Yay! With Chris's assistance, I have my old Dell running Ubuntu properly now. He walked me through the correct manual partitioning of the free-space I partitioned out on my initial drive and all is right with the world - or at lest this small corner of it.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions - I have a few other things on my plate to do now as well, but for now, I think just getting the desktop up and functional as a daily system is going to be enough. We still don't know why the automated installer never presented any but the last disk in the chain, but the "Advanced" section did everything we needed - so I am just not going to worry about that now. Onward! JC On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]>wrote: > Mathias:Thanks for that. I pulled down EaseUS Partition - Something - and > it seemed to work - but now, since Ubuntu was "already installed", I am > going to have to do something a little different first - it just tries to > put back what it has already - which isn't right. Sigh. > > JC > > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Matthias Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Jack, >> >> Just a heads up. There is always PartedMagic which I use in place of all >> paid partitioning tools >> >> http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start >> >> Its a free live cd with gparted and a bunch of other tools in a GUI. >> >> Matthias >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College >> Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel >> >> Jan 9 - High Performance Computing >> Feb 6 - February Meeting >> >> > > > -- > 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. > -- 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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