Ubuntu 12.10 Installation Hangs at 'Preparing to Install Ubuntu'

Question

While Integrating LESS CSS, I encountered with some conditional comments in CSS like

[if IE 7] margin-top: -2px;
[if IE 8] margin-top: -3px;
[if Webkit] margin-top: -1px;

And of course they cannot be compiled to CSS by LESS compiler,

So for IE I found a way to avoid conditional comment and make them work, as mentioned IN THIS ARTICLE

But, there seems to be no way for [IF Webkit], rather than detecting webkit through JS and adding a class.

Can any body please hep me on this ?

Solution 1

According to here:

Update to this......I just tested it again. Tried to reinstall 12.10 over 12.10 and failed. Put in Debian....let it wipe the drive, create partitions, then killed the install. Then a fresh install of 12.10......and in it went.

So it seems to be if you have a clean drive or a failed install to be written to, there's no problem.

No idea why....that just seems to be the way it is.

This seems like a partition cleaning bug, since you can clearly install it on a clean drive or over an installation that failed.

Solution 2

Well, I had the same issue. The way I resolved it was starting up with the live CD and then got into the disk management app, and just format the drive from there. In the option of which file system, I checked the linux file system option. And the installation went very nice.

Thanks a lot!

Solution 3

If you have multiple HDDs and dozens of bootable operating systems,as I have, this is a real problem.

I cannot install 12.04 from CD because it just hangs. There are plenty of clean volumes and previously installed versions, but the installer simply cannot resolve my drives and just hangs. (I have over 3TB of HDD space divided into logical volumes)

The only way to do it is to install 10.04 and then upgrade it to 12.04

Black mark for Ubuntu, by some sort of assumption that all users will be installing to a desktop with just Windoze installed or a previous linux version on a single small HDD, they have completely screwed up what should and used to be, a simple process.

Try installing to a completely virgin HDD and you will get a similar problem, the partitioner does not recognise it until you run fdisk and do rudimentary partitioning.

Solution 4

I observed the same issue on ubuntu 13.04.

I was able to work-around the issue by mounting the partitions not needed by the installer.

Solution 5

Delete the partitions and make new ones from GParted. That worked for me.

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Comments

[cHao]

Those [if...] bits are not valid CSS. If they work at all in a .css file, i'd be a bit surprised.

[Suvi Vignarajah]

Conditional comments only work for IE (to be exact IE 5 to 9), there is no way other browsers will render the logic inside conditional comments. Other browsers just see those simply as comments.

[Cage]

Thanks Evandro, I will pop in a clean drive and see how I fair. I'll report back soon.

[Cage]

You were correct Evandro. The installation progressed without problems on a clean drive. I put my original drive back in and this time booted to windows and removed the Linux partition (which was on an Extended partition). When I booted from the 12.10 live-usb again the installation progressed past the dreaded 'Preparing to install Ubuntu' screen. Many thanks for your superfast and reply

[Eliah Kagan]

I recommend editing this answer to explain how to do that.

[Eliah Kagan]

Can you provide more details about what you did and how you did it?

[Saurabh Bayani]

Ya ! I have done this already... by referring document I mentioned above, but it seems to e working for IE only. Is there any way for [IF webkit]

[Lucky Soni]

I am not sure if there is a conditional tag for webkit (just google it) but i highly recommend feature detection. check updated answer.

[Benedikt]

What is the "linux file system option"?

[eebbesen]

This worked for me on 14.x

[Ram]

I had this problem on Ubuntu 16. I booted into live mode (had to wait a weird amount of time while it asked for a login and was unresponsive), then used gparted to clean up an old fedora install (I also have windows 10 on my system), and now the install is going as planned.