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   From: "Tom Muller"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: 6.10 on USB harddisk @ AMD-laptop installation aborting at 15%?!   
   Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:14:02 +0100   
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   > 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.   
      
   Any hints?    
      
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