I have previously installed versions of "ubuntu" and "mint". These installations to try the linux operating system before a full installation were accomplished without removing "windows." I believe they created a live type partition and can simply be uninstalled just as any other program. Is it possible to install "fedora" in this same manner?
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I have partitioned my HDD to give it a 30GB location for Ubuntu 10.04. I just need to know what steps to take to install it to the drive I partitioned for it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI had installed a fedora13 on my pc with an error:
disk /dev/dm-0 /dev/dm-1 and /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table. how can this be resolved?
My motherboard is msi p55-cd53 with a 160GB SATA HD attached to it.
When I install Ubuntu, after doing Windows, it always seems to hog some space away from Windows. How can I get Ubuntu to use only the unpartitioned space I left? I don't know how to use the advanced partitioning tool.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAt present I have a hard drive with three primary partitions and one extended (logically split).
I'm runnining win 2k pro in each primary partition.
I'm about to reformat the middle primary partition and would like to take this opportunity of trying Ubuntu using the middle primary partition.
I'm using GAG to switch from one partition to another.
Is there any reason why trying Ubuntu in the middle partition would cause problems.
I think I read that Ubuntu can mess up the MBR.
Firstly im a linux newbie so try and bear with me, and make any advice clear anywho Ive been running ubuntu for a while on a single partition. Ive recently been looking into other distros and came across arch linux. As i installed arch it was recommended that you create partitions for various directories, such as boot, tmp etc.
Ive read the advantages of this and would now like to set ubuntu up in a similar fashion, alongside arch. Whats the 'best' way to do this. Can ubuntu use the partitions set up by arch? Will i have to reinstall ubuntu? eh i dont know if my question makes sense since its late here and its a topic i know little about. To put it simply: how do you create a multi-partitioned system running both ubuntu and arch
I am getting ready to install Ubuntu 9.04 on my Dell laptop, only because 10.04 won't work. I have the hard drive partitioned as C: and D: . I am keeping Windows on C: for a couple of applications that need it. I still have a few things on the D: drive. Do I need to have it completely clean and formatted? And, will Ubuntu ask where I want it to be installed or will it just take the largest contiguous space available? After the install, does the system automatically ask if I want Windows or Ubuntu or how do I tell it which system to bring up?
View 1 Replies View RelatedNew gateway laptop with a 330M nvidia card and windows 7. I partitioned the drive and made a dual boot with the 64bit 10.04. Everything seemed to be running fine. I installed the recommended drivers for the nvidia card (and also ran an update). I rebooted. Now I get the same thing whether in recovery mode, normal boot or even to a liveCD, first ubuntu with the five dots (with an odd green halo around them) then a few screens flash by and then blackness.
None of the f keys do anything, nor does holding shift during the boot and ctrl+alt+anything does not have an affect except ctrl+alt+delete will shut down still. Once in my frustrated button bashing I did somehow get a stretched out window saying there seems to be some graphics problem, from there I did get to a somewhat normal looking desktop. I didn't to do anything then, foolishly thinking I could do it again in the future (for some presumably unrelated reason I could not get online = no updates and no Internet help) I haven't gotten back there since.
I regret to see the lack of facility for Guided install into the 'largest unpartitioned space on the drive'. I cannot find it either in the Desktop CD, or the Alternate CD. It seemed to disappear in Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop CD but did stay in the Alternate CD. But in 10.10 it seems to have gone completely.I found it a really *very* useful facility for myself, and also when helping others - when all I had to say to them was - 'delete the existing partition/s, do nothing more expect then, install using the facility 'Install into the largest unpartitioned space on the drive'.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a bit of a problem in my new install of Lenny (5.0.1). The machine in question was running XP and has a C: drive (system) and two other had drives (ide) one with music on and the other with videos. All were NTFS naturally.
I installed Lenny and re partitioned the system drive accordingly with swap and root partitions, no problems there.
The next phase was to convert the other two drives to ext3. The music drive has been backed up so the plan was to re-partition that to ext3, copy the video files to it and then re partition the now ex video drive and restore the music files to that.
I ran Gparted and partitioned the old music drive to ext3 but could not then mount it, it didn't do this after formating. I did not have permissions to mount the drive.
I read on a forum how to mount the drive from Terminal, going to /mnt, mkdir VideoDrive, mount /dev/hdb1 VideoDrive and presto it was mounted. However I still did not have permissions to it and could therefore not create directories.
Right clicking on the drive and showing properties now showed owner as root ~ create and delete files, group as root ~ access files, others ~ access files. All of these drop-downs are unavailable for changing.
