Installing ubuntu
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I have just tried to install ubuntu onto a partition of my hard disk. I told it to install it and to automatically partition the hard disk, and then left if for 3 hours. i came back to it, and the little circle with the arrow was still going round and round. I stopped it in the end as it seemed to be not doing anything. I only have a 40gb hard disk, which has about 25gb free space. Is there any reason why it would take this long to partition and install?
lauross said:
I have just tried to install ubuntu onto a partition of my hard disk. I told it to install it and to automatically partition the hard disk, and then left if for 3 hours. i came back to it, and the little circle with the arrow was still going round and round. I stopped it in the end as it seemed to be not doing anything. I only have a 40gb hard disk, which has about 25gb free space. Is there any reason why it would take this long to partition and install?
Ubuntu not being able to mount/access the drive?
Don't know - for reference, 7.04 formatted my second disk (120Gig) in about 5 minutes...
Any error codes displayed?
Nope, no error codes, just the circle with the arrows going round and round. i don't want to reformat hard disk, as i only have one and can't be bothered with the hassle of backing up all my files, as i don't have an external hard disk or DVD writer. i tried to partition it manually, but i don't really know how to do it, and none of the mounts? seemed to work. i tried / and /urs and /boot and whichever the others are, but it wouldn't allow any of them.
Hmmm....
Hmmm....
The partition manager is rather stupid; then again so's fdisk. If the drive is overly full or fragmented it will struggle to do the resize operation, the fact it can see the disk means it can mount it & read/write to it.
Try it again and if it does the same thing press CTRL+ALT+F1 to get a text only display up, flip through the 5 or 6 screens using doh... ermm... it's either CTRL or ALT + F1 - F6 (F7 should be the graphics display) as I'm pretty sure one of these is used for logging during the install.
If it screws up again then dive in to Windows and run defrag overnight and see about deleting temporary files and such before hand (not needed but a good practise to get in to before defragging).
But yeah, I've never seen it go nuts like that. My laptops 120Gb drive was paritioned & formatted in about 3min... total install time was less than 1 hour (I'd say 30min).
Try it again and if it does the same thing press CTRL+ALT+F1 to get a text only display up, flip through the 5 or 6 screens using doh... ermm... it's either CTRL or ALT + F1 - F6 (F7 should be the graphics display) as I'm pretty sure one of these is used for logging during the install.
If it screws up again then dive in to Windows and run defrag overnight and see about deleting temporary files and such before hand (not needed but a good practise to get in to before defragging).
But yeah, I've never seen it go nuts like that. My laptops 120Gb drive was paritioned & formatted in about 3min... total install time was less than 1 hour (I'd say 30min).
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