Re: Installing kubuntu
- From: Harry Vorstenbosch <harry.vorstenbosch@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:37:15 +0100
Dear Reader(s), and or dear Paul,
I have installed Ubuntu on a Gericom laptop in where previously,
WindowsXP was installed on /dev/hda1 with ntfs (5,9GB) and in where my
data drive /dev/hda2 (15,6 GB) (previously formatted with vfat) to
exchange data between Windows and SuSE linux on partition /dev/hda3
(102MB)as the BOOT partition and /dev/hda6 (5,4GB) as the ROOT partition
for SuSE 10.0.
I converted, with SuSE, the vfat data drive to reiserfs later on to
exchange the data between Ubuntu and SuSE. At boot time I can choose
between SuSE (current default) and Ubuntu via GRUB.
I also replaced my FedoraCore4 installation with Ubuntu Breezy on my AMD
Athlon 64 bits machine in where WindowsXP with ntfs is installed
on /dev/hda1, and there are several partitions more, see next lines
which is my fstab file from SuSE 10.0. As you can see, WindowsXp
together with Ubuntu, SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 9.3 are all installed onto the
saame machine. Furthermore, I run a large vfat /dev/hdb6 partition were
I can exchange data between Windows and Linux and other machines in my
small private network. Inside the fstab file there are links to and from
other machines on my small (kingswood) network, so I can exchange files
between them using the SMB and/or the NFS file systems.
On the 64bits AMD machine I can choose for SuSE 10.0 (current default)
Ubuntu breezy, SuSE 9.3 and WindowsXP all of course via GRUB.
harry@darkstar:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda8 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb5 /suse93 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /ubuntu/breezy reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /ubuntu/start reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /windows/E vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs
noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs
noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
obelix.kingwood:/home /home/obelix nfs defaults 0 0
obelix.kingwood:/data2 /home/obelix/data2 nfs defaults 0 0
obelix.kingwood:/data1 /home/obelix/data1 nfs defaults 0 0
obelix.kingwood:/srv/ftp /srv/ftp/obelix nfs defaults 0 0
venus.kingwood:/data /home/venus/data nfs defaults 0 0
venus.kingwood:/srv/ftp /srv/ftp/venus nfs defaults 0 0
harry@darkstar:~>
Resume, If you stay attend at installation time you would be able to
install (K)Ubuntu the way you want, but be aware and take notice on my
earlier writings in where I pinpoint to the "other" mounted partitions.
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 21:01 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
I would have assumed that the partition tool behaved the way you described.
My problem is that when I selected "manually partition", I was presented with
a screen asking if I wanted to reformat my 80G disk. Shouldn't one of the
early screens show the existing partitions and ask me what to do with each
one? AFAIK, the partitioning tool is simply not reporting the existence of
the partitions.
According to all I've seen the Breezy installer detects the NTFS partition on
XP disks, but it's not detecting any reiserfs paritions on my disk.
Still confused.
Paul
On Thursday 02 February 2006 08:34, Harry Vorstenbosch wrote:
Dear Reader(s),
As far as I have experienced, you are able to manually perform the
partition table in where you can choose for formatting (with reiserfs)
your partition /dev/hda3 and qualified this disk(part) as "installable"
"root device" for Kubuntu. (Otherwise Kubuntu will mount /dev/hda1 as
your root partition for itself as the default root).
You also will be able to define /dev/hda8 as a swap disk. (But (K)ubuntu
can make use of your already defined swap disk (after reformatting) of
your device /dev/hda5.)
Inside the partition part you also will be able to define the other
partitions to be mounted (in fstab) as /dev/hda6 /home and /dev/hda7
as /home/photo. In that case you can manually edit the way it comes in
fstab and you can choose to KEEP the current file-system and do NOT
format but mount it as /dev/home etc.
Via the grub menu you also will be able to define the current
"/" (/dev/hda1) as second or first bootable disk.
But you need to go through the partition menu, but be aware to keep the
current data drives, and mount them the way YOU want.
The system goes writing the partition table only the way YOU want and if
you are not agreed with the (by yourself) suggested partition table you
just do it over again and again before you WRITE it.
GoodLuck,
Harry,
All other disk On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 05:45 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
When I tried to install kubuntu onto a disk that has an existing Linux
distro and already established (but empty) partitions, I got stuck at the
partitioning menu. None of the existing paritions are detected by the
kubuntu installer. The installer wants to reformat the whole disk.
Here's my table:
/dev/hda1 10G reiserfs existing /
/dev/hda5 1G swap
/dev/hda6 10G reiserfs existing /home
/dev/hda7 20G reiserfs existing /home/photos
/dev/hda3 10G reiserfs empty, intended for kubuntu /
/dev/hda4 20G reiserfs empty, intended for kubuntu /home
/dev/hda8 1G swap (intended for kubuntu
What's wrong here? How can I install kubuntu onto hda 3 & 4?
TIA
Paul
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