filesystem woes on ubuntu install on LINK

[Joe Born]

In creating this new placeholder link (ubuntu netbook remix) image for
the nVidia LINKs, while waiting for derobert's debian install, I'm
coming up with a highly unstable image. I get sr0 errors when
installing from cd, the install seems to complete ok, but I regularly
get all kinds of disc errors either requiring fsck or sometimes its
entirely unable to boot. I've tried installing from an external usb
cd rom as well as an internal drive, both yield the same sr0 errors
(and presumably the same filesystem problems). I'm creating a single
ext2 partition, which I would think would be ok. ext2 was stable
enough on the previous release of the link. Help!

[Stelios Valavanis]

i installed from the kubuntu install cd (jaunty) using a pata cd drive and to
a pata hard drive and an ext3 file system with no issue. i've upgraded to
karmic since over the net. dummy check - you using 64bit?

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[Joe Born]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Stelios Valavanis <st...@onshore.com> wrote:
> i installed from the kubuntu install cd (jaunty) using a pata cd drive and to
> a pata hard drive and an ext3 file system with no issue. i've upgraded to
> karmic since over the net. dummy check - you using 64bit?
>

no, I'm using 32 bit.

Something I've noticed since is that using a crucial gizmo plus drive,
I seem to avoid these issues, whereas with the crucial gizmo regular
drives, they seem to be more prevalent. The regular gizmo is
considerably slower in the dd process it takes 1500 sec to write v the
900 for the gizmo plus, somehow it seems thats contributing to the
issue

[Gerry Boland]

You could try md5sum /dev/sd* and compare it with the md5sum of the image.
At least that will verify the write.
-G

2009/11/23 Joe Born <jb...@neurostechnology.com>:

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[Joe Born]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Gerry Boland <gerb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could try md5sum /dev/sd* and compare it with the md5sum of the image.
> At least that will verify the write.

that's a start, I'll give it a shot