Re: Ubuntu install problem

Vaughn Treude wrote:

> Hello everyone:
> I recall a lot of folks raving about Ubuntu, so I decided that the next
> time I installed Linux I'd try that. I got a new Abit motherboard to
> replace the troublesome Soyo MB in one of my towers, and I've got that
> installed and ready to go. The Ubuntu install starts off well. I
> configured the network manually because I have static IP's on my
> network. I then configured the partitions manually because there are
> two existing partitions I want to reformat and use for root and home.
> It creates the partitions (type is ext3) and once this is done it has a
> blue screen and stops responding. I CAN get to the "Busy Box" console
> by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, and can do a few operations there. A "ps"
> shows that parted_server, partman and partman.postinst are still running
> - perhaps they're not completing for some reason. From here I can do a
> shutdown but I don't know how else to proceed. Any suggestions?
>
> thanks!
> Vaughn
>
>
You might try using systemrescuecd and qtparted to create/format the
partitions, then reinstall ubuntu and let it use the existing
partitions. That's just a guess, as I've no real idea what the problem
actually is.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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