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Yeah, I’m happy too that you could figure it out by yourself.

Although, I myself prefer simpler, less arcane instructions than those given out by Linux “power users“. I’ve been dabbling with Linux since ’98, yeah! But I still prefer GUI over command line, in particular the *nix shell prompt, no matter what paeans have been sung about it’s power and heft.:rolleyes:

Hi Malcolm

One of the ways, I’d do it would be to try booting that PC off a Linux live disk – could be a flash disk or an optical disk if the PC is too old to support booting of flash disks. Ubuntu’s live disk offers the option to install.

You say you ‘can see’ files on the hard disk ‘in Linux’ – did you boot using a live Linux disk?

Would you be able to photograph the stage during installation just before you get the error, as well as when it errors? and post these over here? Would help immensely in trouble-shooting…

Neeraj
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