for Nicolas Wolovick,
> I just indicate that on my ac100, I was unable to make it work, probably it
> is my fault, but I do not see
> what I did wrong.
>
>
Which exact model? Perhaps there are more people with that model having the
same problems.


Best, Nicolas


>  Best regards to all,
>
> C.-M. Marle
>
>