installation/formatting issues

[ekom]

I have never used Sabayon before and I am pretty new to linux in general. I have installed a few distros to try out and i wanted to give sabayon a shot. However during my installation when I confirm the install it says that there is a major issue with formatting the root partition and I cannot continue and recommends a restart. If i cancel the installation and try again i get a different message at the part of the installation only this time it will say i have a problem with the swap partition and not the root. Not sure if this is clear enough to get any help or not, but any help would be appriciated.

[WarraWarra]

Can not get into live dvd just now , but there is on the desktop a partition manager or even in the install use the manual disk partition option.

What you want to do is have a / or root partition and maybe if you have less than 1gb ram make a swap partition as well.

For root select the / or root partition and create one or delete it if there is not usefull info on there and then create one again and select the options as to format and primary and accept. ( ext3 for / , /boot type partitions )

Same with swap delete and create it.

Once this is done accept and continue with installation then it will format and or create and format them and usually this fixes whatever might be the problem.

Using AUTO for the partitions is okay but then creates ? lvm and other stuff that generally anoyes me and makes my life less fun , not sure for you.

If this still has issues create the partitons manually and then let it format them and restart the computer. Sometimes this helps as well.

Alternatively you can use fdisk as root in terminal / console to create it tha partitons manually or of you think it is hard drive problems use " fsck -y " might also try fsck --help for options but this is fix disk type program and should get any bugs.

Hope this helps.

[ekom]

manual partition is what i originally tried. i deleted and added two partitions one / and one swap. this is where i had the problems. is it possible that using a different partition manager to make the partitions would help at all? to me it seems like its the partitioning thats having the problems

[wolfden]

I always set up my partitions prior to install so when it comes to install, I just have to tell the installer what is what and off it goes on it's marry way.

[ekom]

thanks for the help guys. by partitioning before installing rather than partitioning during the setup the instalation was succesfull.

[john007]

wolfden, you create your partitions before you install. but do you format them as well, as you are forced to do by qtparted? the problem i have found is that some distros require free space and do their own formatting.