Vaughn Treude wrote: > Hello everyone: > I recall a lot of folks raving about Ubuntu, so I decided that the next > time I installed Linux I'd try that. I got a new Abit motherboard to > replace the troublesome Soyo MB in one of my towers, and I've got that > installed and ready to go. The Ubuntu install starts off well. I > configured the network manually because I have static IP's on my > network. I then configured the partitions manually because there are > two existing partitions I want to reformat and use for root and home. > It creates the partitions (type is ext3) and once this is done it has a > blue screen and stops responding. I CAN get to the "Busy Box" console > by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, and can do a few operations there. A "ps" > shows that parted_server, partman and partman.postinst are still running > - perhaps they're not completing for some reason. From here I can do a > shutdown but I don't know how else to proceed. Any suggestions? > > thanks! > Vaughn > > You might try using systemrescuecd and qtparted to create/format the partitions, then reinstall ubuntu and let it use the existing partitions. That's just a guess, as I've no real idea what the problem actually is. -- -Eric 'shubes' "There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and individual purposes." -William E. Simon (1927-2000), Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss