Binary package hint: ubiquity
I'm installing the netbook remix version of 10.10 on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v (1011) using a USB thumb drive. I have 4 partitions on my disk. A fat16 (~24MB), a fat32 (~2GB), an empty partition (~150GB), and a swap partition (~6GB). All partitions are primary ones. When installing, I'm specifying the empty partition as "/" and to be reformatted. I would like to preserve my 2 fat partitions.
The copying of files seems to work fine, but then I get a message saying "An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the CD failed" and then the installer crashes.
Looking at the partman file, there are messages about too many primary partitions already exist. Do I need to make one of my partitions an extended one? My swap is larger than I need, but I thought I would leave it as is, since it's not worth the hour of time it takes to resize the partitions. I've attached my syslog and partman files.
I think the problem occurs when apt fails to configure additional packages to be installed from the cdrom - in my case I'm using the usb installer.
my /var/log/syslog says:
grep:
/target/
: No such file or directory
Exception during installation
Traceback(most recent call last):
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InstallStepError: AptSetup failed with code 127