[GRLUG] ubuntu/kubuntu boot issues

[Bill Creswell]

This sounds like it may be the difference, Topher. I partitioned mine
first with fips.
I do this on dual boot, to be sure it does not torq my Windows
installs.  I think my  RedHat installs used to require this. In fact,
I am pretty sure this came from the dosutils directory of redhat.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue38/veselosky.html
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=340870&seqNum=3&rl=1

I'll play with it here, and verify. (Since then I have 3 pcs dedicated
to reformatting and re-installing Linux, and don't do much dual boot.)


dt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the late response, cable went out while downloading the iso...
>
> Steps you should be able to handle yourself
>
> - download installtion iso for your arch
> - burn it (or)
> - boot it (virtually or not)
>
> Step by step
>
> - press [enter] at the boot menu
> - press [enter] (English is already selected)
> - press [enter] (United States is already selected)
> - press [enter] (American English is already selected)
> - press [enter] (or provide an alternate hostname and press [enter])
>
> At this point, because I already have partitions on my disk, Ubuntu
> offers to resize the largest partition on my primary ide drive and
> install into the empty space provided.  That is the default option.
> Also provided are 'erase the entire disk', 'erase the entire disk and
> use LVM' and 'manually edit partition table'.  You don't want to erase
> the disk, so select 'manually edit partition table' at which point you
> are give the options 'configure software raid', 'configure lvm',
> 'guided partitioning', 'help on partitioning', and an individually
> selectable list of all the partitions currently on your drive.  Let's
> select a partition and press [enter]...  Upon doing that, I'm
> presented with the available options for the type of partition
> selected, and 'done setting up this partition', 'copy data from
> another partition', and 'delete the partition'.
>
> So at this point, you can delete partitions, create new ones (by
> selecting [free space] instead of a partition), move data between
> partitions, adjust partition properties, and there are even handy
> options that explain all of this in a much more convienient and
> somewhat less annoyed manner...
>
> I fail to see why this is hard.
>
> Note that resizing partitions is somewhat outside the scope of the
> Ubuntu installer...  Windows XP can't resize my ext3 partitions nor do
> I expect it to.  If you'd like to resize a partition before installing
> ubuntu use your partition resizing application of choice.
>
> It's somewhat disturbing to see such a prominently displayed help
> option being ignored repeatedly...
>
> --tim
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