Comment 36 for bug 99908

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dougj (doug+ub) wrote :

I also was stuck on the "Creating ext3 file system for / in partition #1 on SCSI1 (0.0.0)" error for a long time. The answer is to use the separate partition editor to create new partitions, then do the installation and use those existing partitions. I finally installed Ubuntu 9.04 this way on an old formerly-XP computer.

See also
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580437
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2718455#post2718455