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ubuntu on external HD? and why wont easy ubuntu work?
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08-22-06
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ubuntu on external HD? and why wont easy ubuntu work?
i have an old external hd... its like 5-6 gigs... i tried installing the other day.. and it said it couldnt create file system...
__________________also i tried installing/ using easy ubuntu and it failed... some of the packages were messed up... anyone know what this is about?
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Let's look at this logically. OLD External drive? Couldn't create filesystem?
__________________Sounds like a bad hard drive to me..
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Like Christian siad, it may just be a bad drive. I've had this problem also when I went to install on an old machine with a 8.5GB drive and 522mhz AMD k6 II.
Did you only try creating the filesystem formate as Ext3? If so try Ext2. Just because you get that error doesn't always mean the drive is bad. I ended up getting FreeBSD on that machine (Filesystem UFS though(thats a UNIX FS though and not a Linux one)).
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