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One and a half years later and the same issue popped up here. You really gotta love helpful answers like "read the f*ing manual", and nothing else. Is this the level of help we can expect? Would it hurt to describe HOW you would go about decreasing 'data' and increasing root? The manual page...

Third USB-stick I tried seemed to get it. I still had to manually force the HP to boot from USB-Key drive .. but that did the trick. Upgrading from 6.x to 7 doesn't seem to work anyway - all these additions you have to manually make to sources.list and what not. this'll be fun going forwards...

Might have written too soon .. been on "creating LVs" for 10 minutes now. The saga continues ...

What seemed to work was booting from a ISO-programmed USB stick, and at the same time having a burned DVD image of the same. I don't get it, but if it works .. and I wouldn't be doing this again any time soon. Now, the installer found the ISO it wanted - it was on the DVD drive - while booting...

I tried the 6.1 version, since I had that about. And no, the bios on the HP machine is older. What would it matter? It runs *everything* else.

I've been trying for a day now. Used 5 or so different programs, using DD or ISO mode, and it just won't work. I burned 2 DVD disks using different programs, still no luck. This is for the 7 version that's current today, downloaded twice to different computers (one a debian, to try the dd...