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From:
Simon Royal <mrsimonroyal@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Subject: ThinkPad R31 and Ubuntu Install Problems
To: Anglian Linux User Group <
main@lists.alug.org.uk>
Hi
I am struggling to get Ubuntu installed on my ThinkPad R31. I put XP Home on it today and wanted to dual boot with Ubuntu 10.10.
It has a 60GB hard drive split in to 4. 12GB for XP (already installed), 12GB for Ubuntu, 1GB for swap and the rest (which is about 30GB) for files.
I've dual booted before by installing Windows and then telling the Ubuntu partitioner to use the largest free space for Ubuntu and this worked, both with Windows and with dual booting on a PPC Mac.
However it is not working too well this time. I am manually setting the partitions and it seems to be working fine. 1GB for swap set as a swap partition and 12GB as ext4 with mount point /. This is all fine but when the installer continues it say it cannot install file system. I also tried it with ext3 too but the same answer.
I am using a Ubuntu 9.10 CD - purely because it is an official CD and not a burnt one, and it is totally scratch free.
I had similar problems before and the answer was to use the Alternative CD. Apparently Ubiquity - the ubuntu graphical installer - can be a bit ropey at times. It worked with me before, although I was getting a different error message before.
Is there any mileage in downloading the alt cd and using the text based installer. I cannot get this machine to boot from USB so I am going to have to burn it to CD on another machine and only have a couple of blanks left.
Any help would be appreciated.
Simon