Installation Woes7.10 on a spare 500 GB drive and it a

Fri Jan 4 21:37:17 UTC 2008

On 04/01/2008, Keith Clark <keithclark1966 at rogers.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install Ubuntu and it always fails saying that the formatting has failed.  Any ideas?

Can you try using something else to do the partitioning and
formatting? E.g. PartitionMagic, or the SystemRescueCD, or Knoppix, or
something like that? That would give you a bit more info to go on...

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