Dual boot with Mint 14 - installer does not offer sda as option

[Frank616]

oshunluvr:

Tried 12.04. Same story.

It is interesting that only the first option fails to see the SSD (sda). The second and third options (use whole disk, or manual) both see the Vertex SSD. Thing is, I don't want it to use the whole disk. I want it to install in a dual-boot setup with Mint.

I guess I can do it manually, but I may need some help with that.

Thanks.

Frank.

[oshunluvr]

Ubiquity often doesn't see a partition table but I've never heard of it not seeing a whole device. Try 12.04 and see if it's different. If yes, you could install the older version and then upgrade.

[Frank616]

I have a 120 GB SSD in my aging desktop Core-2 Duo. I installed Mint 14 a while back, but don't like it that much. I don't want to blow away the install at this point, but I do want to install Kubuntu 12.10 64 bit. I had hoped to do dual boot, but the Kubuntu 12.10 installer only offers to install on the 1.5 Tb sdb. I want to install both OS's on sda, which is the SSD.

I'm trying to avoid a manual install as I usually mess those up.

Suggestions?

Frank.