Ubuntu Edgy Eft aborts Installation

[Znero]

Hello,

i'm trying to Install Ubuntu Edgy Eft (from alternate Install CD) on my T60 2007-63G.
It loads the tool for partitioning the drive, i enter what i want to be changed, and after i want to go on it displays "loading programm for partitioning" and stops at 50%.

The drive is defragmented, and i also tried to use partition magic, but the problem is always the same.

(If i use Live CD it also stops, but i'm not sure at which point)

[dickeywang]

I'm running Edgy on my T60(2007-66U) while writing this post. I used to use SUSE 10.1 so the re-partition part was done by SUSE, and when I installed Edgy I didn't change the size but only formated the partitions.

PS: I remember once I was trying to use the Edgy alternate CD to shrink the size of the windows partition, but I got some error message and it couldn't do it.

[jsage]

i'm trying to Install Ubuntu Edgy Eft (from alternate Install CD) on my T60 2007-63G

Znero, I've run into this myself with Edgy and the T43p and T60p - I believe it has to do with the Lenovo PATA/SATA implementation.

In any case, what works for me all the time is to use the Edgy alternate CD and the text-based installer. The installation zooms along very quickly in text mode.

FWIW, I've also had the same difficulty with a variety of newer Thinkpads when using the GPartEd boot CD-ROM - which is the same partition editor that is used in Edgy.

hope this helps,
john

[snessiram]

When trying to install xubuntu 6.06 on my R60, I didn't get further then the partition manager when installing, it just didn't seem to do anything to my harddisk.
I then started gparter (gnome partition manager) from the cd, resized my windows partition, restarted and let windows perform a disk check (important! if not done, the windows partition might get corrupted), rebooted the live cd again, started gparted, formatted my linux partitions, started the installer and xubuntu installed just fine .

PS: I did a defragmentation also before resizing etc. although it isn't necessair.