Hi folks - this is probably pretty basic, but I have been up all night and am about to run the Motorcycle up to Hyde Park for some repair - just don't have the time to go digging right now. It also isn't terribly urgent.
I decided - finally - to put Ubuntu 12 on my old desktop. Prior to this, I have been using my old IBM laptop, but it's time to make some changes. I dumped the latest distro from the Ubuntu page, burned a DVD and kicked off the install. When it came time to assign disk space, the disk selection box ONLY contained my external MyBook 1Tb USB drive. I had no other indication that my C or D disk (both with lots of space available) were known to the system. Odd. Of course, I figured "What the heck - let's see what it will do" knowing full well that most likely, I would need to pull some odd USB-style tricks to get the thing to boot - but hey - why not see what happens. Well - as you probably know already - "No such device" is what happens and I am driven immediately to the grub rescue prompt. CAn't even get back to Windoze now. Sigh. I need to get back to - at least - Windoze, but also need to know why my other disks were not offered as options - since I probably have to put it on one of the internals for this thing to work the easy way - right? I haveit booted under the LiveCD and have a terminal up, will do a little research of my own probably tomorrow - but if anyone in the group has a nice easy fix for me, a direction would be appreciated Thanks! JC -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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