> Why did /sbin/mount.ntfs look suspicious? The output of 'mount -l' displayed the first partition with NTFS as the last one mounted (see the result above). So I suspected /something/ with mounting this type of filesystem (ext3 fs were mounted correctly). Other than that I guessed. And since killing the mount.ntfs process cured my situation, I called it 'suspicious'. That's all.
I also started Windows shortly before starting the installer, so this NTFS volume was in a good shape, no chkdsk or fsck complaints, thank you. > How long did you wait? Several hours (around 5). I left the installer at the aforementioned message and went away for a visit. After returning home it was still in the same place. Trying to cancel the installation and restarting it rendered the installer useless, because it was complaining about the partitioner ending unexpectedly with the error number 10. Talk about informative messages ;-) I restarted the machine from LiveCD and started the installer again. As expected, it stopped in the same moment. Looking proactively, I guessed that something was happening because of ntfs-3g being used by default (up to feisty this was not the case) - just look at the provided mount list, you can easily see fusectl filesystem mounted and winxp partition as fuseblk type instead of simple ntfs. > Isn't it possible that it was importing (searching for and copying) files from > the NTFS partition to the Linux one? I don't think so. It displayed an empty list of other operating systems and didn't offer an option to import the settings. IIRC, when installing Feisty it detected this Windows XP install and the offer for importing settings was displayed correctly. But I haven't used it anyway :-) I work a lot more often with Linux than Windows, so there wouldn't be aby serious profile information to import. ;-) > Thanks. Yup. Thanks for your time too. Still being proactive I will install this version of Gutsy on another machine, with similar partitioning scheme (with WinXP on the first partition, separate /home and several Linux systems as well). Then I'll let you know. -- [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135370 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs