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silwalr · 09-12-2007, 12:05 AM

I just partitioned my C drive using Knoppix. Now when I try to install linux, I get to the point where I get the option of Automatic Partition or Manual partition. Regardless which I select, I get this error: "No valid devices found on which to create new file system. Please check your hardware for the clause of this problem." I have no idea how to fix this error.

jay73 · 09-12-2007, 05:52 AM

What is it exactly that you are trying to install? Linux isn't very informative considering the huge range of distros available.

If you have SATA hard drives, there is a good chance that your distro is simply failing to make sense of the hard drive controller. This was a common issue until about half a year ago but it is now something of the past. Just make sure that you use a distribution that was released in the last six months or so (Fedora 7, CentOS5, Debian 4.0, Ubuntu 7.10, PCLinuxOS2007, Mandriva 2007.1, ...).

archtoad6 · 10-26-2007, 02:03 PM

silwalr,
Welcome to LQ.

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Originally Posted by jay73

What is it exactly that you are trying to install? "Linux" isn't very informative considering the huge range of distros available.

[double quotes added to "Linux"]