Re: Installation Woes7.10 on a spare 500 GB drive and it a

Gerald Dachs wrote:
Am Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:10 +0000
schrieb Bernard Peek <bernard.peek@xxxxxxxxx>:


Keith Clark wrote:

I am trying to install Ubuntu and it always fails saying that the
formatting has failed. Any ideas?



I had a similar problem some years ago with a RedHat distro. The
fdisk program consistently segfaulted, I eventually found out by
looking at a different console. I never did find a fix.


This is very helpful :(. I could imagine dozens of reasons for his
problem. The chance that a bug from an old fdisk from RedHat has
survived years and made it into Ubuntu is rather small.
This info may lead only in a wrong direction.



The bug didn't even survive until the next RedHat distro. But another
bug that causes a segfault would produce the same symptoms. It's easy
enough to check whether fdisk is failing during the installation. It's a
relatively simple way of getting more information about the problem. The
symptoms that OP report are consistent with this type of problem.

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