I went into users and groups. There were groups there called mike and root so I selected both root user and mike user as members of both of these groups. Nope.
In the drive properties I entered Mount Point as /mnt/VideoDrive, File System as ext3, and Mount Options as defaults,unmask=000 0 0. The other forum I read stated that unmask is used to allow access to all users.
I then transfered these options to the Volume properties, again no joy.
I have added entries into the fstab and mtab files still no joy.
I have a brand new 4GB SD Card from Sandisk, and I am trying to partition & configure this (for using with Pandaboard and minimalfs), with commands detailed here: PandaBoard Minimal-FS SD Configuration - OMAPpedia.
My configuration is openSUSE 11.0 (i586) & I am connecting a USB based card reader. I could never partition the SD Card. I do not get an error with any of the commands. I tried running partprobe as well as a system reboot, My output is copied here[URL]..
im really new to ubuntu and ive tried to install ubuntu 10.04 to my pc previously wich resulted in a total fail and me paying $90 to a technician. So when he formated my HD i told him to make a 80GB partition so i could install Ubuntu the right way,and now i want to install it to this parition. My HD is partitioned in 3
Sda1-266GB (VIsta)
Sda2-80GB (going to be ubuntu but currently empty)
Sda3-9GB (Used to be Factory Image)
I want to go through the installation and install UBuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx in Sda2 so i can make a Dual boot and select between Vista and UBuntu on each startup,what exactly should i do in the installation process?
I have just installed linux mint. original os was win vista and 3 hard disk partitions but after installing the partitions cant be seen and neither can be accessed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to use half of my 16gb pendrive to keep files and the other to install linux. Is it possible?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've started this new topic because my original one was a bit old and my circumstances have changed a bit. I'm trying to install Centos on a system with a adaptec 5805 hardware raid card, real raid not faked, and am having problems when a large, over 2tb, sized array is partitioned. I have two raids on the card, one is a raid 1 with 2 500gb drives that I am installing the OS to and the other is 4 1tb drives in a raid 5 so I wind up with around a 2.7tb array. I was having all kinds of problems when I left both arrays in place during the install but a firmware upgrade on both the motherboard and the raid card seemed to improve it to the point where as long as I do not tell the install to format the 2.7tb array in any way I can get the install finished and it will boot up and work. If I touch the array in any way during the install I get a system hang after a question about booting from the cdrom drive.
My final test was to do a fresh install and remove and re add both arrays so they were clean and leave the 2.7tb array completely out of the install process. Then after install I set up a gpt partition using parted from the command line, I didn't even put a file system on it. When I rebooted I got the same hang up after a cdrom boot prompt. I then used the install dvd to boot into rescue mode and wiped the partition on the 2.7tb array using
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=1024
which made the drive out to be empty. Now the system boots up fine again. The only thing I can't tell, since it goes by too quickly, is if there is any kind of cdrom prompt like when the array is partitioned. I'm wondering if when the array is partitioned as a gpt is it possible it looks like a cdrom and thus stopping the boot somehow? Is there any other way of partitioning a 2.7tb array so I can see if taking gpt out of the equation will fix the problem??
I copied a couple of small files to it, and it seemed to copy fine, I was sure to unmount before removing, but those two files ended up being corrupted and although they appear on the stick, they can't be opened any more. Almost all the other files on the stick are still fine apart from one or two other ones, which definitely used to be openable but now are not. So perhaps it's got some bad blocks or something? So I hunted around for ways to check the stick, I'm guessing maybe it can mark those bits as bad and keep on using the other bits maybe?
I search, and I find fsck, so I run that on the stick and it doesn't seem to find anything, or complain about errors or anything, so I figure it's done nothing. (The stick is formatted as VFAT and can be read by both linux and windows). I remount the stick and see a new, extra file there, a deleted pdf from a few weeks ago apparently recovered by fsck. No problem, I delete it. But I guess that means fsck did do something after all. Then I unmount and remove the stick, and plug it in again just to check that things are working. And here's where it gets weird.
When I remount the stick, the files which were there before are no longer there. Instead, there's just a single png file, apparently from 2006, which I haven't seen since then I don't think. And I can open that file fine. Bizarre, where are my files gone? I unmount the stick, remount it, and all my files are back again! What the? Finding this curious, I run gparted on the stick to see if there is maybe more than one partition, and some glitch caused it to mount some hidden partition or something (I'm stabbing wildly in the dark, as you see). But gparted says that the whole drive is "unallocated", and fdisk seems to be saying it hasn't got a partition table. So I guess I've got a few questions coming out of this:
- Is this a problem that the stick doesn't seem to be partitioned? Should I partition it with gparted?
