Nearly 60gbs too small?

[Legomaniac25]

Hey everyone,

First of all I would like to thank anyone who replies to this thread in advance.

I have used linux before (fedora core) but have always been hesitant about making the permanent switch. Now that I have made the descision it seems as though hardy heron has it out for me. (It's ok though, I love the troubleshooting process and people like you make it fun)

Simply put when installing ubuntu the automatic partitioner will give me the choice that I want, 60% windows and 40% ubuntu on a 150 gb drive.

If I keep on following the graphical install as it goes, it simply shows me a dialog box that says nothing but "Size too small" and then boots into the live cd...

If you need anymore info about what's going on you guys should let me know and I will respond promptly.

Thanks for your help in advance!

[cdtech]

While in the Live CD, the output of "df -H" could be useful.

Thanks......

[Potatoj316]

do you already have windows installed? If you do try defragmenting the HD before trying to partition.

[Legomaniac25]

Here is the output of df -H


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 531M 17M 514M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
tmpfs 531M 17M 514M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
varrun 531M 107k 530M 1% /var/run
varlock 531M 0 531M 0% /var/lock
udev 531M 37k 531M 1% /dev
devshm 531M 13k 531M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 531M 17k 531M 1% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 531M 85M 446M 16% /home/ubuntu/.gvfs


I will go ahead and defrag in xp. Thanks for the tip.

[ajgreeny]

You must have carried out the df -H in the live CD with no hard disks mounted as there is no disk partition showing and the output is not very helpful. Mount all your hard drives and then repeat the command and it may help a bit more.

[jimv]

sudo fdisk -l would be good too.

[Legomaniac25]

Thanks for your help guys.

When my defrag is done I will boot back into the live cd, mount the drive and give you the outputs of both of the commands.

I should have defragged long long ago, but I have never been one to fully appreciate preventative maintenance until I have something that needs to be maintenanced.

Thanks again, brb.

[benisma]

I don't know if I should jump in here, but I am having the same problem. I ran the two commands above, and this is what I show:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1009M 17M 993M 2% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
tmpfs 1009M 17M 993M 2% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
varrun 1009M 100K 1009M 1% /var/run
varlock 1009M 4.0K 1009M 1% /var/lock
udev 1009M 44K 1009M 1% /dev
devshm 1009M 12K 1009M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1009M 16K 1009M 1% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 1009M 36M 973M 4% /home/ubuntu/.gvfs
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 7 38481 309050437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 38483 38913 3462007+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...


I am having a hard time understanding what my issue is. Thanks from me too! I apologize if I didn't do something right, what is the word for uber noob?

[cdtech]

So you'll want to split the sda2 partition to allow Ubuntu? I would get into window's and create a separate partition to install to. You have dell backup's and utils in their own partitions so using the whole disk is out of the question, unless you wipe it clean.

If you set up a partition within window's you can use the sudo fdisk -l to see the partition it created afterwards and install Ubuntu using that partition.

I guess I explained it correctly...:)

[Legomaniac25]

Well, the disk succesfully completed the defrag and when I went to install again there was no luck.

So here are the values of the suggested commands...


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x958c958c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19453 156256191 7 HPFS/NTFS


and...


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 531M 17M 514M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
tmpfs 531M 17M 514M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
varrun 531M 107k 530M 1% /var/run
varlock 531M 0 531M 0% /var/lock
udev 531M 50k 530M 1% /dev
devshm 531M 13k 531M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 531M 17k 531M 1% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 531M 94M 437M 18% /home/ubuntu/.gvfs
/dev/sda1 161G 97G 64G 61% /media/disk


Thanks again for helping out guys.

[Legomaniac25]

Sorry to bump this, I know people get touchy about bumping sometimes, but I have some new info.

Following the advice of the person two posts above I thought I could just try to make a new partition that I then could install ubuntu on, but since I was already in the live CD I decided to try and use GParted since it was, well, you know right there. Not to mention the fact that I have used it before successfully.

However when it got past the running simulation stage it failed, and didn't actually commit any changes to the drive.

I don't know if this info helps, I think GParted makes a log file when it fails so I can try to run it again and grab that log file if you guys need it.

Thanks again.