Hi Norman,
I think the only mistake you made (for future reference out to help others)
was to install grub to the partition rather than the whole of the boot
drive.
To recover now, you boot the live CD and reinstall grub, as others have
suggested. The complete list of instructions is on the grub
On 2012-05-13 19:59, mac wrote:
> Doh! That was the mistake! In fact, portmap is included in the rpcbind
> package that apt-get substitutes when you do
>
> sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common
>
> But you *don't* use 'rcpbind' in the /etc/hosts.deny file; use
> portmap : ALL
> as previousl
On 13/05/12 21:03, Bill Baker wrote:
Norman, please wait for further advice before trying my suggestion;
but if this was my machine I would now boot directly to Ubuntu from
the live CD & from there I would try "grub-install /dev/sda" [or sdx
where x is the boot drive] from a terminal. However,
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 20:45 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Barry, using gparted, the HDD containing Windows XP Pro was partitioned
> as you described and all seemed well. The installation process was
> started and do something else selected. The partition allocated ext4 was
> chosen and then I
Barry, using gparted, the HDD containing Windows XP Pro was partitioned
as you described and all seemed well. The installation process was
started and do something else selected. The partition allocated ext4 was
chosen and then I was warned that I needed to indicate a boot partition
so I chose this
On 12/05/12 14:03, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-05-12 10:52, mac wrote:
Because portmap is deprecated now, my hosts.deny file simple has
rpcbind : ALL
Doh! That was the mistake! In fact, portmap is included in the rpcbind
package that apt-get substitutes when you do
sudo apt-get insta
> > I can understand and follow all that you say and, viewed
> > theoretically, it is very good. Where I am at a complete loss is how
> > to practically modify the partition containing Windows. I suppose I
> > should read up on gparted before going any further. Norman
>
> gparted is easy! Fi
On 13/05/12 16:47, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I can understand and follow all that you say and, viewed
theoretically, it is very good. Where I am at a complete loss is how
to practically modify the partition containing Windows. I suppose I
should read up on gparted before going any further. Norm
> > That's OK Barry, not to worry, time is on my side. I forget to mention
> > that although I have used Ubuntu since Warty the emphasis is on used
> > and not fiddled with. Instructions I can usually follow but age is not
> > on my side (84 years young) Norman
>
> Right. I'm a kid of only 70
On 12 May 2012 17:38, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install Windows and
> Ubuntu on one of the drives keeping the other for data and so on. In the
> past I have dual booted many machines without any difficulty but this is
> the first time I have tried
On 13/05/12 08:49, Norman Silverstone wrote:
That's OK Barry, not to worry, time is on my side. I forget to mention
that although I have used Ubuntu since Warty the emphasis is on used
and not fiddled with. Instructions I can usually follow but age is not
on my side (84 years young)
Just a th
On 13/05/12 08:49, Norman Silverstone wrote:
That's OK Barry, not to worry, time is on my side. I forget to mention
that although I have used Ubuntu since Warty the emphasis is on used
and not fiddled with. Instructions I can usually follow but age is not
on my side (84 years young) Norman
Ri
> > Barry, I would be most grateful if you could point me in the right
> > direction. I know that one of the options is to do something else. I
> > have looked at that where the drives are listed but I am uncertain
> > what to do thereafter.
>
> Got a lot to do tonight - it will be tomorrow a
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