Thanks for the feedback ew - as I mainly only install one distro per machine it never worried me whether I used dos or gpt partitioning, I didn't realise that was the source of my problem. I shall have to be more aware of gpt partitioning in future.

Quote from: Gordon on May 23, 2013, 05:27:37 PM
Hi fatmac,

Thanks for the reply, I have created an LV called vsido which I wanted to install it on but I can't get gparted to see it, also it says quit gparted and it will carry on, I assumed with the install, but all it does is quit so I will have to wait for someone who knows LVM to tell me how to do it or not install it at all which would be a pity as it looks quite nice.

That installer behaviour was what was happening to me, is it possible to mount that LV in a tty & partition it?

I'm new to VSIDO, but I've found out that I had to create the partitions in a tty using fdisk, before the installer would see them. Might work for you, I don't use LVM.

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It was annoying me as well. 

As a bit of feedback to VastOne.
I would like to be able to install without having to need a swap partition.

Not quite sure if this will be relevant to your problem.
Being a first timer to VSIDO, I found problems with the installer.
What I did was open a tty, sudo su to root, run fdisk /dev/sda, deleted all partitions, created a new empty dos partition label, created new partitions, wrote them out to disk, went back to X & re ran the installer, & it worked for me. (May21 64bit)

Good post ew, I quite agree, do your own thing VastOne, others will follow. 

I was having problems with the '15 May', but '21 May' is OK.
Downloaded via downloads page today, & it works this time. (Check the md5sum.)

Music is a personal thing, you lot seem to be on my wavelength, in the main.

Nice to see I'm not the only cyclist on here. 

First experience with 64 bit 21 May build was the same, gparted wouldn't start. Used fdisk in a tty, deleted all partitions, made a new partition table & wrote it out, went back to X, re ran the installer, still wouldn't load gparted. Went back to fdisk in tty, created & wrote partitions to disk, went back to X, re ran the installer, this time gparted started, & the rest went smoothly. Wifi seems a bit iffy at the moment, connection keeps getting reset; I'm writing this from a cable connected desktop (running #!  )
The 32bit d/l again has a different md5sum to yours; will see what happens when I write it to disk. (Edit: Same type of problem as before.)

Edit: D/L 32bit again, but from downloads page, not with wget -c, & this time it runs live OK, except wifi, wants firmware brcm, according to dmesg.
However, it appears to be unsuitable for a 1024x600 netbook screen. (!)

Conclusion = I now have 32 & 64 bit live distros, with a 64 bit installation on a laptop.

Thanks for your efforts, will play with it for a bit, & post afresh if I get any other problems.

Thanks VastOne, I shall d/l the 32bit shortly & try that on my netbook.
Might as well get the 64bit later as well now that there's no OS on the laptop. 

Hi jedi, no uefi on my machines.  When the installer starts, it suggests it can use a previously partitioned drive, but even when I had the partition info written out from fdisk in a tty & went back to X it didn't like it.
I will d/l VastOne's new offerings & see if I can get an install with them.

Had another 3 tries at installing 64bit. No joy. (md5sums are a match)

try1 - didn't go to gparted, went to Exit:Quit Installer, waited 6 mins, hdd activity led flashed every 2 seconds, otherwise, just nothing.

try2 - gparted flashed on screen before getting Exit:Quit Installer, same 2 second flash of hdd led, still nothing after 9 mins.

try3 - went to a tty, sudo su, ran fdisk & wrote partitioning to disk, returned to X & retried to install, gparted flashed on screen, went to Exit:Quit Installer again.

Will wait & download the next releases to try.

Look forward to trying the new .iso's when ready. 

Edit: I didn't wait 3 mins (!!!), might give it another try later.