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    #16
    so just to see for my self I DL'ed the Kubuntu-12.10-i386.ISO last night ,
    today made a live USB with the usb-startup disk creator in my 12.04 install

    the HD in my laptop looks like this
    vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$ sudo parted -l[sudo] password for vinny:
    Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-6 (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
    Partition Table: msdos


    Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
    1 32.3kB 4195MB 4195MB primary linux-swap(v1)
    2 4195MB 26.0GB 21.8GB primary ext4 boot
    3 26.0GB 237GB 210GB primary ext4
    4 237GB 500GB 264GB extended
    5 237GB 268GB 31.6GB logical ext3
    6 268GB 300GB 32.0GB logical ext4
    7 300GB 500GB 200GB logical ext4

    sda2-is Kubuntu-12.04-x86_64's / root
    sda3-is Kubuntu-12.04_/home
    sda5-is the new Kubuntu-12.10-i386 , was my Ubuntu-12.04-x86_64
    sda6-backtrack-5 , or a testing partition
    sda7-storage used by all installes

    swap was active during install and as we see their are lots of partitions .
    at the prepare disk part of the installation I chose manual , clicked the sda5 and then change , told it to use as ext3 and / for the mount point and to format it .
    at the bottom of the partition window I set sda5 for the bootloader installation (I dont want 12.10 controlling this , that is 12.04's job )
    that’sabout it .....the install proceeded fine and I am typing this in rekonq from the new 12.10 install

    maby different hardware or bad .ISO's or bad live-USB's are to blame for the several posts about the 12.10 installer not working right .

    VINNY

    EDIT : forgot to mention that rebooting to the new install did not require booting into 12.04 and update-grub as my 12.04 grub just loads the boot loader in sda5 and sda6 ,,,,,,, kudos to @Oceanlover for the work in this department
    Last edited by vinnywright; Dec 03, 2012, 07:00 PM.
    i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
    16GB RAM
    Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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      #17
      Had it happen on two machines now.

      The swap partition on both was at the end of the disk, not the beginning, if that's odd.

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        #18
        Mine hung as well...i had an existing swap as well. I just ejected the cd and reinserted it and it continued to the partitioner.

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