Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Khristian wrote: Since I managed to solve the issue, I figured I'd tell you guys too :P This is a copy of the message I sent there: Well, I found out the cause of the problem: it seems that my previous install of Ubuntu somehow managed to create a swap partition that overlapped a bit of the begi

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-18 Thread Khristian
Since I managed to solve the issue, I figured I'd tell you guys too :P This is a copy of the message I sent there: Well, I found out the cause of the problem: it seems that my previous install of Ubuntu somehow managed to create a swap partition that overlapped a bit of the beginning of the next p

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Khristian Alexander Schönrock
Adrian Levi escreveu: > 2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock : > >> Adrian Levi escreveu: >> > > >>> This will let you reuse your existing partitions. >>> >>> >> That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it >> doesn't list the existing partitions. The insta

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock : > Adrian Levi escreveu: >> This will let you reuse your existing partitions. >> > That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it > doesn't list the existing partitions. The installer simply defaults to > the screen shown in > [http://img

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Khristian Alexander Schönrock
Adrian Levi escreveu: > What you need to do is select "manually partition the disc" instead of > selecting "automatic partitioning" which is what I think you are > currently selecting, and set the mount points for the partitions, > select format data for all partitions except for your /home (unless

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > (re-sending the e-mail to the list as well, I always forget to hit the > 'reply to all' button :/ ) Standard practice on this list is to reply only to the list unless explicetly requested to cc someone. > Yes, I've installed linux some times before, and what I'm trying to

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Khristian
(re-sending the e-mail to the list as well, I always forget to hit the 'reply to all' button :/ ) Yes, I've installed linux some times before, and what I'm trying to do is wipe the current ubuntu install I have to make a clean lenny install (I have /, /home and swap partitions already made). Insid

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > I'm trying to install lenny amd64 here, but the installer doesn't > recognize my hard disk as already partitioned when I choose the manual > partitioning (it simply shows an unpartitioned 250GB disk). I tried > going through the graphical and text installers (both normal and