Terry wrote: > 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 attach the files. I had to rename one of the syslog files. > > The next installer should be better equipped for retrieving log files. > > Regards.
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