Comment 4 for bug 164481

Thanks for the info Godrik.. I will give this a try sometime.

To the dev.. sorry I haven't had a chance to test this yet. My new year has been hectic so far. Hopefull I'll be able to test this in about 2 weeks time.

Cheers
Rax

godrik <email address hidden> wrote: Hello,
i had the same problem using ubuntu 7.10. The installer stops at 15% an "detecting filesystems".
The log does not indicate anything interesting. However, i found an easy workaround.
In a terminal, check the device(s) associated with your external drive using df or mount. (at home, it was sdb1).
Then, unmount it using sudo umount /dev/sdb1
The installer is still blocked.
get the pid of 01unmount_busy. It should be the first in top then kill it.
the installer will re-ask you about the partionning.
This time, it will work.

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install to external hdd fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164481
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