[Ubuntu-BD] Kubuntu 8.10 Installation problem + network dead in Kubuntu 8.10 RC

[Mohammad Bhuyan]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Shahriar Tariq <shahriar at linux.org.bd> wrote:
> Problem 1
> I had a working Kubuntu 8.10 RC up until now, my friend downloaded Kubuntu
> 8.10 for me, since both my CDROM & DVDROM is dead I took my hard disk to his
> house to install Kubuntu 8.10 stable release.
>
> But there I could not install Kubuntu 8.10 gparted could not see my present
> partition, it just shows my harddisk as one larg unallocated harddisk space
> as sda1 (my hdd is 40GB pata)
>
> Does anyone have any clue why its showing sda1?

In recent kernels, both PATA and SATA drives are handled by libata
library which names all the drives as sd* (sda1, sda2, sdb1 .. etc)

> and not showing my existing partitions?
>
> prety much what I remember, partition 1 is swap drive, partition 2 is root
> ext3, Partition 3 is /home ext3 Partition 4 C drive (ntfs), partition 5 is D
> (ntfs)
>
> but the whole thing is shown one larg unallocated space :(  is anyone else
> getting this problem>??
>
> I heard the same problem in dream linux.
>

> Problem 2
>
> when I plugged my hdd to my friend's pc I suppose it changed the network
> configuration for my existing Kubuntu 8.10 RC. and now I can't connect to
> internet.
>

Did you boot linux from your HDD in your friends PC?!!? I will be
surprised if that works unless you both have identical hardware
configuration. It will be different story if you have tried to do so
and in that process you messed up configuration files of your
installation. In that case, coming back to you PC again, what will
work and what won't is "undefined".

But if you didn't boot your linux distor from your HDD, then your
friends OS is not supposed to see your partitions until you configure
to mount them. So no question of changing your config files.

Maybe the problem lies elsewhere!

> I can't find a way to reconfigure it, I tried Knetworkmanager  without much
> success. I tried setting new connection, auto enabling, without success.
>
> it does not give any warning or anything, just does not work
>
>
> I just want my kubuntu 8.10 RC get backed online.
>
> I hate windows I hate every second I spend on windows. PLZ save me from this
> punishment
>

>
> --
> Thanking you
> Shahriar
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