joeythebean
February 26th, 2009, 12:56 AM
Evening everyone. I'm really struggling to get Ubuntu installed on my computer. Its a second hand home built desktop.
There seems to be no problem running Ubuntu from the CD but when I try to install it always fails at the HD partitioning stage.
The error is:
"Failed to create a swap space
The creation of a swap space in partition #5 of SCS15 (0,0,0) (sda) failed"
I've been looking around on forums for a few days now but can't find a solution anywhere. GParted can't detect the HD either and I'm getting no response after pressing F4 on start up to access RAID setting, so it seems to be that there aren't any drivers for the HD. So I look for drivers for a Seagate internal 120GB and find that they're nowhere, and how would I install them anyway as I don't have an OS?
Seriously lost and seriously new to linux so help would be much appreciated.
I've tried updates for GParted, entering "acpi = force irqpoll" on installation, and I've even tried installing XP which again fails at the "examining hard disk" stage.
Thanks in advance.
Joe
There seems to be no problem running Ubuntu from the CD but when I try to install it always fails at the HD partitioning stage.
The error is:
"Failed to create a swap space
The creation of a swap space in partition #5 of SCS15 (0,0,0) (sda) failed"
I've been looking around on forums for a few days now but can't find a solution anywhere. GParted can't detect the HD either and I'm getting no response after pressing F4 on start up to access RAID setting, so it seems to be that there aren't any drivers for the HD. So I look for drivers for a Seagate internal 120GB and find that they're nowhere, and how would I install them anyway as I don't have an OS?
Seriously lost and seriously new to linux so help would be much appreciated.
I've tried updates for GParted, entering "acpi = force irqpoll" on installation, and I've even tried installing XP which again fails at the "examining hard disk" stage.
Thanks in advance.
Joe