Comment 3 for bug 18472

Hi -

I don't think this is bug and I don't think the description below is for a
mailing list because I know that what I'm doing should work!

I reinstalled ubuntu without typing "expert" at the "boot:" prompt and I was
able to use the installation routine to create a 60 GB partition (and I could
have created a larger partition, smaller partition and more partitions, if
needed) IN ADDITION to the partitions that I created when I used "expert" (that
I was not, and still cannot create at the command line). In other words, I
could create partitions in the installation routine, but not at the command
line, after running: sudo fdisk /dev/hda and typing "n" to create a new
partition.

After the most recent installation, I still can't create a partition using the
steps described above. I have created partitions many times in Red Hat, Fedora,
SUSE and Mandrake.

I still want to be able to create partitions on hda and the other hard disk that
is in the system. Could someone please help me with this?

The following may be related to my problem and so I am relating this to you here.

When I installed with "expert", I could not run gui administration utilities,
such as by doing: System ; Administration ; Users and Groups (see bug
report 12201). When prompted for the password, I put in the password of the
non-root user that I created when I did the installation and got an error
message. After doing the recent installation (by just pressing Enter at the
"boot:" prompt), I was able to access gui installation utilities using the
non-root user's password. With the "expert" installation, the following
statement was NOT put at the end of /etc/sodoers:

          %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

And with just pressing Enter at the "boot:" prompt, the above statement was put
at the end of /etc/sudoers. Also, the non-root user was put in the group named
admin (which probably didn't happen when I installed as "expert").

THEREFORE, is something still missing from my setup so that I don't have enough
permission to create a partition?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.