I’m trying to install Ubuntu Server 18.04 to dual boot with Windows. When I run the Ubuntu Server installer, it doesn’t show any partitions on the disk and instead recognizes my entire disk as unformatted.
Following the instalation tutorial, everything happens exactly as shown, except I never got past step 8, as trying to use the manual configuration shows my entire disk.
I’ve seen various questions about this and it seems to be related to errors on the partition table, thus fixed by gdisk. In my case, gdisk doesn’t report any errors, and the report doesn’t show overlapping partitions (as that also seems to be related).
After concluding it might not be a problem with my disk, I tried the Ubuntu Desktop installer, and it recognized all the partitions perfectly (in fact I installed it and am using it to try to fix this right now).
Is there anything the Ubuntu Server installer does differently from Ubuntu Desktop that I should be aware of (as far as I know they both use libparted), or am I missing something?
(I’ve seen something about zapping the GPT table, but I really don’t see a reason to risk doing that if Ubuntu Desktop had no problems with it)
Answer
Alternative Ubuntu Server installer
If you require advanced networking and storage features such as; LVM, RAID, multipath, vlans, bonds, or re-using existing partitions, you will want to continue to use the alternate installer. ubuntu-18.04.1-server-amd64.iso
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Source : Link , Question Author : Vinicius Lambardozzi , Answer Author : Бенжуа Упароца
