<DIV>Hello Mr Robert,</DIV> <DIV>Thank you for trying to help me. First let me explain that Partition E is sub divided into 3 Partitions, ie E (logical 4gb), LinuxExt3 (5.2GB) and Linux Swap (258 MB) with "partition magic". Then I have started installation of UBUNTU. I am able to proceed upto step 5/6 smoothly. Then nothing happens literally except blinking CD light and CD does rotate. No dialogue boxes, no warnings, no progress bars, no disc activity, moniter doesnt go blank......for hours (I waited patiently...). I got 5 CD's shipped to me by Ubuntu and tried them all without success.</DIV> <DIV>I just do not know how to overcome this problem. Your help will be highly appreciated. thanks "Robert E. Butts" <himco2@sbcglobal.net> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 13:00 +0100, appalaraju kalidindi wrote: > Hello > I got Ubuntu CD shipped by them and tried to install. But I am able to > proceed up to step no. 5/6 where I chose manual editing of partitions. > Box shows to allocate disc space. After that nothing happens. I see > that the cd light is blinking and still nothing happens for a long > time. Frustrated, I reboot the system to windows. > I have 256mb ram, 2400AMD and 40gb hard disc with CDEF drives. C has > WinXP and D has Win98. I wanted to install Ubuntu on E by partitioning > with "Partition Magic" and provided sufficent space as recommended. > I fail to understand why I am unable to proceed with the installation. > Can somebody help me please. > Thank you in advance > > ______________________________________________________________________ It takes awhile sometimes for partitioning to finish. If there was disk activity, the installer might still have been working. Your problem might also be a hardware issue, specifically, GParted can't read your drive. I've had this problem with other versions of Linux using Qtparted. One suggestion you might try is to delete the E drive you just created - I am assuming it is blank because that's where Ubuntu was going to be installed. At the partitioning step, choose Automatic, and let Ubuntu install into the unallocated space. If you are going to manually partition, it would help to know a bit more about your hard drive, and to have a bit more information than "nothing happens" .. Does the monitor go black? If not, is there a progress bar on screen? Are there any errors or warning messages that appear? Can you see the GParted window? Is your disk activity light (not the CD light) blinking? When you created the drive with Partition Magic, did you create a swap file as well? What kind of filesystem: ext2, ext3, or Reiser? -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1></hr> Find out what India is talking about on <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Answers India.</a>