(Also posted to: http://askubuntu.com/questions/40139...-fresh-install )
I have seen a few other people with this issue, but they have an existing install that they can drop into to fix it. I don't!
So, I am trying to install Xubuntu 13.10 using a live USB, and in doing so I have intentionally formatted the installation partitions (all my data is safely floating in the sky). Everything seems to work until right at the very end I get the message:
The only thing I can think of is that some partition somewhere isn't big enough... I have:
Any advice at all would be welcome as at the moment I have a totally unbootable system following the attempted install. Booting to GUI hangs at the splash screen. Trying Ctrl + Alt + F1 from there does NOT give a login prompt. Booting into recovery and dropping to root shell leaves me with no partitions other than sda7 and sda5 mounted, all the other partitions refuse to mount!
If I attempt to mount, for example sda2 then:
I have seen a few other people with this issue, but they have an existing install that they can drop into to fix it. I don't!
So, I am trying to install Xubuntu 13.10 using a live USB, and in doing so I have intentionally formatted the installation partitions (all my data is safely floating in the sky). Everything seems to work until right at the very end I get the message:
Code:
Error removing initramfs-tools:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1Code:
sda1 /swap 512MB
sda2 /boot 56MB
sda3 /home 32GB
sda5 /var 4GB
sda6 /opt 4GB
sda7 / 31GBIf I attempt to mount, for example sda2 then:
Code:
# mount -t ext4 /dev/sda2 /boot
mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /opt busy