Hi guys,
I'm trying to install ubuntu on a six-month old Lenovo Ideapad U410. Until today I've been using Windows 7, the install that came with the machine from the factory. I have tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10, the 64 bit versions, and both give me the same error, which is when I get to partitioning, no drive shows up. If I continue, I get a generic error about Ubiquity.
The ideapad doesn't have an optical drive, so at first I tried to install 12.10 from USB, and when it didn't work, I tried 12.04 from a usb stick. Then I downloaded a completely fresh copy and burned a cd and tried to install using an external usb-connected cd drive. In all cases I got the same error.
I went in and formatted the drive from the live CD (which boots up just fine, and is how I'm communicating now), using gparted. Then I rebooted and tried again. Same error. I booted into gparted, and pulled out the cd cable and plugged in the USB stick. It gave me the option to install on the USB stick. I cancelled out of the install and went into gparted, and it shows two partitions sda1, which looks like the usb media (8 gb) and unallocated, which it shows as only 21.82 GB (I have a 1 TB hdd).
I'm feeling vaguely panicky, because I don't have a windows disk (I know, I know), just an "upgrade" disk from my university, which won't work without a previous install of windows (trust me, I tried it). I've installed Ubuntu before on different machines, and every time it went smoothly, so I'm kind of flummoxed. I'm kind of in a time crunch here on finals and...argh. Any ideas on how I can solve this?
I'm trying to install ubuntu on a six-month old Lenovo Ideapad U410. Until today I've been using Windows 7, the install that came with the machine from the factory. I have tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10, the 64 bit versions, and both give me the same error, which is when I get to partitioning, no drive shows up. If I continue, I get a generic error about Ubiquity.
The ideapad doesn't have an optical drive, so at first I tried to install 12.10 from USB, and when it didn't work, I tried 12.04 from a usb stick. Then I downloaded a completely fresh copy and burned a cd and tried to install using an external usb-connected cd drive. In all cases I got the same error.
I went in and formatted the drive from the live CD (which boots up just fine, and is how I'm communicating now), using gparted. Then I rebooted and tried again. Same error. I booted into gparted, and pulled out the cd cable and plugged in the USB stick. It gave me the option to install on the USB stick. I cancelled out of the install and went into gparted, and it shows two partitions sda1, which looks like the usb media (8 gb) and unallocated, which it shows as only 21.82 GB (I have a 1 TB hdd).
I'm feeling vaguely panicky, because I don't have a windows disk (I know, I know), just an "upgrade" disk from my university, which won't work without a previous install of windows (trust me, I tried it). I've installed Ubuntu before on different machines, and every time it went smoothly, so I'm kind of flummoxed. I'm kind of in a time crunch here on finals and...argh. Any ideas on how I can solve this?