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Installation issues / Re: parted error on installation

« on: March 10, 2008, 07:11:26 pm »

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

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Installation issues / Re: parted error on installation

« on: March 10, 2008, 12:26:31 pm »

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

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Installation issues / Re: parted error on installation

« on: March 09, 2008, 11:16:25 pm »

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

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Installation issues / parted error on installation

« on: March 09, 2008, 08:39:04 pm »

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