When partitioning a new system the same problem was experienced. Recreating this is relatively simple, although I am unsure of the exact prompts received so the following contains substantial paraphrasing: -
1. Boot using LiveCD and when prompted choose the manual partitioner. 2. Delete all partitions, create partitions sufficient for a working Ubuntu installation (i.e. a swap partition and ext3/reiserfs partition to be mounted as root) *and* a new NTFS partition. 3. Ok these changes, this should work as expected (new partitions created). 4. When the installer reaches the step where the user is given the option of specifying mount points, add the NTFS partition created in step 2 manually. 5. OK this and the installer will continue until it reaches the point mentioned in the initial bug report. It fails to mount the new NTFS partition (I don't think it's even formatted the partition as NTFS at this point). 6. The user is then given the option of 'Continue' or 'Go Back'. In this instance 'Go Back' was selected. The installer did exactly the same thing: silently disappeared. Note: the behaviour described in this comment was observed in the Edgy Eft Beta installer. -- Ubuntu 6.0.6 Installer disc formatter aborted, can't mount NTFS partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/62871 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
