Re: Installing - partitioning failing
Sorry all. Sent this by mistake to Gary off-list. Forwarding here now for
completeness for the archives.
Lisi
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Subject: Re: Installing - partitioning failing
Date: Saturday 28 July 2012
From: Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
To: Gary <listgj-deb@yahoo.co.uk>
On Saturday 28 July 2012 16:41:57 Gary wrote:
> I have a system with a Windows 7 installation (NTFS) which I'd like to
> keep and use "alongside" Debian. During the installation process I
> reduced the size of the main partition which left a "hole" that the
> installer labelled "unusable". I wasn't sure what to do with that, but
> tried to use LVM to get it to use that as the place where it should
> create a "group" (whatever that is).When I selected it and pressed
I had this error message and struggled with it. The problem turned out to be
that there were 4 primary partitions, so there were no available partitions.
I deleted one of the partitions, recreated it as extended, and then used the
remaining space as another extended partition.
> Return, the system complained. With a bunch of question marks. There
> was no recognisable text at all. After that, the installer can't do
> anything with the partitions - it fails to recognise them, I think,
> and just springs back to the main menu when I try to select that
> option again.
Sorry, can't help with this.
> What have I done wrong? How do I fix it? Why is the installer giving
> me sh1t? :-(
HTH
Lisi
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