[jaunty alpha3] the live-installer partioning doesn't work at all after doing complex setup with gparted

[Bernard Drapeau]

I downloaded jaunty-dvd-i386.iso dated 20090203.

I use 3 sata disks in my box.
The first disk has Windows XP, /boot (grub 0.97), swap and Ubuntu 8.10.
I try to install Jaunty on /dev/sdb2 (boot) and /dev/sdb6 (root).
I will also install Ubuntu 8.10 on /dev/sdb1 (boot) and /dev/sdb5 (root).
I will also install another configuration of Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 for development in sdb3 and sdb7

I booted the live DVD and used Gparted to partition /dev/sdb (SATA 400 GB) in 9 partitions.
I will boot-chain from the /dev/sda2 onto the primary partitions on sdb disk.

I booted the jaunty live-dvd and partitioned sdb with ext2 and ext3 file system.
Once finished I proceeded installing the program.
In the partitioning stage, I chose the manual operation.
I select /boot (sdb2), / (sdb6), /cache (sdb8), /data (sdb9) without formatting.
The configuration is using swap at sda3.

I cannot proceed installation!

By clicking the foward button, the installation program displays this message.

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File system has an incompatible feature enabled. Compatible features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super and large_file. Use tune2fs or debugfs to remove features.
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I click Cancel and try to mark the check boxes for formatting. The system doesn't allow me to check the dialog boxes.

I click again the forward button. The installation program displays this message.

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No root file system is defined.

Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
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I click on the delete partition button.

The message is:
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Partman failed with exit code 141. Further information may be found in /var/log/syslog. Do you want to try running this step again before continuing? If you do not, your installation may fail entirely or may be broken.
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I included the syslog file to the report.

I cannot install Ubuntu from the graphical interface of the live DVD.
I'll try the textmode installation.

[Bernard Drapeau (bernard-drapeau)]

I tried the installation in text mode. It worked.

The partition selection stopped to confirm formating the swap.
There was a message saying the partitions contained too much information but it didn't prevent the installation.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This was fixed several years ago by avoiding the use of the broken/depreciated libparted ext2 code.