Just had this thought. Fire up gparted in ubuntu while still in trial mode and create whtever partitions you need. Then proceed with intallation On 5 March 2015 12:53:05 am AEDT, Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
On 04.03.15 23:41, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On 4/03/2015 20:12, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Downloaded ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, and burnt a CD.
To install on a new hard-drive, selected "Something Else" at the first "Installation type" dialogue.
Don't do that.
I just tried it again, to confirm. It is the only way to gain access to the new drive. Selecting the first option: "Install Ubuntu alongside them" gives a dialogue headed by a single line device selector, showing:
Select drive: SCSI3(0,1,0)(sdc) 40.0 GB ATA WDC WD400JB-00EN
No type of mouseclickery on the RHS menu triangle thingy causes any of the other drives to drop down or replace the existing option on the line - 100% repeatable over many attempts.
That appears to leave no alternative but to use the only alternative offered by the GUI ratrun.
"Something else" should have been labelled "expert mode". Unless you have some prior partitioning knowledge, use one of the guided options.
It's no big deal. The only problem with "Something else" is that I've been unable to make it progress to the next dialogue. It wants a root partition before proceeding, but offers no way to make one.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with "expert mode" - I've used it successfully in the past. (Though admittedly with a younger brain, and with older install software, not crippled by the intervening years of "improvement".)
I've found a bit more info on parted, and might have a bit of a go with that. (But will in the end probably download a more recent Debian, and just install that. When I did that on the laptop, I had MSW blown away, and Debian up in about half an hour of bringing the lappy home.)
Erik
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