Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: base-installer
Alternate installer is unable to create a new partition to install into.
Using manual partitioning. Here is the existing partition table it shows me:
/dev/sda - 160.0 GB ATA WDC WD1600BJKT-7
#1 primary 238.5 MB fat16
#2 primary 21.0 GB B ntfs
#5 logical 10.5 GB jfs
#6 logical 10.5 GB jfs
#7 logical 5.2 GB swap swap
#8 logical 10.5 GB jfs
pri/log 10.6 GB FREE SPACE
I was trying to create a partition in the free space at the end, but
could not. I tried to fill the space (default) and also tried to create
a small (500M) partition both at the start and at the end of the free
space. In every case I said I wanted a logical partition. In every case,
the partitioner gave an error "Can't have overlapping partitions.".
It was prepared to create a primary partition in the space, but this is
not what I wanted.
I rebooted into Karmic and verified with gparted that the free space was
indeed inside the extended partition, meaning the extended partition
ended at the end of the disk, not at the end of partition #8 with the
free space afterwards. I was able to create the logical partitions I
wanted inside that free space using gparted from Karmic, without
resizing the extended partition.
** Affects: base-installer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Alternate CD unable to create partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542778
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