problem installing 10.04 LTS partitioning for RAID

william drescher william at TechServSys.com
Wed May 25 17:44:43 UTC 2011


On 5/24/2011 11:56 AM, william drescher wrote:
> On 5/24/2011 11:45 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:26 PM, william drescher
>> <william at techservsys.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In the partition settings, in manual mode, try creating a new
>>>> partition
>>>> table.
>>>>
>>>> An alternative is to boot into live-cd, run fdisk, press o to
>>>> create a
>>>> new dos partition table, press w to write the partition table
>>>> and
>>>> quit, and restart the system.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Nocolas and Ioannis
>>>
>>> I burned a cd from the .iso image (32 bit) and when I boot it
>>> I am asked for
>>> language and then given choices, none of which allow me a
>>> command line.
>>>
>>> I can not repartition in manual mode as the partition manager
>>> does not start
>>> (freezes at 39 % loaded).
>>>
>>> Alt + F2 does nothing at the menu screen.
>>
>>
>> If you are using the Live-CD, immediately when you see the Ubuntu
>> graphics at the beginning, press any key, and at the menu that
>> appears, select "Try Ubuntu".
>>
>> It may take a couple of minutes to load Ubuntu from the CD.
>>
>>
>>
> The desktop cd does give me the option of "try ubuntu without
> installing", so that is what I am doing now.
>
> bill
>
>
That worked, but apparently I have other, hardware, problems.  So 
quitting for now.
Thanks for the assistance all.

bill





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