Terry wrote: > There are two options to partition: > > 1. Wipe the partition table [not on my schedule] or > 2. Manually edit the partition table. > > I chose option 2. Another window opened with a progress bar which > stayed at 0% for a good ten minutes. > > When I then activated the installer window, an error message appeared > "critical error during ped_disk_new". > > When I clicked "ok", the window with the progress bar disappeared and I > was left with the installer window supposedly displaying partition > information. > > The only partition listed was /dev/sda. No mention of sda1 - sda8. > Oddly, I had a similar problem with the Xubuntu "installer" which, I > believe, also uses qtparted. > > I repeated the exercise with the same result. > > Cheers and congratulations on the release.
Just thought I would add that I've made a third attempt. This time I let the live cd run without choosing any option at the outset. When I chose the manual edit option in the "partitioner", I got the error message immediately and then the screen containing only the whole hard drive as one partition. The partitions were created by Mandriva and PCLinuxOS. They have been recognised by installers for Fedora, Zenwalk, Sabayon and even Mepis, which is based on Kubuntu. I am quite sure they exist because I have logged on to or used all of them. None are empty, except, possibly, the swap partition. -- Xfce on PCLinuxOS, OOo 2.0.2 (en_GB). Direct mail to teaman is not opened; if necessary, email realmail. If you're seeking, check out http://www.rci.org.au _______________________________________________ Bugs mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ulteo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/bugs
