Public bug reported: I just tried installing herd 5 using the alternate cd but couldn't get past the partition stage.
My drive has a win ntfs partition, then a fat32 and then I had let the edgy install use the remaing space and it created a swap and /. I deleted these before trying herd 5 so there was just freespace at the end of the drive. At the partitioning stage of the install I got 4 choices, the first was something about a cd? which I didn't understand then three 'guided' options, there was no manual option that I could see. I tried the 'guided use free space' option but it just goes to a red screen with a message about there being no root partition allocated. There are two buttons, continue and go back, IIRC. Clicking either just reloads the red warning screen so I had to restart and abandon install. I checked the md5sum of both the iso and the burnt cd and they were fine. I was trying to install on my laptop (fujitsu-siemens pi1505) that has a sata disk but this wasn't a problem when I installed edgy. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- partitioning fails during install (herd 5 kub alt) https://launchpad.net/bugs/89586 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs