tonyl1956
February 11th, 2010, 02:58 PM
Hi,
My first post, though I've been a lurker and a user for some time.
I'm trying to install 9.10 on a PICO820, a small Atom-based board from Axiomtek, for a work project. 9.10 runs well from a USB stick made using unetbootin, so I anticipated it would install to a hard drive without too many issues. However, I don't seem to be getting anywhere fast. The HDD is a new 3.5" SATA cheapie of 250GB capacity.
I'm trying to install by from the desktop icon.
The first issues I had were when using the auto partition/format option at step 4. After completing the other screens, the machine started the process but halted at 5% of the partitioning phase. Repeated attempts lead always to the same result. I cleared the partly finished partitions using gparted, either on the machine itself or attached to a desktop also running 9.10. Sometimes, the failure to partition was accompanied by screen effects - flashing and blurring.
To get around the partition issues, I partitioned the disk manually attached to the desktop machine - 1 extended partition containing 3 logical partitions (swap, Ext3 root, Ext3 home). Interestingly, attempts to partition the disk from the PICO failed. Successful partitioning attached to the desktop has now allowed install to commence and it reaches 28% before freezing on the display.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to know what to do next. I've checked the MD5 checksum of the .iso file and redone the unetbootin stage. I've also run the smart tools check of the HDD.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be very grateful.
Tony
My first post, though I've been a lurker and a user for some time.
I'm trying to install 9.10 on a PICO820, a small Atom-based board from Axiomtek, for a work project. 9.10 runs well from a USB stick made using unetbootin, so I anticipated it would install to a hard drive without too many issues. However, I don't seem to be getting anywhere fast. The HDD is a new 3.5" SATA cheapie of 250GB capacity.
I'm trying to install by from the desktop icon.
The first issues I had were when using the auto partition/format option at step 4. After completing the other screens, the machine started the process but halted at 5% of the partitioning phase. Repeated attempts lead always to the same result. I cleared the partly finished partitions using gparted, either on the machine itself or attached to a desktop also running 9.10. Sometimes, the failure to partition was accompanied by screen effects - flashing and blurring.
To get around the partition issues, I partitioned the disk manually attached to the desktop machine - 1 extended partition containing 3 logical partitions (swap, Ext3 root, Ext3 home). Interestingly, attempts to partition the disk from the PICO failed. Successful partitioning attached to the desktop has now allowed install to commence and it reaches 28% before freezing on the display.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to know what to do next. I've checked the MD5 checksum of the .iso file and redone the unetbootin stage. I've also run the smart tools check of the HDD.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be very grateful.
Tony