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Hi,
I have installed Arch in another Dell 1500 ( sole boot ) for over a year and am liking it. So I decided to install Arch (2011.05.02) version on my Dell Inspiron 1525 which has Ubuntu (11.04, 2.6.38 kernel) and get the following error during install:
"Setup couldn't detect mounted partitions in /tmp/install. Please set mountpoints first"
My fdisk - reads like below:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe276ad6f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 32 256000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 32 555 4194304 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 555 15029 116266746 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 22864 38914 128919552 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 555 5654 40960000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 5654 7439 14336000 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 7439 8714 10240000 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 8714 11264 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 11264 13813 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 13814 15029 9765625 83 Linux
I plan to install Arch with / on /dev/sda5 , /home on /dev/sda6 & /var on /dev/sda7 . All of these are on the extended partition.
The common data files (music,docs etc ) between Arch & Ubuntu reside on the /dev/sda4 partition.
BTW, all of these were created by the GParted as ext4 except for /boot which I put on /dev/sda1 and the common swap on /dev/sda2
The install proceeds to ask me for the mount points and then it gets the errors.
I have searched the wiki and googled the above error and have drawn a blank as of now.
Any hint to resolving the issue is most welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by sachiarcher (2012-04-06 15:24:14)
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I will try with the new install CD!
no other ideas right now.
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After the post, I tried the install with the newest stable release (2011.08.19) and the issue is resolved and I was able to breeze thru the installation without any issues.
Thanks to everyone that responded.
Can the moderator mark the issue as solved.
Thanks
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You can edit your first post and mark it solved.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309
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