Partitioner problem

[socket]

Hi,

I'm facing some problems when trying to install Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 on my machine.

I have an Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM and 250GB Sata HD, with dual boot Windows XP and Kubuntu 7 (very old, I know).

My HD has the following partitions:


Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfec4fec4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2435 19559106 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2436 30401 224636895 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2436 3748 10546641 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 3749 4793 8393931 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 4794 26474 174152601 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 26475 26746 2184808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 26747 26885 1116486 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10 26886 28251 10972363+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 28252 30401 17269843+ 83 Linux


On /dev/sda8 partition I have the / (root) and on /dev/sda11 the /home.

So, I'm booting the Ubuntu 9.10 CD (Live CD) and when I try to install the O.S., at the partition manager nothing appears to me (blank screen). I also tried to install directly (without booting Live CD), but the same happens.

Take a look at screen-shot (it is in pt-BR):
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii122/r00lz/Screenshot.png

I'm stuck here!

My Live CD is working correctly because I already installed it on other computer (clean install). So, the problem is specifically related to my PC, maybe because of my partitions.

Does anybody can help me?

My best regards.

[louieb]

For what its worth - fdisk listing looks fine - don't see any problem. Or any reason for it not to work. Guess your trying to use manual partitioning? Is that right.

Guess you could try the alternate (text based Debian installer) CD - it uses a different partitioner - might have better results.

[socket]

For what its worth - fdisk listing looks fine - don't see any problem. Or any reason for it not to work. Guess your try to use manual partitioning? Is that right.

Guess you could try the alternate (text based Debian installer) CD - it uses a different partitioner - might have better results.

I was thinking about it... because in older versions I only got success with alternate CD.

I'll give a try, again!

Thanks for your reply!

[ColJep]

I opened a thread with this exact problem yesterday. While writing it I had the idea to try gparted from the live install. This worked and then the installation went fine afterwards.

Obviously something wrong here.

[socket]

It's good (or not) to see that I'm not the only one with this issue!
I'm downloading the Alternate CD... maybe it works!