Installer hangs when formating existing partitions on my PPC
Bug #455016 reported by
Vlado Plaga
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: debian-installer
I have various systems on one hard drive on my PPC iMac (MacOS, Fedora 11 with LVM, Fedora 12 alpha, debian stable, debian unstable). Now trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 from today's (Oct 18) daily PPC image failed: after having selected "manual partitioning", and selected two or three partitions to use the installer just stops working. First it said "formating swap partition" or something like that, and sat at 0% for quite some time. I rebooted and tried a manual setup without a swap partition, but this time it just hung when trying to format a small boot partition (100 MByte, ext2).
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| Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx) wrote | #1 |
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Today I tried the installer (yesterday's version) again, and attempted to manually format an existing partition using mkfs.ext2 on another terminal. This command already gets stuck, when run from the installer CD. mkfs.ext2 reports version 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009), but the same version works when called in a full system running from hard disk. mkswap called on its own seems to work, but still the installer also freezes when it says "formatting swap partition". Now I successfully installed Ubuntu on partitions already formatted from my existing Debian system.