problem at fresh instalation

[Willy Hamra]

someone suggested winXP's disk management, well. DONT use that, it
just ends f***ing your partition table, i once asked it to delete a
partition, and it deleted it right with the one after it! partition
magic is fairly good, and i dont know if the liveCD of hardy has
Qtparted like in gutsy's, if so, you can try it out. and if you have
no prblem with CLI, try parted. if you prefer a windows program,
paragon partitioner is an excellent solution, and supports linux
filesystems, but it costs $$.
willy

On 5/5/08, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> Martin Laberge wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 May 2008 12:48:17 pm Jorge PÃ(c)rez wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Actually I have Kubuntu 7.10 running for some time (I just did an upgrade
> >> from previus versions) and all works fine. I have 2 IDE hard disks:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda partitions -> documents
> >> /dev/sdb partitions -> / , /home, Win XP, Swap
> >>
> >> Some time ago, my motherboard broke :( well, I just replace the
> motherboard
> >> and didn't have to install Kubuntu (so great).
> >>
> >> But now, I want to perform a fresh Kubuntu 8.04 install, but when I am in
> >> the manual partition step, I only have the posibility of change the SDA
> disk
> >> partitions and can only create a new partition table on the SDB (the
> >> installer can't see the partitions in SDB), but I don't want to delete my
> >> /home or my XP partiton.
> >>
> >> any idea? how can I fix the partition in order to be recognized by the
> >> Kubuntu partition manager?
> >>
> >> thank you.
> >>
> >
> > I recommend to swap your drives, so that your boot drive is sda
> > and your documents are on sdb
> >
> > this way is more 'natural' and normally expected by most systems.
> >
> > (just change the jumpers on both drives, and maybe swap cables)
>
> That sounds like sensible advice to me.
>
> Assuming I am correct to think you want to replace the 7.10 with 8.04,
> keeping the data  in home and keeping XP:
>
> If you manually set the existing /home into a new install, then I
> think you will be keeping some parts of 7.10 configuration, which are
> in hidden files in /home/user. This might not be quite what you want,
> or you could have upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04, but that would not be a
> fresh install. You can use the old home as a data partition, with a
> new /home in 8.04 perhaps.
>
> Also, consider use of a separate small live CD such as Partition Magic
> or Parted live Cd, to manage or change partitions before you  install
> 8.04. I find it is sometimes faster and less confusing, and then use a
> manual install.
>
> I often have more than one version (7.04, 7.10 say) installed, each
> with its own home.  I also keep a Data partition which can be used by
> any of the installs.
> --
> alan cocks
> Kubuntu user#10391
>
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