xgtu
February 17th, 2009, 05:54 AM
Hi. I'm trying to become a Ubuntu user, but am stuck on the partitioning step. Wiped my IBM Thinkpad 240x (no cd-rom) of Win2k and am using the Xubuntu 8.10 Alternate ISO. My laptop is a Pentium 3 PC with 192MB RAM & 12GB HD. I used my desktop PC to format and partition the HD with a 1GB primary partition and a 1GB extended partition containing the .iso file in a folder called hd-media (also holds vmlinuz & initrd.gz). The rest of the HD is free space.
When I got to the partitioning step of the install, the menu gave me 3 options but none to actually partition:
>Help on partitioning
>Blank line
>Blank line
>Undo changes to partitions
>Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
Fdisk -l output (after switching via CTL+ALT+F2):
Disk /dev/sda: 12.0 GB, 12072517632 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1467 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk Identifier: 0xa60e728b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 128 1028128+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 129 1467 10755517+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 129 256 1028128+ b W95 FAT32
Got over several hurdles earlier in the install and thought I was on my way to completion. I'm really stuck.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. ~xgtu
When I got to the partitioning step of the install, the menu gave me 3 options but none to actually partition:
>Help on partitioning
>Blank line
>Blank line
>Undo changes to partitions
>Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
Fdisk -l output (after switching via CTL+ALT+F2):
Disk /dev/sda: 12.0 GB, 12072517632 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1467 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk Identifier: 0xa60e728b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 128 1028128+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 129 1467 10755517+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 129 256 1028128+ b W95 FAT32
Got over several hurdles earlier in the install and thought I was on my way to completion. I'm really stuck.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. ~xgtu