Cannot get past "Prepare Hard Drive(s)"

oksofar · 2010-07-28 18:07:28

I'm installing from the 2010.05-core 64 bit iso into a VirtualBox guest.

All went fine when I partitioned the disk with the Auto-Prepare option. However, I didn't like those partitions, so I created a whole new disk and started again.

I then prepared the partition using the manual option. That seemed to go OK. I created all the partitions, wrote them to disk, and quit.

When I got back to the main menu, "Select Source" was highlighted. I tried to move on to "Select Packages", but I got a message that told me I had to do prepare the hard drive first.

When I went into the Prepare-Drive option, I found that my partitions were all there, and it all looked fine.

But no matter what I did, I couldn't get into the "Select Packages" option. It kept telling me that I had to prepare the drive, even though I had.

I thought of modifying the setup script, but it's not so straight-forward.

What's going on? Can I fix this?

lifeafter2am · 2010-07-28 18:09:26

Just to make ABSOLUTELY sure, after your created your partitions you moved on to the next step and had the installer format the partitions and mount then at the appropriate locations right?

oksofar · 2010-07-28 18:19:25

No I didn't (blush).

thanks for the quick response.

lifeafter2am · 2010-07-28 18:28:46

oksofar wrote:

No I didn't (blush).
thanks for the quick response.

No problem, glad I could help!

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#1 2010-07-28 18:07:28

Cannot get past "Prepare Hard Drive(s)"

#2 2010-07-28 18:09:26

Re: Cannot get past "Prepare Hard Drive(s)"

#3 2010-07-28 18:19:25

Re: Cannot get past "Prepare Hard Drive(s)"

#4 2010-07-28 18:28:46

Re: Cannot get past "Prepare Hard Drive(s)"

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