Installation hangs while preparing partition in Linux Mint 9

[Souman]

I am revamped to Linux. I am attempting to install Mint 9 on an old Win2000 computer. P4 1.6 GHz 512MB The Live CD works amazing. Even able to use a old PCI wireless card. When attempting to install, the installation hangs at arrange the part. I did much looking here and on Google and found "solutions". Try not to totally comprehend them. Is there a basic/step by step/easy to take after guide any place that could help me? Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Addison]

Since a computer is old, ext3 filesystem works superior to ext4. Prefer advanced choice (encountered user) and make the parts. My opinion is:

• -root partition --> primary ext3 --> 10 GB
• -swap partition --> 1 GB
• -home partition --> logical ext3 --> big enough = 10 GB +

[Nidra]

I try not to get far enough in the install to get to the advance options. Following I decide on keyboard and click advance the following window expresss arrange parcel but every last item is grayed out and stays that way. Any other valid suggestions? Thanks for the help.I am getting the below error:

sudo dmraid -r -E /dev/sda
Do you really want to erase "ddf1" ondisk metadata on /dev/sda ? [y/n] :y
ERROR: ddf1: seeking device "/dev/sda" to 81919999737856
ERROR: writing metadata to /dev/sda, offset 159999999488 sectors, 
size 0 bytes returned 0
ERROR: erasing ondisk metadata on /dev/sda

[Clarice]

I am having the same situation on a small Dell Mini 9. I get to the select keyboard page and I was told that there were no raid drives or something. I think this PC has a small robust state drive that has never been part of anything else. I don't arrangement on dual booting or anything, I actually would like to install linux.

sudo dmraid -r -E /dev/sda