Partitioning Woes

[Meier, David J]

I tried posting to the unofficial Ubuntu forums but nobody's biting.
Although there was one person who had the same problems.  Here's what I
originally had posted:

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Well... Coming from a world of Gentoo & FreeBSD I figured I'd throw
Ubuntu on a system laying around. Most of all I wanted to see the new
Debian Sarge installer in all it's glory. Too bad it's seemingly b0rked
on my hardware.

I did a quick search but didn't see anything jump out. What my problem
is the system I'm installing on has 2 hard drives on IDE primary / slave
channels. The system also has 2 SATA controllers... Regardless, those
are empty. Ubuntu install goes fine up until partitioning (of which I am
seasoned in doing). When I try to create my reiserfs partitions it says
the filesystem cannot be created. I switched over to the second TTY and
grepped through /var/log/messages and it was complaining about files not
existing or the like. It's late and I forgot to write them down. Anyway.
So I decided to start over and figured I'd just run the "recommended"
ext3. No luck, the file structure seemingly writes out to the disk
(activity on the disk) but at the end it fails, this time with a tune2fs
type error I believe...

Anyway. I give up for the night. Anyone else have problems with the
official release?

TIA!
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If anybody'd like me to rerun the installer tonight I can again and get
some more specifics.  More or less the installer just can't create any
partitions.

Regards...

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David J. Meier