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

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:10 +0000
schrieb Bernard Peek <bernard.peek at gmail.com>:

> Keith Clark wrote:
> > I am trying to install Ubuntu and it always fails saying that the
> > formatting has failed.  Any ideas?
> >
> >   
> I had a similar problem some years ago with a RedHat distro. The
> fdisk program consistently segfaulted, I eventually found out by
> looking at a different console. I never did find a fix.

This is very helpful :(. I could imagine dozens of reasons for his
problem. The chance that a bug from an old fdisk from RedHat has
survived years and made it into Ubuntu is rather small.
This info may lead only in a wrong direction.

Gerald