Trouble with Ubuntu installation on USB HD
I am attempting to install ubuntu 6.06 to my external HD, and when I chose to install it on the hard drive it begins and thens says there is an error in creating the file system and then begins to detect file systems and does not go any further than that. Any idea what the problem is?
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Welcome to LQ. Do you have available, unallocated space on your external drive into which you can install Linux? In other words, if your external drive is 80G, and it contains an 80G NTFS partition, there's no place to put Linux. Even if you only have 10G of data in that 80G partition, all of it has already been allocated.
It would be helpful for you to post the output of the following command, which will list your existing partitions (be sure the external drive is connected) Code:
fdisk -l |
thanks, I am very new to linux. where would I post that output? And if it was allocated to an NTFS partition, do I do a manual partition then?
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The "fdisk -l" command will just list some basic info about your hard drives. Example, using my PC
Code:
# fdisk -l |
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