On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:00 AM, James E. LaBarre <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 11/10/2012 07:26 AM, Jack Chastain wrote: > >> I pulled my USB-based disk off the system and tried the Ubuntu disk >> again - This time, the install sees only my SECOND disk (E: in Windows - >> never worked out why it isn't D, but it isn't C: - which I think is >> where I want things, yes? - that would be sda. I am seeing sdb) I did >> NOT continue. >> > > Windows (at least up through XP) *must* be installed on the first disk, as > far as I know. As for your system showing the second HDD as "E:"; I'm > presuming it was added after XP had been installed. XP will hard-code > drive letters, but that can be changed under ControlPanel | Administrative > Tools | Computer Management | Disk Management. Just change the CD/DVD to a > different letter, change the HDD to D:, then change the CD/DVD to E:. > Yeah - this isn't important at all - just not - quite - what was ... expected. I have to train myself to understand my disks don't run "c: D: E: now - but actually (under that other OS) C: E; H: - not a big problem, just messes with the finger memories. > > Of course, that still doesn't answer the problem of Ubuntu not seeing the > first drive. If you boot with something like PartedMagic, does that see > your drives appropriately? And if it does, you could use that to shrink > the XP "C:" partition, then see if the Ubuntu installer sees the disk > correctly. > Ubuntu - apparently - DOES see all the drives - but the install only presents the last one in the pull-down list for the automated install. Chris and I are pretty sure this is a bug in the install code - but when you have someone (Chris!) who knows what they are doing (NOT me!) and you use the "Advanced" method - everything is there and pretty much perfectly understandable. I doesn't appear to my eye that Ubuntu knows<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#QuantalQuetzal.2BAC8-ReleaseNotes.2BAC8-CommonInfrastructure-1.Installation>this is an issue. I will probably work with Chris to get it listed. 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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