installation using hard disk fails if using manual partition

[Niraj Kumar]

Hi,
I am trying to do installation from hard disk using the method described here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromLinux
I have done this several time before with earlier releases.

I am using the Live CD (desktop installer) of alpha3 of Jaunty (9.04).
I already have an existing partition for the installation so that the installer should just format
that partition, without needing to do edit/change any existing partition).
I have chosen manual partition option. (My LiveCD image is on another partition
on the same hard disk).
However, the installation fails saying that it cannot sync the new partition
table to the disk because there are programs already using it.

I think the problem is that the installer is trying to edit the partition unnecessarily.
If a check can be added to execute the partition edit/change/sync only when really
needed, this problem would go away.

-Niraj

[xenophed (xenophed)]

Sounds like what happened to me with kubuntu 9.04 beta after hard reset go install again it operates fine. so I would think that the program is not syncing the partitions properly but reboot it will sync the partitions properly and all I had to do was pick fs type and mount point.Installed good after that.

[xenophed (xenophed)]

happen on two install attempts on different machines

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I believe this was caused by the installer auto mounting the swap partition, which kept the disk busy. This was fixed several years ago since libparted no longer fails when an unrelated partition is in use.