Daniele Favara wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:00:48AM +1100, Terry wrote: > >> 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. >> > > If if worked on Mepis and it's based on kubuntu it's probably not based > on kubuntu dapper. For bug reports on installer please attach log files > from /var/log/installer|partman|syslog > > thanks
I suppose that request makes sense to you. Could you walk me through that? The symbol | presumably indicates a paragraph rather than a subfolder. The log files exist, I imagine, only in memory, so I will have to run the live cd and installer again. I want to know what I'm going to do before starting because, otherwise, it could be a complete waste of time. Does the live cd have a tool such as Midnight Commander enabling me to copy the logs to a partition on my hard disk? (A partition which the installer cannot see.) I can probably mount partition sda7 to /mnt/sda7 and use cp to copy if no easier method exists. So then, I guess, I type cp /var/log/installer|partman|syslog /mnt/sda7/home/terry/Current/siriusPartman.log That looks wrong to me. I don't want to spend all day trying to work out how to get it right. I need a tool useable by a human; if I have to use vi, it may take until next century. -- 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
