On 14 May 2012 20:41, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Many thanks to those who went to the trouble to help and guide me. I am
> now a little older and a lot wiser. Without doubt, the easiest way to do
> what I wanted is to open the box, disconnect the second drive, install
> the OSs, test, reconnect t
Many thanks to those who went to the trouble to help and guide me. I am
now a little older and a lot wiser. Without doubt, the easiest way to do
what I wanted is to open the box, disconnect the second drive, install
the OSs, test, reconnect the second drive and close the box.
Norman
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ubuntu-u
On 14 May 2012 18:13, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 14/05/12 13:41, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> That is true and correct, AFAICS, but to be honest, it would probably be
>> easier just to reinstall. Norman: at a minimum, you need 2 partitions. I
>> suggest you shrink the Windows partition by about half and
> space on your windows drive. If it is vista or win7 then I would
> consider first asking windows to shrink ITSELF, you may get fewer
> subsequent problems in windows then.
>
this probably was already mentioned but i would defragment windows first. As it
doesn't need to fragment in ubuntu i o
On 14/05/12 13:41, Liam Proven wrote:
That is true and correct, AFAICS, but to be honest, it would probably
be easier just to reinstall. Norman: at a minimum, you need 2
partitions. I suggest you shrink the Windows partition by about half
and use the rest of the space for an Extended partition.
On 13 May 2012 21:20, Barry Drake wrote:
> 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 w
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 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
> > 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
On 12/05/12 21:04, Norman Silverstone wrote:
Andy, all I know is that if there is one drive and the
installer is
instructed to install along side Windows, then the installer
partitions
the drive accordingly and gets on with the installation. So,
On 12/05/12 18:39, Norman Silverstone wrote:
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. Norman
Got a lot to d
>
> Andy, all I know is that if there is one drive and the
> installer is
> instructed to install along side Windows, then the installer
> partitions
> the drive accordingly and gets on with the installation. So,
> are you
> suggesti
On 12 May 2012 19:42, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Braben wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install
> > Windows and
> > > > Ubuntu on o
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Braben wrote:
>
>
> On 12 May 2012 18:39, 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
>
On 12 May 2012 18:39, 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
> > 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 with a machine with 2 drives and there
On 12/05/12 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 with a ma
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 with a machine with 2 drives and there are
problems. Ins
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