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I'm trying to get Ubuntu installed on my hard drive. I currently have four partitions on my hard drive: first is for vista, second is for all things I'll be using on vista, third is for linux and all things I'm going to use with linux, and the fourth is a small one for linux swapping.

I have successfully gotten vista 64bit up and running on the first partition, along with all the things I want to use on vista installed and setup on the second partition. But Ubuntu doesn't want to cooperate so much. I've tried both 32 bit and 64bit for the hell of it. I'll clue you in on what's happened.

I've tried installing it from the CD with the regular and graphical installs. Both times I end up at a menu with five options. The first is help with partitioning, the second and third are blank for some reason, the fourth is undo changes to partition, and the fifth is continue and when I do that it does nothing.

Next I tried the option for trying ubuntu without making changes to my hard drive, and ran the install on there for shits and giggles. The same issue happens. I get to the partition step (4/7) and the box that is supposed to contain partitions is left blank.

My friend has been trying to help me out with the issue. He' shad me do commands to try and see if Ubuntu can even detect my hard drive. Apparently it's recognized it as being ATA 3 (my IDE port is ATA 1 and my FDD port is ATA 3) and it's told me the transfer rate of my hard drive, so it has to at least know that it exists.

Does anyone have a clue as to what is causing this and how to fix this?
 
Heading to bed in a few, so sorry for Posting and running, but let's see...

What version of Ubuntu are you using? Also, where did you DL it from and what speed did you burn it to the CD at? Generally, the lower the speed burned, the less likelyhood of errors.

Both times I end up at a menu with five options.
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Meaning the Partition screen itself that gives you the Partitioning options. On some systems, the Live CD is (or was as of 7.04, not sure if the issue was fixed for 7.10 or 8.04) buggy when it came time to partition. My advice would be to try the Alternate Install. It's text-based, but completely self-explanatory and very easy to use. Every time I had an issue with the Live CD, the Alt Install worked like a charm.
 
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04. I downloaded it from http://www.ubuntu.com and I burned it with deepburner at 16x. I don't think there were any errors because I also tried the 32 bit burned at that speed and the same thing just occurred.

I think I'll check both of the CD's for defects, and if there are none I'll try the alternative install.
 
using the live cd go to the 3rd tab ont he top left (its like, programs, places, system or something) then on the tab, the drop down menu will include a few options, choose administration (or similiar) then go to GParted , or Partition Editor (same thing, but i can't recall what they have the shortcut dubbed)
It should recognize your disk, then show it's partitions. recognize the partition you want to isntall ubuntu on, and right click it, then format it to EXT3. then when it's done go to the installer, and it should, if recognized and formatted in Gparted, give you the option to use it. sometimes the installer has issues with recognizing unformatted partitions. make sure to right click the partition to install on and choose to mount it at "/" (without the " ")... and check to format it again.
 
I ran the option to find errors on both discs, and it found nothing.

I think I'll try Mr. Johanssen's way before I use up a CD with the text installer.

By the way. Do I have to do anything with the swap partition?
 
nope. make sure when it shows you the partitions (on the installer) to check that the partition for swap is formatted to Linux Swap. other than that it should wokr.
 
That gparted menu didn't show any partitions.

I tried the text install, and I think I figured out why the others didn't work. It asked me to select a driver, and I thought it meant a driver like a graphics card one, but for a hard drive. But this time I just kept selecting them until I found one that worked. I don't remember which one it was, but it said it couldn't detect the geometry of the disk, and that partitioning it might not work or something. Well it showed me a list of partitions, but it had like 8 different things. The partitions were labeled weird. They were like freenodenmv or something with freenode and was followed by a number.

I'm really confused on this and don't know what to do at this point o_o
 
I have a seagate 250GB SATA hard drive at 3gbps transfer rate.

Also, my friend told me I might have been looking at things from the disk.