- Is there a way to do a proper check of the disk to check for bad blocks/sectors/clusters/whatever they're called, and mark them? fsck seemed to finish too quick to have really checked things properly.
- Is this stick dying and in need of replacement?
I used to be a Mac user until my Ibook died. I now have a Toshiba Netbook running Ubuntu 10.04, but want to make use of my Maxtor external 250 GB drive, although it's formatted for Mac.Could someone advise as to a way around getting my old data off, before re-formatting for Linux use? Is it possible to partition part of the drive for Ubuntu - move everything into that and then delete the old apple partition?
View 2 Replies View RelatedRight so I reformated my windows partition to ext3. Now ubuntu tells me there is a problem with it when I start the system. It says it cand find it and asks me if I want to: s ignore this or m fix it manually. Well that or something quite similar. how I make it understan I don't have a windows partition any more?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen installing Mint 10, I re-did some partitions, but forgot to turn off my old 30Gb external HDD, and deleted it's partitions. Which is the best software to recover it? It was partitioned with Windows software I think. Or should I use XP and freeware? Or else it will cost me $70-$80.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHaving just moved to Linux from Windows, I have never considered whether or not to partition my 250 GB external hard drive. As of right now it will only be used for data storage. Should it be partitioned? If so, what size partitions?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am running RHEL5 on VMWare Esxi, i JUST DELETED A 30 GB PARTITION, AND WANT THIS os TO STOP SEEING IT So I can use it for a new machine...How do I go about removing it from the RHEL VM??
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to mount the old partitioned drive with all my data as a slave and then transfer to the new system. Have fiddled around with settings in fstab without the required result. As I remember, disk was partitioned with home, root and swap.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI partitioned my hard drive on my computer with G-parted, the second partition (sda3) has data stored on it. I use to have Karmic Koala on sda1, but something went wrong and I want to install it back on sda1. How would I do this without losing my data on sda3? When I use the live disc, it want to install it onto sda3. I cannot figure out how to install it only on sda1.
Also, when I stored data, I want to store it on the sda3 partition. I already have on that partition a /jason file which was my old Karmic Koala.
can windows read linux partitioned nas drives or vise versa?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 into an existing partition. The other partition contains some backups.
When I get to step 5, the system freezes on the message that no root file system is defined. Correct this from the partitioning menu.
I have tried the options, but except for allowing the installation to take over the whole disc, erasing my backups, there does not seem to be an alternative way forward.
The following partitions are shown:
sda1 (fat16) 33,7 MB
sda6 (fat16) 26,2 GB
sda5 (ntfs) 53,8 GB
My backups are on sda5 and I am trying to install Ubuntu on sda6.
GParted tells me my hard drive is not partitioned and has an unrecognised partition table, but I know it has because i'm using it now to write this on here, and fdisk shows the following:
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Anyone know of anyreason GParted may not be working or can offer an alternative to create a partition?
Vista refused to boot past login and eventually froze up in safe mode, preventing me from even safely copying files to a storage device. My friend suggested trying Ubuntu temporarily, and I'm currently running it as a trial from a key thob.I'm very much a newbie to the OS but after some getting used to and playing around over a few days Im happy to make the switch permanently. I managed to take off the needed files, and then went on to do some cleaning up of my harddrive to make some room for a partition for Ubuntu. I was removing things like old music, videos and games, nothing vital, but after I reset I tried to enter the C drive Im given this message:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 18: Failed to open hiberfil.sys data attribute: No such file or directory Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': No such file or directoryMy HD is currently partitioned for two 150gb drives, and I can still use my D drive fine for all purposes.
I just partitioned and installed slack on a 1TB hard drive. I then run KDiskFree under KDE, and saw that I am missing about 300Gig! Is it just a simple thing between bytes and bits like MS. Or is this an issue I can not ignore? I have 3 partitions. One is my swap, one is ext4(slackware is on) the last is a jfs partition.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install fedora 10 kickstart on my server.But I can't, because my kickstart installation hangs at post install scripts.It is not showing any message & stopped.
View 1 Replies View Relatedafter a fresh installation of the English version (Live CD installer) of Fedora 12 (Gnome) I would like to set the default system language to German.But I would like to have the whole Gnome desktop in German. What is the recommended place in Fedora to set this? /etc/profile or are there any Fedora specific configuration files for this purpose?Btw, the GDM login screen doesn't provide the German language as a choice. Do I miss a package? I already browsed the DE packages for localization packages I did not install but it seems there is no one missing.
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