I tried to overcome the problem by partitioning the whole of the hard drive. That did not work, so I deleted all empty partitions.
Thereafter, the installer was able to identify the partitions and the unused space. It allowed me to ascertain the number of sectors on the unused space but would not allow me to partition it. My next move, if there is one, will be to add a partition using another distro or installer and install something on it that I'm happy to lose. It seems that the Xubuntu installer is happy to use another distro's nest but will not build its own. sda2, by the way, is an extended partition, encompassing the whole of the disk not included in sda1. -- installer does not recognise existing Linux partitions https://launchpad.net/bugs/71894 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
