bob1776
April 18th, 2009, 04:15 PM
Hello,
I am new to this forum and have only played a little with ubuntu. I was attemping to install 9.04 to my system from the live CD and am seeing the following problems which I do not understand.
Background. System is a E6600 4GB 320GB SATA dual boot XP/2003
I wanted to add 9.04 onto this system and before the install, I did serveral passes of defrag.
The 320GB disk was one partition so I planned on using that for my install.
When I ran the install I had the following problems:
1. Between Steps 3 and 4, the install seem to sit there for at least 2 hours. There was no clue that it was doing any thing or even what it was doing. I think that it was checking partitions but my question here is why it would take 2+ hours to do this.
2. When it finally responded, in step 4, I chose to use the slider to designate 60GB for the ubuntu partition. It opened a popup box that said it was resizing the partition. The next morning, it looked exactly the same...the progress bar still showed 0% done.
3. I canceled the install at this point and when windows rebooted, it ran checkd so I assumed that the install had mucked with the disk and partitions. After reboot, I noted that a 60GB partition was created.
4. I attempted to reinstall at this point, and again between step 3 and 4, it was not completing this action so after about 15 minutes, I canceled and started ubuntu in live CD mode.
5. I then started GPartd and attempted to scan the partitions. After about 1 hour, I tried to cancel this action but it ignored me. Finally canceled the process and rebooted windows.
From this, I have a couple of issues
1. Why does it take so long to partition the disk. This does not give me confidence in the software.
2. Why is there no clue or progress bar between steps 3 and 4 to let the user know what it is attempting to do?
Thank you for listening...
Bob
I am new to this forum and have only played a little with ubuntu. I was attemping to install 9.04 to my system from the live CD and am seeing the following problems which I do not understand.
Background. System is a E6600 4GB 320GB SATA dual boot XP/2003
I wanted to add 9.04 onto this system and before the install, I did serveral passes of defrag.
The 320GB disk was one partition so I planned on using that for my install.
When I ran the install I had the following problems:
1. Between Steps 3 and 4, the install seem to sit there for at least 2 hours. There was no clue that it was doing any thing or even what it was doing. I think that it was checking partitions but my question here is why it would take 2+ hours to do this.
2. When it finally responded, in step 4, I chose to use the slider to designate 60GB for the ubuntu partition. It opened a popup box that said it was resizing the partition. The next morning, it looked exactly the same...the progress bar still showed 0% done.
3. I canceled the install at this point and when windows rebooted, it ran checkd so I assumed that the install had mucked with the disk and partitions. After reboot, I noted that a 60GB partition was created.
4. I attempted to reinstall at this point, and again between step 3 and 4, it was not completing this action so after about 15 minutes, I canceled and started ubuntu in live CD mode.
5. I then started GPartd and attempted to scan the partitions. After about 1 hour, I tried to cancel this action but it ignored me. Finally canceled the process and rebooted windows.
From this, I have a couple of issues
1. Why does it take so long to partition the disk. This does not give me confidence in the software.
2. Why is there no clue or progress bar between steps 3 and 4 to let the user know what it is attempting to do?
Thank you for listening...
Bob