Just had this thought. Fire up gparted in ubuntu while still in trial mode and create whtever partitions you need. Then proceed with intallation
On 5 March 2015 12:53:05 am AEDT, Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: >On 04.03.15 23:41, Jeremy Visser wrote: >> On 4/03/2015 20:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> >Downloaded ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, and burnt a CD. >> > >> >To install on a new hard-drive, selected "Something Else" at the >first >> >"Installation type" dialogue. >> >> Don't do that. > >I just tried it again, to confirm. It is the only way to gain access to >the new drive. Selecting the first option: "Install Ubuntu alongside >them" gives a dialogue headed by a single line device selector, >showing: > >Select drive: SCSI3(0,1,0)(sdc) 40.0 GB ATA WDC WD400JB-00EN > >No type of mouseclickery on the RHS menu triangle thingy causes any >of the other drives to drop down or replace the existing option on the >line - 100% repeatable over many attempts. > >That appears to leave no alternative but to use the only alternative >offered by the GUI ratrun. > >> "Something else" should have been labelled "expert mode". Unless you >have >> some prior partitioning knowledge, use one of the guided options. > >It's no big deal. The only problem with "Something else" is that I've >been unable to make it progress to the next dialogue. It wants a root >partition before proceeding, but offers no way to make one. > >There's nothing intrinsically wrong with "expert mode" - I've used it >successfully in the past. (Though admittedly with a younger brain, and >with older install software, not crippled by the intervening years of >"improvement".) > >I've found a bit more info on parted, and might have a bit of a go with >that. (But will in the end probably download a more recent Debian, and >just install that. When I did that on the laptop, I had MSW blown away, >and Debian up in about half an hour of bringing the lappy home.) > >Erik -- Keith Bainbridge [email protected] +61 (0)447 667 468 Sent from my Apad _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
