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Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 11:58 AM
Hi guys.. I'm new of this forum and either of Ubuntu itself (I used Slackware for years some times ago).

I wanted to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook Samsung N150 but the installation from the pendrive freezes after the partition table specification, both in the case of the manual specification and in the case of the automatic path. I (think correctly..) specified 35 GB of ext4 journ (but I tried also with ext3 journ) and 1GB of swap but when I confirm these specs the installation freeze yet at the "Searching for the file system" (I use a localized lang but I think this is a quite literal translation), when I'm asked for the time zone..

What's the problem with? Thank you all.

Dutch70
March 19th, 2011, 12:02 PM
Welcome to UF Warriah,

Could you post a pic of your partitions from Gparted? Just use the paper clip in the toolbar to attach the pic so we can have a look at them.

Rubi1200
March 19th, 2011, 12:18 PM
Hi,

as well as the screenshot, please post the output of this command from the terminal (Applications > Accessories):


sudo fdisk -lu
lowercase L not 1

Thanks.

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 12:39 PM
Thank you for your help,

here the screens (splitted in two since the 10'' doesn't fit them all)

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/705/img00991.th.jpg (http://img846.imageshack.us/i/img00991.jpg/)

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/3421/img00821v.th.jpg (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/img00821v.jpg/)

Note: "Sconosciuto" means "Unknown" or not specified yet.

Sorry for the localization..I didn't choose English only for the keyboard layout.

as soon as possible I'll provide also the output of the command line required.

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 12:52 PM
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/2130/img01031.th.jpg (http://img856.imageshack.us/i/img01031.jpg/)


:)

As far I know (I own the netbook since a week) in the hard-disk there are:
- two win7 partition (the usual C:\ and a backup partition D:\)
- a "hidden" partition for the recovery of Win7
- partitions eventually originated today from failed Ubuntu installations (around 34-35GB for root and 1GB for swap)


EDIT: I fixed also the two previous screenshots.

Rubi1200
March 19th, 2011, 03:06 PM
There seems to be a mismatch between what the Ubuntu installer is reporting as your partition layout and what fdisk is showing.

I need to check a few things and will get back to you on this as soon as I can.

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 03:19 PM
To make the situation more clear I checked with a software on Win7 and I can conclude

sda1 --> *: SYSTEM / 0,1 GB / NTFS (I don't have any clue on why this partition)
sda2 --> C: / 110 GB / NTFS
sda3 --> ?? does appear only with fdisk.. It should be the free space
sda4 --> *: SAMSUNG RECOVERY / 16 GB / NTFS
sda5 --> D: / 80 GB / NTFS

sda6
sda7

the two with Ubuntu I'm trying to write.

Rubi1200
March 19th, 2011, 03:39 PM
Hi,

please do the following:

Boot the Ubuntu Live CD/USB. Choose the option "Try Ubuntu without any changes." Once the desktop loads come back here and do the following:

1. Download the boot info script. There is a link in my signature.
2. Once downloaded, move the boot info script to the desktop.
3. Open a terminal and run the command


sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh

This will create a RESULTS.txt file on the desktop. Paste the entire contents of that file back here in a new post. Once pasted highlight all text and click the # sign on the toolbar to place code tags around the text.

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 04:20 PM
NOTE: Waiting for some replies I moved the free partition to the right of D (since it originated from C partition it was between C and D). This may have affected the name sd* of the free space (the old sda4 is now sda3 and vice versa).


Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Syslinux is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /BOOT/BCD

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files/dirs: /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /boot/bcd

sda4: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 206,848 215,126,311 214,919,464 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 455,153,580 488,392,064 33,238,485 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 215,126,415 384,869,204 169,742,790 f W95 Ext d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 215,126,478 384,869,204 169,742,727 7 HPFS/NTFS


Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sdb: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
145 heads, 48 sectors/track, 1125 cylinders, total 7831552 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 48 7,831,551 7,831,504 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 D00A504B0A503128 ntfs SYSTEM
/dev/sda2 5EDC9D9DDC9D704F ntfs
/dev/sda3 261A1B531A1B1EFD ntfs SAMSUNG_REC
/dev/sda4: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda5 7E2AA9442AA8FA73 ntfs
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1 2D12-0CE7 vfat PENDRIVE
/dev/sdb: PTTYPE="dos"

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 /cdrom vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437, iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)

=========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =======================

