Ubuntu

Partition program not working

Asked by SuperDuper

I have a 40 GB and a 160GB hard drive.

I tried to install Ubuntu 6.10 on 40 GB hard drive that has three partitions.

Two of the partitions are used for win xp sp2, and the other one sized at 10 GB has Debian base installed.

I started live CD to install, everything went ok but in step 5, partitioning, the partitioner does not respond. I tried Gparted which is in the live CD as well, but the partitioner does not detect anything on the 40gb one which has Debian, and two win xp s.

My com is SONY VAIO PCV-RX360DS P3 866Mhz, 512M RAM. I use Promise Technology's IDE controller because without it my computer cannot utilize hard drive bigger than 100GB.

Any idea as to how to install Ubuntu over my Debian and get that partition program working?

Thanks

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Answered
For:
Ubuntu Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Usually the automatic partitioning will try to find free space on the HD or tries to reduce the size of a partition in order to make room for the new one.

Is it alright for you that your debian partition is totally wiped out?

In this case you could just delete the debian partition before you run the installer and hopefully it would pick up the free space.

You cannot "upgrade" your debian system into the ubuntu system by using the installer. If you try to do this, you would need to change the source.lists file for apt-get to the right repository for ubuntu and then run a dist-upgrade with apt-get. However, this is not a procedure that is very recommendable. It might work, but you might also run in dependency problems of packages etc. Not recommendable if you don't have a lot of experience in the aspects of pacakge upgrades.

Revision history for this message
SuperDuper (tom-bluesky) said : 		#2

Thanks

I deleted debian partition from windows storage manager and ran the installer. (Grub Error 22 occured and not fixed before trying to install Ubuntu). It proceeded to the live Ubuntu.

Still the partitioners does not work.. it does not detect the hard drive.

Any more suggestions?

Revision history for this message
Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

Is the HD detected by linux while running the live CD ?

Revision history for this message
SuperDuper (tom-bluesky) said : 		#4

Basically deleting the debian partition did not do anything. the partitioner still could not detect the unpartitioned space in the 40gb drive where the Debian was. It does not even detect win xp partitions..

Thanks

Revision history for this message
Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#5

Does it detect the drive?

What do you get as the result if you execute

    sudo fdisk -l

from a commandline (terminal)

Revision history for this message
hatari (kassimk) said : 		#6

I have the same problem.

When I enter this command: sudo fdisk -l

I get a blank line.

HELP!

Revision history for this message
elsaturnino (elsaturnino) said : 		#7

I am having a similar problem (except I just have partitions for a current debian installation). "sudo fdisk -l" returns nothing but "sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda" returns my current partition setup.

Can you help with this problem?

Provide an answer of your own, or ask SuperDuper for more information if necessary.

To post a message you must log in.