partitioning fails during install (herd 5 kub alt)
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I just tried installing herd 5 using the alternate cd but couldn't get past the partition stage.
My drive has a win ntfs partition, then a fat32 and then I had let the edgy install use the remaing space and it created a swap and /. I deleted these before trying herd 5 so there was just freespace at the end of the drive.
At the partitioning stage of the install I got 4 choices, the first was something about a cd? which I didn't understand then three 'guided' options, there was no manual option that I could see. I tried the 'guided use free space' option but it just goes to a red screen with a message about there being no root partition allocated. There are two buttons, continue and go back, IIRC. Clicking either just reloads the red warning screen so I had to restart and abandon install.
I checked the md5sum of both the iso and the burnt cd and they were fine.
I was trying to install on my laptop (fujitsu-siemens pi1505) that has a sata disk but this wasn't a problem when I installed edgy.
Im having the same issue on Xubuntu Herd 5 on a XPS 1210 laptop. I'm using the alternate-install cd and once at the partitioning menu, I see no option for manual partitioning. If I click on ANY option, I get the red screen as well as a message - "No Root Filesystems"
I cant go back from this step