I wrote down all of the drivers it gave me an option to choose

3x-9xxx, 3w-xxxx, BusLogic, DAC960, a100u2w, aacraid, advansys, aec62xx, aic62xx, aic79xx, aic7xxx, aic94xx, alim15x3, aoe, arcmsr, aten, atiixp, atp870u, bpck, cciss, ch, cmd64x, comm, cpqarray, cryptoloop, cs5530, cy82c693, dc395x, dmx3191d, dstr, eata, epat, epia, fdomain, fdomain_cs, fit2, fit3, floppy, friq, frpw, gdth, htp34x, hpt366, hptiop, i2o_block, i2o_bus, i2o_config, i2o_core, i2o_proc, i20_scsi, ide-cd, ide-core, ide-disk, ide-floppy, ide-generic, ide-scsi, ide-tape, imm, initio, ipr, ips, iscsi_tcp, kbic, ktti, libiscsi, libsas, loop, lpfc, megaraid, megaraid_mbox, megaraid_mm, megaraid_sas, mptbase, mptctl, mptfc, mptlan, mptsas, mptscsih, mptspi, nbd (one that found those partitions), ns67415, on20, on26, opti621, sst, paride, pcd, pd, pdc202xx_old, pf, pg, pktcdvd, ppa, pt, qla1280, qla2xxx, qla4xxx, qlogic_cs, qlogicfas408, raid_class, sc1200, scsi_debug, scsi_mod, scsi_tgt, scsi_transport_fc, scsi_transport_iscsi, scsi_transport_sas, scsi_transport_spi, sd_mod, sg, sr_mod, st, stex, sx8, sym53c500_cs, sym53c8xx, tmscsi, trm290, umem, virtio_blk

Hope that is of some help.
 
I have a seagate 250GB SATA hard drive at 3gbps transfer rate.

Also, my friend told me I might have been looking at things from the disk.

I wrote down all of the drivers it gave me an option to choose

3x-9xxx, 3w-xxxx, BusLogic, DAC960, a100u2w, aacraid, advansys, aec62xx, aic62xx, aic79xx, aic7xxx, aic94xx, alim15x3, aoe, arcmsr, aten, atiixp, atp870u, bpck, cciss, ch, cmd64x, comm, cpqarray, cryptoloop, cs5530, cy82c693, dc395x, dmx3191d, dstr, eata, epat, epia, fdomain, fdomain_cs, fit2, fit3, floppy, friq, frpw, gdth, htp34x, hpt366, hptiop, i2o_block, i2o_bus, i2o_config, i2o_core, i2o_proc, i20_scsi, ide-cd, ide-core, ide-disk, ide-floppy, ide-generic, ide-scsi, ide-tape, imm, initio, ipr, ips, iscsi_tcp, kbic, ktti, libiscsi, libsas, loop, lpfc, megaraid, megaraid_mbox, megaraid_mm, megaraid_sas, mptbase, mptctl, mptfc, mptlan, mptsas, mptscsih, mptspi, nbd (one that found those partitions), ns67415, on20, on26, opti621, sst, paride, pcd, pd, pdc202xx_old, pf, pg, pktcdvd, ppa, pt, qla1280, qla2xxx, qla4xxx, qlogic_cs, qlogicfas408, raid_class, sc1200, scsi_debug, scsi_mod, scsi_tgt, scsi_transport_fc, scsi_transport_iscsi, scsi_transport_sas, scsi_transport_spi, sd_mod, sg, sr_mod, st, stex, sx8, sym53c500_cs, sym53c8xx, tmscsi, trm290, umem, virtio_blk

Hope that is of some help.
 
idk. you shouldn't need drivers for anything. it's the same hard drive i have right now, and ubuntu/kubuntu both install no issues... i'd say try the alt. install, but idk, since it's not even recognizing your drive.
 
My friend said that huge list of drivers I listed were chipset drivers. I haven't gone through the entire list yet, but I've done most. I'll let you know what I find.

I think I might just end up having my dad's friend that's a computer technician come over and try to figure this shit out >_<
 
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