Unknown BootLoader on sdb1

00000000 eb 58 90 53 59 53 4c 49 4e 55 58 00 02 08 24 00 |.X.SYSLINUX...$.|
00000010 02 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 30 00 00 00 |........?...0...|
00000020 d0 7f 77 00 d2 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |..w.............|
00000030 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 00 29 e7 0c 12 2d 4e 4f 20 4e 41 4d 45 20 20 |..)...-NO NAME |
00000050 20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20 fa fc 31 c9 8e d1 | FAT32 ..1...|
00000060 bc 76 7b 52 06 57 1e 56 8e c1 b1 26 bf 78 7b f3 |.v{R.W.V...&.x{.|
00000070 a5 8e d9 bb 78 00 0f b4 37 0f a0 56 20 d2 78 1b |....x...7..V .x.|
00000080 31 c0 b1 06 89 3f 89 47 02 f3 64 a5 8a 0e 18 7c |1....?.G..d....||
00000090 88 4d bc 50 50 50 50 cd 13 eb 5c 8b 55 aa 8b 75 |.M.PPPP...\.U..u|
000000a0 a8 c1 ee 04 01 f2 81 fa b7 07 73 2b f6 45 b4 7f |..........s+.E..|
000000b0 75 25 38 4d b8 74 20 66 3d 21 47 50 54 75 10 80 |u%8M.t f=!GPTu..|
000000c0 7d b8 ed 75 0a 66 ff 75 ec 66 ff 75 e8 eb 0f 51 |}..u.f.u.f.u...Q|
000000d0 51 66 ff 75 bc eb 07 51 51 66 ff 36 1c 7c b4 08 |Qf.u...QQf.6.|..|
000000e0 cd 13 72 13 20 e4 75 0f c1 ea 08 42 89 16 1a 7c |..r. .u....B...||
000000f0 83 e1 3f 89 0e 18 7c fb bb aa 55 b4 41 8a 16 74 |..?...|...U.A..t|
00000100 7b cd 13 72 10 81 fb 55 aa 75 0a f6 c1 01 74 05 |{..r...U.u....t.|
00000110 c6 06 45 7d 00 66 b8 b0 64 68 00 66 ba 00 00 00 |..E}.f..dh.f....|
00000120 00 bb 00 7e e8 10 00 66 81 3e 24 7e d4 ff 73 72 |...~...f.>$~..sr|
00000130 75 76 ea 38 7e 00 00 66 03 06 60 7b 66 13 16 64 |uv.8~..f..`{f..d|
00000140 7b b9 10 00 eb 2b 66 52 66 50 06 53 6a 01 6a 10 |{....+fRfP.Sj.j.|
00000150 89 e6 66 60 b4 42 e8 7f 00 66 61 8d 64 10 72 01 |..f`.B...fa.d.r.|
00000160 c3 66 60 31 c0 e8 70 00 66 61 e2 da c6 06 45 7d |.f`1..p.fa....E}|
00000170 2b 66 60 66 0f b7 36 18 7c 66 0f b7 3e 1a 7c 66 |+f`f..6.|f..>.|f|
00000180 f7 f6 31 c9 87 ca 66 f7 f7 66 3d ff 03 00 00 77 |..1...f..f=....w|
00000190 17 c0 e4 06 41 08 e1 88 c5 88 d6 b8 01 02 e8 37 |....A..........7|
000001a0 00 66 61 72 01 c3 e2 c9 31 f6 8e d6 bc 68 7b 8e |.far....1....h{.|
000001b0 de 66 8f 06 78 00 be df 7d e8 09 00 31 c0 cd 16 |.f..x...}...1...|
000001c0 cd 19 f4 eb fd 66 60 ac 20 c0 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 |.....f`. .t.....|
000001d0 00 cd 10 eb f2 66 61 c3 8a 16 74 7b cd 13 c3 42 |.....fa...t{...B|
000001e0 6f 6f 74 20 65 72 72 6f 72 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 |oot error.......|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200

Rubi1200
March 19th, 2011, 04:36 PM
Hi,
this is what I see from the results:

3 primary partitions with essential files needed for Windows.

1 extended partition with a logical partition.

What are you using sda5 for?

If it was me, that is where I would want to install Ubuntu.

Be aware, that the 10.10 installer has been known to cause problems, so please choose the manual partitioning option.

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 04:39 PM
Hi,
this is what I see from the results:

3 primary partitions with essential files needed for Windows.

1 extended partition with a logical partition.

What are you using sda5 for?

If it was me, that is where I would want to install Ubuntu.

Be aware, that the 10.10 installer has been known to cause problems, so please choose the manual partitioning option.

hmm..

/dev/sda1 -> SYSTEM (hidden to win)
/dev/sda2 -> C:
/dev/sda3 -> SAMSUNG_REC (hidden to win)
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda5

your is a good point.. sda4 and sda5 should be the free space and the D:\ (which is empty excepting for sys/hidden files) but the order isn't that clear and the same goes for the Start/End/Id System attributes.. maybe I should try to get rid of both of them and installing Ubuntu in the NEW free space I'll get

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 05:01 PM
Nope.. still the same problem.

Maybe I should try with Ubuntu desktop.


EDIT: With Ubuntu desktop the same problem. (Obviously they share the same software but maybe it was a corrupted file or something like this..)


What I do:

- remove sda5
- generate (from the existing free space + additional space from sda5) a ext4+j new logic* partition for /
- generate a ext4+j partition for /home
- generate a swap partition


*if I generate instead a primary partition, after that I can't generate other partitions for the remaining space because it is labeled as "not usable" (maybe it is for the 4 primary partitions limit?)

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 06:25 PM
I'm started to think that it could be the same problem as http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594354 .. I'll try the same solution

Rubi1200
March 19th, 2011, 06:31 PM
It might be? I think running chkdsk and defragmenting might be a good idea too.

