I've been trying to get help in the beginners forum and that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Perhaps I should have started here. The history, FWIW, is at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1034502
I searched here for the words partition & failure and there were no recent enough hits for 8.10.
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Well, I tried and failed. Installing from the flashdrive I received an inarticulate message indicating that the partitioning failed. Then I tried to install 8.10 from the CD that I used to create the flashdrive. Same inarticulate message. The CD was validated by the checksum (md5) and the check CD option available upon startup.
I am really thankful that the process did not screw up the ******* installation.
At this point I don't know what to do. Is there something to do to analyze the problem?? The CD was cut the day that 8.10 came out. Have there been changes since then that may help?? If so I will cut a new CD but I don't care to as a mere exercise.
The first partitioning option providing a 'suggested' path is idiotic. Granted, the software doesn't know your plans or mine, but the zero growth for ******* and give the maximum possible to Ubuntu is probably the choice with the very lowest likelihood of acceptance. Presuming that I try again (I really want Ubuntu to work) my plan is to create _lots_ of filler and then chose that first option. BTW, that was the option that failed. I didn't chose custom partitioning because I didn't see anything explicit about swapspace and I believe that that is (or was) an issue.
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Besides that 1) the PC is a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 and 2) the disk is a Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 ATA Device.
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