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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sounds to me like the hard disk drive is
crapping out. It works for a minute (the first scan) then dies during the
second scan. I would take a Win98 boot disk and FDISK the drive, delete all
partitions and then boot the Ubuntu Install disk. It might just be a corrupted
MBR and if so that should allow Ubuntu to install.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Robert Aldridge<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 23, 2006
2:45 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Problems partitioning
during install</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This probably isn't an Ubuntu-specific issue, but thought I'd start
here to see if someone could help...<br>
<br>
My mom's Windows 98 PC is hosed, so I offered to put Ubuntu on it for
her. She mainly has the computer so the grandchildren can play simple
games on it (No latest/greatest accelerated 3D stuff. Just fun, simple
games for the kids.) So, I take an Ubuntu 5.10 install CD and boot from
it. When it gets to the point where it should bring up the
"Partition Disks" screen, it seems to be detecting disks and the
progress meter goes to 100%, then the same screen repeats but this time the
progress meter only goes to 52% where it hangs. I tried multiple times
but couldn't get past this. This is a stand-alone box that isn't
connected to any network. Does the installer need to pull something from
the network to get the partitioner to work? I couldn't imagine it having
this limitation, but am tempted to take the PC back to my place and plug it in
to my router during the install.<br>
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Any suggestions will be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Robert<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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