I am unable to use the Hardy alternate install CD because manual partitioning does recognize the partitions that are already on my hard drive and treats that drive as a single FAT partition.
Fdisk correctly shows the partitions that I am currently using on my drive to run Gutsy and other systems: $ sudo fdisk -lu Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00014061 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 24579449 12289693+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 24579450 34346969 4883760 83 Linux /dev/hda3 34346970 44114489 4883760 83 Linux /dev/hda4 44114490 234436544 95161027+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 44114553 45110519 497983+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 45110583 103699574 29294496 83 Linux /dev/hda7 103699638 105659504 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 105659568 107619434 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 107619498 109579364 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 109579428 111539294 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 111539358 234436544 61448593+ 8e Linux LVM Note that the partitions are in ascending sector order and that none overlap. For some reason, parted (executed by the installer and under Gutsy) thinks that the disk has a "loop" label, which the parted documentation describes as "a fake disk label, that tells Parted to treat the virtual device as a single file system. With this fake disk label, there is either zero or one partition." $ parted -v GNU Parted 1.7.1 $ sudo parted /dev/hda unit chs print Disk /dev/hda: 14593,80,62 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 14593,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB. Partition Table: loop Number Start End File system Flags 1 0,0,0 14593,80,62 fat32 Thus the erroneous loop disk label seems to be causing the parted problems that prevent me from installing Hardy. -- Xubuntu Hardy live installer doesn't detect HDD partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209974 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
