Hi all,
two days ago I wanted to set up another Trisquel Box using the standard 32
Bit ISO and the installer provided in Live mode.
The system is/was nothing special:
- Intel Pentium D 2x2.8 GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- PATA 160GB HDD (Samsung)
- PATA DVDROM
- GeForce 8600GT
I had the system set up previously with Manjaro Linux for testing. So the HDD
was already partitioned. When I started the installation of Trisquel
everything went fine until I reached the part where you can partition your
HDD / choose where the bootloader gets installed.
/dev/sda was shown for the boot manager but the partition layout was greyed
out. I partitioned the HDD with a single primary partition via fdisk, tryed
again but still could not choose the partition layout. After formating the
new generated partition with ext3 the installer then "magically" continued
and I could choose to remove the "existing Linux system".
IIRC I had the same issue when setting up the Trisquel box for my little one.
It also has an old 100 GB PATA HDD as system drive.
Unfortunately I could not find any error messages of the installer under
/var/log. The output of dmesg looked also fine.
Does the Trisquel installer have issues with PATA drives ? I remember that
installing Trisquel x64 to my 16GB USB stick worked like a charm and I could
choose the partitioning of my "HDD" back then.
Regards,
Holger
