On Tue, 30 May 2006 12:17:29 +0200, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> I Just tried to install 6.06 on my notebook, which had
two partitions when
> I started: a Windows NTFS-partition of 72 GB with about
62 GB free, and a
> FAT32-partition (probably for recovery) of 1.9 GB.
>
> When I got to the partitioner, I selected to edit the
partitions manually:
> - Resize the Windows-partition to 15 GB (which would
leave about 5 GB free
> on that partition)
> - Use the free space for an ext3-partition of about 58
GB
>
> Then I waited... GParted was happily squeezing the air
out of Windows'
> lungs, and everything seemed to go just fine.
> But after a while, X server suddenly restarted. Or at
least, that's what
> it looked like. The screen went blank, switched to
text-mode, and after a
> while I got the GNOME startup-sequence again (panel,
window-manager etc).
> Linux did _not_ restart completely, it was just X and
everything in it
> AFAIK.
>
> I restarted the installer (which had remembered my
localisation- and
> usersettings) and got to the manual partitioning again.
The
> Windows-partition was still reported as being 72 GB,
but the used space
> went from 10GB to 67 GB.
>
> I decided to reboot into Windows, and see what had
happened to all my free
> space. After the partition-check, Windows booted, I
opened explorer and...
> saw a partition of 15 GB!
>
> So now, I have Windows reporting 15 GB with 5 GB free,
and GParted
> reporting 72 GB, also with 5 GB free. How can I solve
this problem?
There have been many problems with the way GParted is run
inside the
Dapper liveCD installer. My advice is to do the partitioning
and the
formatting with a filesystem (need not be ext3, I use jfs)
manually
(with cfdisk, mkfs (mkswap)) when booted in any reliable
Linux liveCD (I
use Knoppix). After rebooting the Dapper liveCD and starting
the
installer, choose Manual editing of the partition table, but
just accept
what you've done earlier (Forward), then assign the mount
points AND
check the reformat boxes. Dapper then installs OK from there
on, at least
it did for me.
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