Disk partitioning fails during Xubuntu 7.04 installation
I've attempted to install Xubuntu 7.04 onto my Toshiba Satellite 1800 PIII 850MHz laptop with 256MB RAM & 15GB HD. It was loaded with and successfully running Xubuntu 6.10. As I'm doing this to experience Linux there were no important files on it so I tried to install the new OS over the old by selecting the option of rewriting the partitions. I'll describe my process:
1. Boot off xubuntu-
2. Xubuntu 7.04 loaded to the login screen requiring username and password but I could not find a combination that worked!
3. Rebooted off xubuntu-
4. This time it booted fully to the Xubuntu desktop (In playing around I've found this double boot process is required each time I try to install Xubuntu 7.04 to get around the login issue)
5. Ran the Install file on the desktop to change from the live CD to a permanent installation
6. When entering the partitioning parameters I selected to automatically use the entire disk for the new partitions
7. Had the following error message returned during the partitioning process:
Failed to create a file system
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE1 master (hda) failed
8. I tried manually creating partitions with (I may be wrong here but I know little about this side of things):
/dev/hda
/dev/hda1 ext3 / 14418MB
/dev/hda5 swap 628MB
9. Received the same error message
10. (I noticed the / had become /media/hda1 automatically)
11. When the installation stops I've noticed that the disk-File Manager window appears showing the lost+found folder with a big white X in a red box on it. It stands out from the other folders because of the X but I don't know if this is normal or not.
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- 2007-04-22
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- 2007-04-20
The only thing I can say you is that the X is normal: that icons means that the folder is root-readable only, and so lost+found should be...
| Richard (rwalker-clear) said : | #2 |
Thank you for clearing that up Alessandro. Hopefully someone can help me with my partitioning problem now.
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I've found the solution through another forum, which states that this is a bug:
A workaround for users of Xubuntu 7.04 with existing partitions on their drives is as follows:
Boot the desktop CD.
Go to Applications -> Settings -> Settings Manager.
Select "File Manager".
Switch to the "Advanced" tab.
Click on the "Configure" link ("Configure the management of removable drives and media ...").
Uncheck "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" and "Mount removable media when inserted".
Close all the windows just opened, and start the installer.
It is located at https:/
that didn't work; there is no described path to settings manager; its under system by another method and it didn't work then either.
| Tolchok (andywolfkid) said : | #5 |
I have played around a bit with the Ubuntu LiveCD and everything seems to work, except for the WLAN card which is an entirely different problem. I decided I liked it enough and went to install it. I went to Install, got through to where it wanted to make a new partition for Ubuntu. I told it to use something along the lines of 25 GB, leaving 80 GB for Windows XP. The partitioning window came up, and the disk spun for a while, but the bar never went past 0%. Eventually, it said it had failed to create the partition and dropped me into a manual setup. Not knowing how to manually adjust the partitions, I went back, to find that the option of resizing had disappeared. I gave up and switched back to Windows, to find that somehow my drive was "dirty" and DSKCHK had to verify things. Once DSKCHK did its thing, I could try the resize option on Ubuntu install again, but the same thing happened, and the drive was "dirty" again. I am concerned that this may end up causing some sort of irreversible harm to my hard drive if I just keep trying the install again.
Other info:
I am running a Dell Inspiron e1505. I have a dual core 1.66GHz Pentium Core2Duo Processor. I have a 16x(I think) CD/DVD drive. I have a 105GB hard drive, which is partitioned into sda1(FAT16), sda2(NTFS-here is windows), sda5, and sda4. I think that both of these last ones are FAT32, and one of them has MediaCenter something. There is also about 8megs free space
| Tolchok (andywolfkid) said : | #6 |
Whoops didn't mean to post that here I thought I was in the "ask a question" page. new to this forum, so I'm not sure how to unsend.
