istall of 9.1 remix

[J]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:39, Loïc Grenié <loic.grenie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/2/15 Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com>:
>> She's got 122 gig for data and I am not sure she wants to put it there
>> or just on the ubuntu partition.  But for now I plan to install 10.1
>> on the 10 gig partition.
>>
>> I tried also setting to '/' and stilkl got the message.  But I chose
>> logical partition.  Do i need to make it primary?
>
>    No, you don't. I don't understand what is the problem.

Did you check the box that says something like "Format this partition"
and choose ext3, ext2 or ext4??

That may be the problem... that's just a grasp at a straw though...

Lets make sure this is right:

/dev/sda1      100GB      Windows 7
/dev/sda2      122.9GB   ??
/dev/sda3      10GB        Vista??
/dev/sda4      15MB        ??

Correct?

Whats in that sda2 partition?  You said "data" but what data?  Is it
something she only needs for Windows, or is it something she wants to
share between the two?  I'm assuming that it's an NTFS partition.

Here's the thing, I don't know for sure if you can set that NTFS
partition as /home.  NTFS has historically been a bit ... twitchy in
Linux, though the later drivers seem to be fairly stable when it comes
to reading and/or writing to NTFS partitions, but still, YMMV.

Honestly, if that sda2 partition is required to stay as it is, I would
run the installer and do the following:

Choose custom partitioning.
Delete sda3 and sda4 completely.
create a 100MB partition and set that as /boot
create a 1GB partition for swap
create one more partition with all remaining space for /

Install

After install, create a mount point in /media or /home called
something like data, mystuff, or whatever:

mkdir /media/mystuff
or
mkdir /home/mystuff

and add a line to /etc/fstab to either automount /dev/sda2 at boot time.

HTH,

Jeff

P.S. I would also consider shrink that 122.9GB partition by 10GB or so
(Assuming she hasn't filled it up) to give Ubuntu a little more space
for the filesystem and for swap (I make most of mine with 2GB swap
partitions as a general rule).




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