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Try a bigger drive, 10G is to small!

Thanks for the information.  I checked with the documentation, and the page at http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Hardware says:

Your machines' hard drive(s) should be at least 4GB (to install the OS) plus as much as you want for media storage

so I had discounted that possibility.

I know 10GB isn't much for a media center: I'm planning to use the separate 250GB drive for storage.  Does the DVD all-at-once installer assume that everything will go onto a single drive?

Anyway, I'll revert to plan B and install Kubuntu first and then add LinuxMCE.

cheers

Chris

Update: I've tried the Beta4 DVD -- same problem.

And I tried creating a suitable /dev/sda1 partition first, but that didn't help either.

Can anyone suggest what to try next?

cheers

Chris

Hmmm... it could it be an indication that your /dev/sda1 partition is too small.

There is no /dev/sda1 partition yet -- the installer is supposed to be creating one, isn't it?

This is on an 'empty' PC -- I understood that the LinuxMCE installation DVD would install a copy of Kubuntu specially adapted for and including all the LinuxMCE bits.

I also understand that the combined Kubuntu/LinuxMCE DVD is still in beta: would it be better to install Kubuntu first and then add LinuxMCE?

Additional note: I'm using LinuxMCE-DVD-0710Beta3-i386.iso.  Would Beta4 fix this problem?

regards

Chris

Hello LinuxMCE people

I've just tried to install LinuxMCE for the first time, and got stuck right at the beginning.

This is what's on the screen:

Hard drives in the system:
1. /dev/sda (WDC WD100BB ....  10.0GB)    [ this is a pata drive ]
2. /dev/sdb (ST3250620NS ... 250.0GB)     [ this one is sata ]
Choose which drive to install the system on: 1
Chosen hdd: /dev/sda
Error: The location -12GB is outside of the device /dev/sda.
Error: Partition doesn't exist
Error: The location -12GB is outside of the device /dev/sda.
Error: Expecting a partition type.
Error: Expecting a partition type.
mke2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
Could not stat /dev/sda1 - No such file or directory
The device apparently does not exist: did you specify it correctly?

If I switch to a console via Alt-F2 at this point, I can do 'sudo parted /dev/sda' and create partitions with no problems. 
But the install script will go no further.

This is from a LinuxMCE/Kubuntu 7.10 that I downloaded from linuxmce.org a few days ago.

I tried deleting the previous partitions from /dev/sda first, but that didn't make any difference.

Any suggestions?

regards

Chris