| Pelo | ok swat, it was just a bit busy in there and I don'T have the patience tonight | 00:42 |
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| swatTX | it was busy indeed | 00:42 |
| Pelo | swatTX, is there suppose to be anyting on your hdd or is it supposed to be clean | 00:42 |
| swatTX | Pelo, there is suppose to be something there but I'm assuimng (since GParted showed all unallocated) everything was lost somehow. | 00:43 |
| Pelo | swatTX, what was supposed to be there ? | 00:43 |
| swatTX | Pelo, my previous install | 00:44 |
| Pelo | swatTX, of ? | 00:44 |
| swatTX | Pelo, Ubuntu gusty gibbon | 00:44 |
| Pelo | swatTX, was that one a fresh install that went wrong or one that you had used a while with important data ? | 00:45 |
| swatTX | Pelo, I've had it for about a month nothing too important which is why i was gonna just fresh install again but am getting errors now | 00:46 |
| Pelo | ok | 00:46 |
| Pelo | go back to the live cd desktop , we are not going to do this from the installer | 00:46 |
| swatTX | Pelo, ok just exited the installer and am sitting at the live cd desktop | 00:47 |
| Pelo | ok | 00:47 |
| Pelo | open the gnome partiton editor from the admin menu | 00:47 |
| swatTX | ok GParted is loaded | 00:47 |
| Pelo | will there be anyting else on that hdd or just gutsy ? | 00:48 |
| swatTX | just gutsy | 00:48 |
| Pelo | ok now for that next bit you will need to fiigure it out on your own cause I don'T have gparted installed, and I can't check, it's in french anyway so the translation migth be off | 00:48 |
| swatTX | ok | 00:49 |
| Pelo | check in the gparted menues for make a new lable or something similar | 00:49 |
| Pelo | label | 00:49 |
| swatTX | Partition -> New ? | 00:49 |
| Pelo | swatTX, not , new label, we are starting from the very very bottom | 00:50 |
| swatTX | there is also set disklabel | 00:50 |
| Pelo | thats, the one | 00:50 |
| Pelo | msdos or something similar | 00:50 |
| Pelo | that will basicaly revirginise your hdd | 00:50 |
| swatTX | wow, 'Error while setting new disklabel' | 00:51 |
| Pelo | swatTX, interesting | 00:51 |
| Pelo | swatTX, ok there is the possibility that there is someting wrong with your hdd | 00:52 |
| Pelo | swatTX, how old is it ? | 00:52 |
| swatTX | Pelo, a few years. | 00:52 |
| swatTX | Pelo, now there's a crash report detected | 00:52 |
| Pelo | swatTX, well assuming it is less the 5 this shouldn'T happen | 00:52 |
| Pelo | swatTX,can you read the report ? | 00:53 |
| swatTX | Pelo, it was from GParted crashing... it's just asking me if i wanna restart the program | 00:53 |
| Pelo | swatTX, do this, shut down the computer, wait a couple of minutes , boot the live cd back up and come back here | 00:53 |
| swatTX | Pelo, ok | 00:54 |
| Pelo | I'll wait for you | 00:54 |
| swatTX | Pelo, shutting down now. thanks btw | 00:54 |
| Pelo | np | 00:54 |
| Pelo | swatTX, is this another pc you are installing on ? | 00:55 |
| swatTX | Pelo, yea an old laptop | 00:56 |
| Pelo | ah, this explains why you can shut down and not leave | 00:56 |
| swatTX | Pelo, seems like whenever i try to install anything from the default i always endup at that initramfs screen | 00:56 |
| * Pelo needs to get himself one of them old laptops | 00:57 | |
| swatTX | Pelo, (booting back up now to the live CD) | 00:57 |
| Pelo | swatTX, beleive it or not , I am not 1337 enough to know what an initramfs is | 00:57 |
| * Pelo just figured out what init RAM File system means | 00:58 | |
| swatTX | Pelo, me either... from what i can tell it's a shell that you get dropped into when something system critical is wrong.. i can just never get around it and usually end up doing a fresh install | 00:58 |
| Pelo | swatTX, when you get to the desktop go straight in to gparted, no messing with the installer | 00:58 |
| swatTX | Pelo, gotcha | 00:58 |
| Pelo | swatTX, have you considered using the alternate install cd, it is text based and is usualy easier on system resources during the install | 00:59 |
| swatTX | Pelo, I'm not sure i have a problem with system resources.. everything works great default. I haven't tried the alternate install cd though. | 01:00 |
| Pelo | the live cd uses part of the RAM as a virtual drive so it can run the lice cd desktop , it's a bit more demanding, it's also fussier about hardware for some reason | 01:01 |
| Pelo | anyway, are you in gparted yet ? | 01:01 |
| swatTX | it's loading GParted now. just try the disklabel again? | 01:01 |
| Pelo | not quite yet | 01:02 |
| Pelo | anyting showing on the hdd ? | 01:02 |
| Pelo | any partions or stuff ? | 01:02 |
| swatTX | nope. still 74.56GiB unallocated | 01:02 |
| Pelo | ok disklabel then | 01:02 |
| Pelo | you'll need to pick the msdos thingy in disklable when asked | 01:03 |
| swatTX | GParted crashed again | 01:05 |
| Pelo | hmmm | 01:05 |
| Pelo | ok restart gparted, and go straight to making a new partiton 5-10 gig ext3 for / | 01:06 |
| Pelo | and apply right away | 01:06 |
| swatTX | not sure what's going on. i went to Partition -> New and it took me to the disklabel screen again and then crashed | 01:07 |
| Pelo | ok restart the comp and head into the bios, see if you have the option to low format your hdd anywhre in there | 01:08 |
| swatTX | restarting now | 01:09 |
| swatTX | in BIOS but dont see any formating options | 01:09 |
| Pelo | ok here is what I can suggest at this point | 01:10 |
| Pelo | you can try getting the gparted live cd online and boot from that , see if you can partition your hdd properly from that , | 01:10 |
| Pelo | or you can take yoru comp in to have it check by a pro | 01:10 |
| Pelo | there isn't anything more that I know to do to help you out online | 01:11 |
| swatTX | thanks for trying.... | 01:11 |
| swatTX | its probably a bad HD | 01:11 |
| * Pelo feels like a failuer | 01:11 | |
| Pelo | that would be my guess | 01:12 |
| Pelo | best of luck , I'm heading off, work early tomorry | 01:12 |
| Pelo | tomorrow | 01:12 |
| Pelo | damit | 01:12 |
| Pelo | g'night | 01:12 |
| swatTX | g'night. thanks again | 01:12 |
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