[aklug] Re: Installing Ubuntu

I hope we are talking about Gutsy Gibbon. If we are then you need to
select the option that says something like "use the entire drive". Don't
try to manually partition. It won't work.

I hate to say it but the partition tool on the live CD is broken. The
partition tool's on the alternate CD let you partition the drive any
which way you want.

Hope that helps.

Ben Everitt wrote:
> If your using the partitioner built within Ubuntu, it won't designate a
> partition for "/". If you don't designate that part in manually during
> the partition phase, the install fails. I was stumped by that too when I
> started using the distro.
>
> -Ben
>
> Neil Moomey wrote:
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>> I was given an old E-Machine (with Windows XP Home ed) and I'm trying to install Ubuntu. I successfully installed an old version of Mandrake but when I install the latest Ubuntu from the Live CD it fails on creating a / partition. I tried ext3 and ext2. I tried another hard drive, same problem. I pulled out all the unecessary cards, checked all my wires, and reseated the memory. Still no go. Any ideas?
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Received on Fri Dec 7 14:40:48 2007