rocketssss
August 15th, 2008, 12:25 PM
I'm trying to throw Xubuntu on an older system, which is being stubborn. It is a 500Mhz, 256MB RAM machine with a BIOS that Ubuntu says is from 1999 and fails the ACPI cutoff (which is fine seeing as that only seems to disable sleep mode, which I didn't expect to work anyway). The system has been stubborn in that even when I tell it to boot from the CD, it still boots into Windows 98, so I used the Ubuntu Wubi installer to add a boot option, and I plan to turn it into Xubuntu later.
My problem is, it gets through the installation setup, then fails at 5% saying it failed to create the swap partition. I tried going to manual mode and having only one partition w/o swap space, but then it failed on creating the main partition. It sees my hard drive in auto mode (IDE3 13.6GB IBM-DJNA-371350), but can't partition it.
I found this was similar to this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=857599), and I followed the advice of using gparted before installation, but with the partition editor it cannot see my hard drive. Any ideas?
My problem is, it gets through the installation setup, then fails at 5% saying it failed to create the swap partition. I tried going to manual mode and having only one partition w/o swap space, but then it failed on creating the main partition. It sees my hard drive in auto mode (IDE3 13.6GB IBM-DJNA-371350), but can't partition it.
I found this was similar to this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=857599), and I followed the advice of using gparted before installation, but with the partition editor it cannot see my hard drive. Any ideas?