Not able to install ubuntu

[Tim and Emily Wilson]

Thanks for your advice.  Unfortunitly I didn't work ( I got the same
error when it was trying to  format the drive).  I have been trying
with different distros and have decided that I like Ubuntu the best. 
I had installed it on this computer a few weeks ago and it worked just
fine.  Then I tried Gentoo and didn't like it so I decided to go with
ubuntu, but this time it didn't work.


On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:18:00 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:36 -0500, Tim and Emily Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have been trying for several days to install ubuntu, but everytime I
> > get to the partintioning of the disk I get an error.  I have Windows
> > XP on hda1 and want to install ubuntu on hda2 and swap on hda3.  I
> > tried to install FC3 and it worked fine, so I don't think there is a
> > problem with my disk.  The error I get is that partition #2 could not
> > be formatted.  Does anyone have any ideas how I can get around this?
> > --
> > Tim Wilson
> >
> 
> One way would be to go to Manually Edit Partition Table in the setup
> routine, then delete the existing linux partitions, then point the
> partitioner at the free space and "Automatically Partition The Free
> Space" should be one of the options. This will then setup a new swap and
> root partition for you.
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> David
> 
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