questions

[Knapp]

2010/2/9 Ahmad Abou el-naga <champion_2010 at hotmail.com>:
> I recently tried Kubuntu through windows(wubi) and I want to permanently
> install it but i have some questions please,
>
> 1-when it was installing through wubu it came to the part of installing
> apps.(80%) and gave an error so i skipped

Check the md5 sum  of your install disk. These are the sums for 9.10.
If these don't check out, get a new disk before installing. If they do
check out the problem maybe your drive or something else. What was the
error?

76e5a5d4b704677744bd84e042c05b63 kubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso
33fce2476d982977216faa40cbc334c5 kubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso
5a996e0d794e35509d0275d411a3e737 kubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso
18ecb71bff567ce7a91443720a86473e kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
36b1f68a396f3b4e4b5cc0849877ff35 kubuntu-9.10-netbook-i386.iso


> 2-should I convert the file system to ext3 or ext4 and NTFS is not possible?

I might be wrong but ext4 seems to still be having some problems, so
perhaps sticking with 3 is better. Please someone correct this, if it
is wrong now. The only reason that I know of to go with ext4 is if you
have HUGE hard drives. Is ext4 faster now than ext3 on a normal users
hard drive?

> 3 If I did this file system conversion or format will I loose anything If I
> did applied this to a separate drive other than that which has all the
> needed data and the drive for windows?

You will not loose data, but you might have to copy it over from the
old place to the new place. Kubuntu can do this, in other words it can
read the NTFS file format with the data.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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