[wplug] Newbie needs install help after grub 17 error

[Ryan Moszynski]

you've probably seen this 24 page thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945

and this one on the gentoo forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120802


are you doing the default ubuntu install and allowing it to format
your entire disc for you?
that would simplify things.  or, if you have some partitioning scheme
in mind, try setting your
partitions up with gparted off of the systemrescuecd mini-livecd.
I've found ubuntu's
installation partitioning tool to be pretty wonky.

when you boot the live cd, can ubuntu mount the existing partitions of
your hard drive?



On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Claudia Neely <welshspeaker at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was all over Ubuntu forums trying to fix a grub error 17. I cfdisk'ed and
> fdisked all over the place.  I deleted partitions and tried to rewrite them
> as forums directed.  Nothing worked. I gave up.
>
> Now I am trying to reinstall.  I have edgy eft, feisty fawn and gutsy; none
> are installing.
>
> In edgy eft rescue mode I get this message over and over:
>
> Failed to create a swap space.  The creation of swap space in partition #5
> of IDE1 master (hda) failed.
>
> I only have Ubuntu on the laptop, no dual boot, and I didn't manually
> partition the disk.  It is a toshiba tecra S1 laptop, and runs all three
> ubuntus off the live disks fine.
>
> Help?
>
> claudia
>
>
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