istall of 9.1 remix

[Loïc Grenié]

2010/2/15 J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com>:
> 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.

     I think this is not what the OP said. As far as I understood
  the sda3 partition was reformatted and used as /home (first try)
  and / (second try).

> 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 /

     The /boot partition is not really needed (especially if you need to
  install on a relatively small space). swap is usually recommended
  but can also be made as a file on the / partition.

> 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

     This is not needed: you can choose at install time where the
  windows partition will show up. There are some sensible propositions
  (I don't remember off-hand, something like /mnt/windows or so).

> 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).

     I think s/he does not want to move anything on the computer. I'd
  probably do the same with a computer that is not mine...

      Best,

       Loïc