Problem installing 19.10

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Colin,

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 11:53, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I downloaded the Ubuntu 19.10 desktop image (sha sum checked) and
> burnt to an SD card (16GB).  On booting into it I ran the Check Disk
> option first, then Run Ubuntu and all seemed ok.  I selected Install
> Ubuntu and at the What do you want to do dialog I selected Something
> Else then selected the 40GB partition that I had already formatted as
> ext4 (using gparted in a working Ubuntu 19.04 partition) and told it
> to mount it as '/' and not to format, then told it to continue.
> At this point it hangs with the wheel spinning.   I left it for an
> hour but it was still spinning. I burnt the image to a different SD
> card and tried again with the same result.  It also hangs if I select
> the partition as '/' and tell it to format it.
> Any suggestions as to what I can try?
>

I installed 19.10, also using "something else" as an option. However, I
deleted all the previous two partitions and installed onto two new
partitions, one as /boot and the other as / and had no problems. Could the
problem be that you are not formatting your / partition? What is on it
already?

HTH,


Ian
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