[GRLUG] trouble formatting Lenovo computer for Ubuntu install

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 17:18 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 17:10 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I've got a new Lenovo ThinkPad x120e.
> > 
> > I tried to install Ubuntu. I chose the "reformat the whole disk" and set
> > up the partitions I wanted (/, /home, and swap). But then when it tried
> > to proceed Ubuntu three times said, 
> > 
> > "The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI (0,0,0)(sda)
> > failed."
> > 
> > Does anyone know why this might be?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> PS--the Win OS is gone--it reports no OS when I start it. 
> I wonder what gparted will show?
> 
PPS:
gparted wouldn't work either. What I was able to pick out of the lines
flashing by:

at one point: 
   unable to open /dev/sr0
   unable to access /block/sr0

later a bunch of "SQUASHFS errors"
   :squashfs-read-data failed to read block 0x403e15e
   :Unable to read fragment cache entry [403e15e]
   :Unable to read page, block 403e15e, size 71b1c

another attempt gave same error messages with different block number

later I got 'user at debian: ~$' prompt

later still something about an i/o error

then later it seems to keep cycling around identifying the USB DVD
drive.



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