Server install problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:16:39PM -0500, Jimmie Houchin wrote:

> So I got today's iso Oct-02-04 and installed. Booting succeeded, further 
> installation succeeded. Logging into Gnome stalled.
> It put up the Ubuntu splash screen and stopped. No icons at the bottom, no 
> progress. Ctrl-alt-backspace gets me out and I repeat with same results.

This is https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943

It's proving rather difficult to track down, but it is a high priority.

> The partitioning software absolutely refuses to allow me to configure and 
> partition any disk past the first with doing some kind of partitioning to 
> the first.
> 
> I can't count how many times I select the free partition on the 4th drive 
> and allocate 30mb to the /boot partition, only to find it allocated it to 
> the first drive.
> I repeat again, it allocates another 30mb partition to the first drive. Now 
> it has two.
> I repeat again, it allocates a 30mb partition to the 2nd drive, and then 
> another.
> And so on until I finally reach the drive I am attempting to partition.
> And I've had it once I've gotten 5-6 30mb partitions on the various drives 
> and I've finally gotten one on the drive I want to install to when I added 
> the 4gb root partition. It again went to the first drive.

Please file a bug in bugzilla (use the "partman" component) with the details
of your disk configuration and the steps you followed to arrive at the
problematic situation.

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 - mdz