So I cracked and decided to see what the hype surrounding Ubuntu was since, after all, it is based on Debian. I downloaded the respective Live CD for my system and booted up. The Ubuntu Live CD started and I was presented with a nice looking GUI that allowed me to continue installation.

Everything was going smoothly until I was asked to ‘Prepare Partitions’. This part of the installation process didn’t recognize my hard disk drive. Turns out there’s a package called dmraid that needed to be removed.

In summary, if you’re experiencing a similar error during your Ubuntu 10.04 installation try the following steps:

• Boot the Live CD
• Instead of attempting to install right away, take a tour of Ubuntu
• Open a terminal
• Enter the following command: sudo apt-get remove dmraid
• When asked (you’ll know when) press ‘y’ to continue
• Run the install script from the Desktop
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