On 13 May 2012 21:20, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com 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
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
On 14 May 2012 18:13, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com 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
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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On 14 May 2012 20:41, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org 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,
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 afternoon
On 12 May 2012 17:38, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org 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
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, so very
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.
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! Fire it up
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
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 was
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
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.
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
On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org 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
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Braben wrote:
On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org
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 19:42, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:47 +0100, Andy Braben wrote:
On 12 May 2012 18:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org
wrote:
I have a new PC with two HDDs and I am trying to install
Windows and
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
On 12/05/12 21:04, Norman Silverstone wrote:
big snip
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
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