Error while installing 10.10

[nscherneck]

I'm getting an error while installing Ubuntu 10.10 (see attached pic). I first tried to set partitions manually and when I received the error I selected to use the entire disk hoping allowing Ubuntu to set partitions would resolve the issue. Got the same/similar error. Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

[Hakunka-Matata]

More information please: Installing from USB?, CD, PXE

sdb means you have at least two HDDs, a little more information

[nscherneck]

Ah yes, my apologies. And thank you for the response. I'm using a Live CD, booting to the CD-ROM. I've checked the md5sum and have run (not installed) the OS from this Live CD on another machine.

System info:
Dell Optiplex GX150 desktop
Intel Pentium 3 996MHz
256Mb RAM
(2) 20Gb Maxtor HD (IDE)
Running Windows XP Professional SP2 on one drive, attempting to install Ubuntu on the other
Note: this desktop cannot boot to USB

[Hakunka-Matata]

post output of these commands please:


df -h

sudo fdisk -lu


so we can see what kind of partitioning exists on your two HDDs

[nscherneck]

Hakunka, do I run these commands in a terminal within Ubuntu from the Live CD or elsewhere?

[Hakunka-Matata]

Yes, from the Terminal

to avoid typos it's often easier to copy the commands and paste into terminal. If you use Keyboard to paste into terminal, the paste command is CTRL - SHIFT - V