Draklive will not start

[Was_Just19]

run fdisk with root privileges  .......  open terminal

su <enter>

[enter your root password]  <enter>

then

fdisk  -l   <enter>




Hope that helps.

[daveysprocketbrew]

Ok.  Here is my output:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x323e3c8a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1568    12594928+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1569        4865    26483152+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            1569        1944     3020188+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            1945        4865    23462901   83  Linux

[Was_Just19]

The fdisk output looks OK.
BTW I noticed you failed to use fsck ......  that too should be run as root.

Using PCC (Configure your computer) - Local Disks        can you see the partitions?; can you click on each to get information about them displayed etc?

If yes, after doing this try launching the installer from a terminal

draklive-install  <enter>

The terminal may contain information about why it stops, if it does.


I did not notice the details of your PC ........  might be useful to know CPU & RAM and so on.

regards.

[daveysprocketbrew]

There appears to be a problem:

/media/ user
Backtrace has 11 calls on stack:
  11: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x29) [0xb7264b29]
  10: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb7299cd5]
  9: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729ab47]
  8: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729bf2a]
  7: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb72694be]
  6: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x271) [0xb726ce11]
  5: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729d851]
  4: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729da6e]
  3: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x79) [0xb726dc49]
  2: /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so(XS_c__stuff_get_disk_type+0x1e6) [0xb72fdb91]
  1: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_pp_entersub+0x56e) [0xb76e61ee]
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug report to bug-parted@gnu.org containing at least the version (2.2) and the following message:  Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:659 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Aborted

[daveysprocketbrew]

Since this is apparently a general installation problem, I'm continuing this here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,73148.msg601450.html#msg601450