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   Subject: Re: 6.10 on USB harddisk @ AMD-laptop installation aborting at 15%?!   
   From: SINNER    
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   Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:51:55 GMT   
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   * Tom Muller wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
      
   >> I am trying to install "Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop AMD64" on a USB harddisk    
   >> attached to my laptop but it is not working out.   
   >> I am instructing Ubuntu to take the whole USB drive (2,5", 60GB   
   >> 7200U/min IBM) and to partition it as it desires, but after   
   >> completing 15% of the ext3 filesystem of the "/" partition, Ubuntu   
   >> aborts saying that it can't create the filesystem correctly.   
   >> I tried the installation 2 times, but each time the same error   
   >> occured at exactly the same point.   
   >    
   > Now I have tried it with another harddisk, 3,5" USB, but the same   
   > result: After 15% Ubuntu says: Can't create Ext3 Filesystem" and   
   > aborts.    
   >    
      
   Try partioning the disk BEFORE the install using the gparted live CD:   
      
   http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php   
      
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   David   
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