Out of Space

[Colin Law]

On 8 August 2016 at 17:16, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2016 05:27:29 Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 8 August 2016 at 10:20, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>> > ...
>> > With todays installers, how can you make it use an already prepared,
>> > labeled and formatted disk? Thats a trick I have never seen done.
>>
>> When asked where to install select "Something Else" then you can
>> choose what you want with each partition.  If you leave the Format
>> checkbox unticked it will not format that partition.
>
> But it still refuses to recognize a prepared disk, and you are still
> forced to rewrite the parttition table, and may wind up with /boot being
> 850 gigs into the terabyte disk, and out of reach of the machines bios
> to reboot to at the end of the install.
>
>> Colin
>
> I have done that Colin, every ubuntu install I have ever done starting
> with 6-04 LTS. And become stuck in a loop, which it would not let me out
> of until I gave up, restarted, and let it do as it pleased on the 4th or
> 5th try. I have prepared a new disk with gparted, and the *buntu
> installer can't see it as anything but an unformatted, unpartitioned
> drive.

Well that is very odd, I have done it many times with no problems. In
fact I did it yesterday.
Are you able to replicate this and then let us examine what is going
on?  I can only imagine there is something unusual about the way you
are partitioning, but what that might be I have no idea.  The only way
to find out is for you to get to that situation so it can be analysed.

>
> IMNSHO thats BS, and the *buntu installer therefore is broken. So when
> linuxcnc migrated to wheezy, that installer at least let me partition it
> the way I wanted it. So all 4 machines in my home network are running
> debian wheezy, very happily I might add.

I think it is rather rude of you to say that what I have seen is BS.
As I said, I have done it many times with no problems.  The solution
is not for us to get into a slanging match but for you to get to a
state where you can demonstrate this so we can isolate where the bug
in Ubiquity is.

Colin