[LAU] installation weirdness

[Jostein Chr. Andersen]

Den Wednesday 29 April 2009 13.38.06 skrev Dave Phillips:
> Greetings,
>
> Yesterday I tried to install the i386 version of the new Ubuntu Studio
> 9.04. I erased some partitions, got everything set up and going
> swimmingly, then after a while I noticed that the installer had hung up
> at an error. The error message informed me that the Select And Install
> Software stage had failed. I chose to continue, went on to install Grub,
> and then it failed too, with a similar message re: failure to install
> Grub. Alas, at this point the installer went spinning into the dead
> zone. I couldn't proceed, the error panel obscured the continuation
> panel, and I eventually had abort the installation. Fortunately my 64
> Studio partition was untouched, and the installer had left my original
> Grub menu intact, so I still have a workable system on this machine.
>
> Incidentally, the error message advises lowering the speed of my CD/DVD
> drive. How can I make that happen ?
>
> The machine is my laptop, an HP G60 powered by a Turion X2. I've had
> problems installing other systems on this hardware, but some others have
> installed without complaint (Ubuntu Intrepid, 64 Studio 3b).
>
> I'm going to try the 64-bit version today, hopefully I'll have better
> luck, but I was hoping to install a 32-bit system on this partition. Any
> advice from the experts before I try the 64-bit install ?

The only two issues I know about is that you should avoid ext4 for now and you 
might experience (I did) system freeze (on smp machines) with the RT-kernel. 
If you get system freeze, then just add nosmp to your kernel parameter in 
Grub's menu.lst and then you're ok.

I choosed to just install Kubuntu this time and then add the RT kernel. I have 
also compiled almost every music related apps (from jackd with deps and 
upwards) and libs from scratch. No problems so far. The reason of compiling is 
that the libs IMO tends to shortly be to old when some new plugins and apps 
arrive.

Jostein