Make sure you have backups of important data before starting.

Warriah
March 19th, 2011, 11:25 PM
sob, I realized again why I left Linux some years ago after long time of profitable usage..I lost a half of a day for getting a freeze of gparted while creating and extended partition. I hope that it won't damage the table or the hd itself. I'm downloading a bootable gparted different than the one from ubuntu (that freezes so often) hoping to fix the problem.

A question: can I put all the linux partitions (swap, root and home) in an extended one or in that case they won't boot?

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 12:21 AM
I set up perfectly the partition (1 extended with 4 logical: swap, root, home e common in fat32) but the freeze still occurs. I think I'll give another chance to an older version like the 10.04 which is said to be more stable and eventually I'll try another distribution. :(

Dutch70
March 20th, 2011, 03:55 AM
If 10.10 is freezing on you, 10.04 will likely freeze also. What video card do you have?

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 10:25 AM
It is a superstandard integrated Intel chipset.. This netbook (Samsung N150) is like the other millions out there. :p

In fact I heard (on Google results) of other guys obtaining Ubuntu running on this netbook.

I'll post the same images as before with the new configuration if the installation go screwed again.

Rubi1200
March 20th, 2011, 10:35 AM
Did you run chkdsk as suggested?

Was the drive ever part of a RAID array?

Have you considered trying the Alternate CD?

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 10:41 AM
Did you run chkdsk as suggested?

I think chkdsk automatically runned a couple of times while booting Windows after the various shrinking/resizing without problems, however I'll run chkdisk another time after I download the distros.



Was the drive ever part of a RAID array?

No. (It is a netbook, I recall it)


Have you considered trying the Alternate CD?Never hard about. I googled but I think it shouldn't be necessary to use a textual based installer since I have a standard integrated video.. :(

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 11:14 AM
Oh dear this time it happened a very strange thing.. As I said earlier I tried with a 10.04 netbook edition.

The order of the installation steps is a bit different with this earlier distro: I specified language, layout, time zone, then partitions and account info. I clicked on "Next" but.. The window returned to the main view (with the various apps ready to run). It didn't freeze but it didn't progress either.. After about 10 minutes admiring this sort of Ubuntu-live homepage, I rebooted.. But it seems that it was installing somewhat! It installed GRUB and at least a part of the distro (which now starts and works(?) without the pendrive inserted).

Some windows could have said "Ehy, I'm installing".. O.o

However I would to go back to 10.10 for two reasons:
- Since I restarted, the installation could be corrupted somewhere
- 10.04 doesn't recognize on-the-fly the wireless connection I have

If the 10.04 would have done the dirty job of good partitioning then maybe 10.10 could work this time..

PS. Maybe GNOME is revenging since I used to be a KDE-fan? XD

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 11:50 AM
fullsize to reduce lcd artifacts

http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/2452/img0110uw.th.jpg (http://img860.imageshack.us/i/img0110uw.jpg/)

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8388/img0107r.th.jpg (http://img717.imageshack.us/i/img0107r.jpg/)

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/3262/img0108u.th.jpg (http://img853.imageshack.us/i/img0108u.jpg/)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2710/img0111ne.th.jpg (http://img218.imageshack.us/i/img0111ne.jpg/)

](*,)

EDIT: I also ran chkdisk and the result is OK (no damaged sectors or any other problem).

Dutch70
March 20th, 2011, 12:10 PM
The only thing I can really make out of your last post is that Ubuntu is at least partially installed and you can boot into it.
Have you tried updating it by running the following in terminal?


sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 01:29 PM
It's upgrading.. (I've had to connect via eth instead of wireless because 10.04 was unable to detect or connect to the network)

At the end of apt-get upgrading I'll have a 10.10 brand new? (I'm not so expert of packages manager since I used Slackware until now)

Dutch70
March 20th, 2011, 03:04 PM
Hopefully that will fix any issues you had. Including the wireless. If not, and you can't find anything via the search tool or google. Just start another thread on the subject.

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 03:28 PM
It seems it works almost all I'm trying to run.. I apt-updated and upgraded and now I'm upgrading the minor version through the instructions found here: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/netbook/get-ubuntu/upgrade ..I'll post the result soon.

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 04:42 PM
It seems I got a 10.10 after all.. Unsure whether to put the Resolved tag in the title bar.. :D

Dutch70
March 20th, 2011, 04:47 PM
Great, It should be fine. Only mark it solved when you're satisfied that it's taken care of. On the other hand, this thread is titled "Ubuntu installation freezes after the partitions specification"

I think that problem is definitely taken care of. If you have any more problems, you'd want to start a new thread titled correctly anyway, but I'll leave that up to you.

Good luck, hope it all works out for you.

Warriah
March 20th, 2011, 05:39 PM
Yep.. the only think that still doesn't work is the samsung-tools & co. packages, but it is a completely different story. Thank you for your help. ;-)

Dutch70
March 20th, 2011, 08:22 PM
Your quite welcome!!!